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Beer Trivia & Jokes

             Beer Drinkers Fault-Finding Guide

Symptom: Drinking fails to give satisfaction; shirt front is wet.
Fault: Mouth not open or glass being applied to wrong part of face.
Solution: Buy another pint and practice in front of a mirror.

Symptom: Drinking fails to give satisfaction; beer is unusually pale.
Fault: Glass is empty.
Solution: Find someone who will buy you another pint.

Symptom: Feet cold and wet.
Fault: Glass being held at incorrect angle.
Solution: Turn glass so that open end is pointing at ceiling.

Symptom: Feet warm and wet.
Fault: Loss of self-control.
Solution: Go and stand beside nearest dog; complain to its owner about its lack of house-training.

Symptom: Bar blurred.
Fault: You are looking through the bottom of empty glass.
Solution: Find someone who will buy you another pint.

Symptom: Bar moving.
Fault :You are being carried out.
Solution: Find out if you are being taken to another bar; if not, complain you are being hi-jacked.

Symptom: The opposite wall is covered with ceiling tiles and lights.
Fault: You have fallen over backwards.
Solution: If glass is still full, and nobody is standing on your drinking arm, stay put. If not, get someone to lift you up and lash you to the bar.

Symptom: Everything is dim; mouth full of teeth and dog-ends.
Fault: You have fallen over forwards.
Solution: Same as for falling over backwards.

Symptom: Vision flashing on and off; ringing in ears.
Fault: The pub is closing.
Solution: PANIC !!!!
 

What is the Most Expensive Beer in the World?
Answer:  It’s 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.

What country has the most individual beer brands?
Answer:  That would be Belgium, with 400.

From what part of brewing did the term “rule of thumb” originate?
Answer:  before the advent of thermometers, brewers tested the temperature of their maturing brews with their thumbs:  too cold, and the yeast wouldn’t grow, too hot, and it would die.

Who was the first American to brew lager type beer?
Answer: The first US lager was brewed in 1840 by John Wagner, who had a small brewery in the back of his house on St. John Street in Philadelphia. Wagner brought the first lager yeast to the United States from a brewery in Bavaria.

What is Cenosillicaphobia the fear of?
Answer:  Fear of an empty glass

What is brew master in Latin?
Answer:  braxator

Explain the roots of the Scandinavian toast, sköl.
Answer: The familiar Scandinavian toast sköl derives from scole, the drinking bowl shaped like the upper half of a human skull. Originally, these bowls were fashioned from the actual skulls of enemy killed in battle.

What king is known as the "patron saint of beer?"
Answer:  King Gambrinus (not to be confused with St. Arnold, the patron saint of brewing).

What was the length of Prohibition?
Answer:  Prohibition lasted 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, 32 1/2 minutes

What is the best selling brand in the Western Hemisphere outside of the United States? What country is it brewed in?
Answer: Brahma Beer. It is brewed in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 
 

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