And so the day has come for all and sundry to celebrate Beer, the world's second most favored drink (after tea) at Cafe Des Arts this splendid month of May. We welcome you with open arms to the first of many more superb Beer Carnivals...
The selection of beers includes Sierra, Tusker, Tusker Malt, Heineken, Summit beer, Windhoek, Corona, Carlesburg, to name a few.
On the menu we shall have roasted beef, chicken, and grilled sausages...and all else necessary to accompany an inviting, delicious, smooth, thirst-quenching cold glass of beer.
The UEFA Championship League finals shall be displayed on a larger than life screen, see you then!* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Cafe Des Arts presents to you facts about our beloved beer....
1. Being intoxicated had desirable spiritual significance to the ancient Egyptians. They often gave their children names like "How Drunk is Cheops" or "How Intoxicated is Hathor."
2. There are 19 different versions of Guinness.
3. Among the Abipone people of Paraguay, individuals who abstain from alcohol are thought to be "cowardly, degenerate and stupid."
4. In Kentucky, anyone who has been drinking is considered sober until he or she cannot hold onto the ground.
5. The first beer cans were produced in 1935.
6. The worlds strongest beer is 'Samuel Adams' Triple Bock, which has reached 17% alcohol by volume. To obtain this level, however, they had to use a champagne yeast.
7. Tegestology is what collecting beer mats is called.
8. The oldest known written recipe is for beer.
9. Alcohol is derived for the arabic al kohl, meaning the essence.
10. Among the Bagonda people of Uganda, the several widows of a recently deceased king have the distinctive honor of drinking the beer in which his entrails have been cleaned.
11. To get rid of the foam at the top of beer (the head), stick your fingers in it.
12. Bavaria still defines beer as a staple food.
13. Early recipes for beer included such ingredients as poppy seeds, mushrooms, aromatics, honey, sugar, bay leaves, butter and bread crumbs
14. To keep your beer glass or mug from sticking to your bar napkin, sprinkle a little salt on the napkin before you set your glass down.
15. The longest bar in the world is the 684 foot long New Bulldog in Rock Island, IL.
16. The adulteration of alcohol beverage was punishable by death in medieval Scotland.
17. Tossing salted peanuts in a glass of beer makes the peanuts dance.
18. Chicha, an alcohol beverage which has been made for thousands of years in Central and South America, begins with people chewing grain and spitting into a vat. An enzyme in saliva changes starch in the grain to sugar, which then ferments.
19. The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a recipe for making beer that can be used at home.
20. Beer is a source of B- complex vitamins.
21. If you collect beer bottles your are a labeorphilist.
22. Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as beer drinking vessels
23. The Uape Indians of the upper Amazon in Brazil mix the ashes of their cremated dead with casiri, the local alcohol beverage. All members of the deceased's family, young and old, then drink the beverage with great reverence and fond memories. There's no report of how this might effect the taste.
23. Early Egyptian writings urged mothers to send their children to school with plenty of bread and beer for their lunch.
24. A Chinese imperial edict of about 1,116 B.C. asserted that the use of alcohol in moderation was required by heaven.
25. One glass of milk can give a person a .02 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) on a Breathalyzer test. That’s enough in some American states for persons under age 21 to lose their drivers license and be fined
26. Abraham Lincoln stated that "It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing."
27. If a young Tiriki man offers beer to a woman and she spits some of it into his mouth, they are engaged to be married.
29. Alcohol is considered the only proper payment for teachers among the Lepcha people of Tibet.
30. The Chagga people of Tanganyika believe that a liar will be poisoned if he or she consumes beer mixed with the blood of a recently sacrificed goat.
31. Beer is mixed with saliva and blood for a drink that is shared when two Chagga men become blood brothers.
32. Methyphobia is fear of alcohol
33. The region of the U.S. that consumes the least alcohol (commonly known as the "Bible belt") is also known by many doctors as Stroke Alley
34. In Malaysia, drunk drivers are jailed and so are their spouses.
35. A labeorphilist is a collector of beer bottles.
36. One brand of Chinese beer reportedly includes in its recipe "ground-up dog parts"
37. Texas state law prohibits taking more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
38. Nebraska state law prohibits bars from selling beer unless they are simultaneously brewing a kettle of soup.
39. Ohio state law prohibits getting a fish drunk.
40. Drunk drivers in San Salvador can be punished by death before a firing squad.
41. In Saskatchewan, Canada, it's illegal to drink alcohol while watching exotic dancers.
42. The most expensive beer is called "Tutankhamen” and is prepared according to the recipe recovered by a group of University of Cambridge archaeologists in Queen Nefertiti’s Temple of the Sun in Egypt. It costs US $52 a bottle, and is produced in limited and numbered edition.
43. Cerevisaphile is used to describe anyone that loves beer.
I shall be there!
ReplyDeleteYou'd best be, Sue!!!
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