Make new friends and impress the random, with these astounding beer factoids that are sure to rock their world – like the fact that beer might actually prevent kidney stones!

Amsterdam Had A Program That Paid Alcoholics With Beer – We’re not sure if this is still going on, and given the international uproar it generated, we doubt it…But back in 2013, a government-funded organization
introduced a program where local alcoholics received 10 Euros, half a packet of rolling tobacco and 5 beers as payment for cleaning the city’s streets. Sounds like a truly Bad Idea in Brewing to us!

Brewing Beer Is A Really Ancient Activity – One of the world’s oldest prepared beverages, beer is nowthought to date back to the Neolithic period…That’s 9500 BC!

Beer Bubbles Take a Circuitous Route In Your Mug– Stanford researchers have discovered that a beer bubble’s journey in your glass is not as direct as once thought. It now appears that beer bubbles follow circular pattern, rising up the center of the glass (where there’s less resistance) before being crowded to the side and forced down again, creating a gravity defying loop.

Beer Prevents Kidney Stones – Beer… Is there anything it can’t head off? A 1998 study published in American Journal of Epidemiology estimated that a bottle of beer consumed every day reduces the risk of kidney stones by 40%.

Beer Advertising Goes Way Back – The oldest beer ad that we know of was found on a clay tablet dating back to 4000 BC! One of the 1800 Ebla tablets that were discovered in Syria, featured a full-breasted woman holding two goblets and a call to action, “Drink Ebla Beer – the beer with the heart of a lion.”

Beer Was Not Always Brewed To Drink Cold – It’s true! Cold beer was not always the societal preference. Back in the 17th century, warm and malty beverages were considered more healthful and widely consumed in that fashion.