This infographic was designed for WearYourBeer.com to educate beer drinkers {or non} about the history of beer.

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THINGS
YOU DIDN’T
KNOW ABOUT
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ZYTHOLOGY
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“Beer is
proof
that God
loves us.”
The study of beer and beer
making, including the role
particular ingredients play in
the brewing process.
–Ben Franklin
The oldest written recipes
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ever discovered by human beings are for
making beer—written on stone tablets over
over 5,000 years ago,
in the form of songs.
Oldest beer ad on a
clay tablet— 4000 BC
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adorned with a large-breasted
woman holding two goblets and
is inscribed with the caption
“Drink Ebla Beer – the beer
with the heart of a lion!”
Drink Ebl
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a Be
er
The first professional brewers were all
WOMEN
2000 BC – the first
recorded drunk
driving incident.
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HOPS
In ancient Egypt, an inebriated
charioteer is apprehended after
running down a vestal virgin of the
goddess Hathor. The culprit is
crucified on the door of the tavern
that sold him the beer, and his
corpse allowed to hang there until
scavengers reduce it to bones.
used in beer
are in the
same family of
flowering
plants as
Marijuana.
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Beer gone bad.
When British brewers tried to send
their pale ales over to India, the beer
would go bad during the long ocean
voyage. Beer makers began to add
extra alcohol and hops to help with
the preservation. This inadvertently
created a new style of extra bitter,
extra powerful beers called India
Pale Ales (IPAs).
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There are 400
types of beer.
Belgium has the most individual
beer brands in the world.
CENOSILLICAPHOBIA
is the fear of an empty beer glass
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$1,0
PER
B OT
12
00
TLE
More beer
please!
The agriculture revolution
was started because
people needed a way to
make more beer. This led
to inventions such as the
plow, wheel, and
irrigation systems.
Most
expensive beer:
Vielle Bon Secours.
This beer is so expensive
that it is only sold in one
bar, Bierdrome, in London.
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Beer made with spit:
Ancient Incan girls age 8-10 would chew corn into a pulp like
consistency in their mouths, then spit the pulp out into huge
vats of warm water to sit for several weeks. The viscous,
cloudy, lumpy spit filled mixture would be later strained.
The oldest
claimed
functional
brewery
in the world:
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Bayerische Staatsbrauerie
Weihenstephan near Munich,
founded more than nine centuries
ago in the year 1040.
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Beer for health.
Beer contains almost all of the minerals we need to survive.
It was a staple of many diets during the European Middle
Ages, when good nutrition was rare. You
drank beer to survive.
Drinking wasn’t just for
adults. Children also
consumed beer as a
source of energy and
nutrients.
Beer makes you smarter.
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A study in the New England Journal
of Medicine found that women who
drank moderately had better
cognitive function compared to
non-drinkers.
Researchers pointed out that
alcohol raises HDL cholesterol
(that’s the good cholesterol),
which is associated with a lower
risk of heart disease and better
cognitive functioning.
Beer prevents
kidney stones.
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A study published in American
Journal of Epidemiology found
that “beer consumption was
inversely associated with risk of
kidney stones (in middle aged
men). Each bottle of beer
consumed per day was estimated
to reduce risk by 40%.”
40%
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Beer strengthens
your bones.
According to a study published in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
beer “protects bone-mineral density
because of its high levels of silicon. This
allows the deposit of calcium and other
minerals into bone tissue.
6
mgs
per
liter
Women and beer.
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BREWS
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TE
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Historically, brewing beer was
considered a very important
and noble task for women. In
ancient Peru, the breweries
were staffed by women of the
elite. The women had to be
of noble birth or extremely
beautiful. “Brewster” is the
correct term for a woman
who brews beer.
In the 19th century, nursing
mothers in Munich, Germany
would drink up to 7 pints of
beer a day under the belief
that this was required in order
to breast-feed their children.
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In ancient Egypt
there was a written
law that prevented
men from selling
and making beer.
DRINK
BEER
EVERY
Don’t forget!
Drink your daily
ration of beer!
DAY
One of the oldest laws in the
world to be passed is related
to beer. Babylonian King Hummurabi
decreed that each person was to have a daily ration
of beer, determined by their social status.
He then went onto say that women would be drowned if
they served bad beer.
Hectoliters
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Czech
Republic
China
USA
Per Capita
6 pack to go
Thirsty China.
The Czech Republic drinks
more beer per capita than any
other country. For the past
two years, China drinks more
beer than any other country
(350 million hectoliters).
China is the fastest growing
beer market in the world. The
United States ranks number
two by amount, but ranks 11
per capita.
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The first beer cans were
produced in 1935. Drinkers
were no longer going to
taverns, and breweries
needed to get beer into the
homes. The smaller packages
made it much easier to get
beer home.
BEER BEER BEER
BEER BEER BEER
Sources:
http://www.mandatory.com/2012/02/28/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-beer/8
http://www.beertruth.com/5-weird-things-you-probably-dont-know-about-beer/
http://weirdfacts.com/fun-facts-a-stuff/3271-beer-facts-a-quotes.html
http://life.dailyburn.com/lifestyle/5-weird-health-facts-about-beer/
http://www.health24.com/Man/Social_addictions/748-767-3072,58320.asp
http://voices.yahoo.com/strange-beer-facts-2462296.html
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/restaurants/libations/sfl-mark-cheers-beer-facts,0,2993075.htmlpage
http://www.fermentarium.com/random-news/15-beer-factoids-that-will-make-you-look-smart/
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa041152#t=articleResults
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/150/2/187.full.pdf
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/89/4/1188
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich
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