https://www.factretriever.com/beer-facts<br /><br /><br />10 Delicious Facts about Beer<br /><br />Did you know that the Sumerians had a goddess of beer? Or that the ancient Egyptians used it as currency? Our facts about beer will leave you a bit tipsy.<br /><br />1. Beer is the third-most popular drink in the world, after water and tea. In 2016, people worldwide consumed 50 billion gallons of beer.<br /><br />2. The brewing and consumption of beer predate written language.<br />Photo Credit: Wellcome Images / Wikimedia Commons<br /><br />3. Rogue Ales, an Oregon brewery, created a "Beard Beer" using yeast grown in their brewmaster's beard.<br /><br />4. When Danish physicist Niels Bohr won the Nobel Prize, the Carlsberg brewing company gave him a house with a direct pipeline to the brewery and free beer for life.<br /><br />5. A government-funded organization in Amsterdam, the Rainbow Group, hires alcoholics to clean litter from city streets and pays them with beer.<br />Photo Credit: nwbob / Getty Images<br /><br />7. Ancient Egyptians drank beer constantly, as it was safer than Nile water. They also used beer as an enema and douche.<br /><br />8. In 2001, some Belgian elementary schools began serving low-alcohol beer to schoolchildren at lunch as a healthier alternative to soda.<br /><br />9. In 1983, there were 49 licensed breweries in the United States. By the end of 2017, there were 8,863.<br /><br />10. In Medieval Europe, some Catholic monks would undergo "beer fasts" during the forty days of Lent, imbibing only water and beer, which they called "liquid bread."<br /><br />Check out more interesting beer facts here: https://www.factretriever.com/beer-facts<br /><br />FactRetriever is a leading producer of the most interesting facts, online video content, and a plethora of fascinating topics. <br />
