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Do you love beer? How much do you know about beer?

It seems like there is always that guy in the bar that has a crazy story about the beer he’s drinking. The worst part, sometimes its believable, so you tell someone, then they tell someone, and thats a beer myth. Here are ten of the more outrageous myths about beer and what you need to know to set that guy in the bar straight.

Beer Myth 1: Beat the Beer Belly with Light Beer

OK, light beers have maybe 90-100 calories, regular beers generally have less than 200 calories. A beer lover would say the difference is comparable to the difference between McDonalds and a 5 star restaurant. A dietician would tell you the difference is negligible. So unless you are drinking 300 beers a week, I would drink the good stuff.

Beer Myth 2: The darker the beer, the more alcohol it contains

Not even close. Guinness is black, and has 4.2% alcohol. The color of a beer comes from the toasted malts, which has no effect on alcohol content. Ingredients like rice syrup, honey, and corn syrup add alcohol to beer, but do not influence the color.

Beer Myth 3: Beer is ruined if warmed and then refrigerated

This can be true, if you do it many, many times, and it will happen gradually. People think re-chilling beer will cause it to be “skunked”. Beer can be ruined by air, light and time. Temperature won’t ruin a beer unless it’s extreme. Get fresh beer and store it in dark place, and it will be fine.

Beer Myth 4: Imported beers have more alcohol than domestic beers

This comes from the way US beers reported their beers’ alcohol content. The rest of the world uses “Alcohol by Volume”, here is the US they used “Alcohol By Weight”. Since beer weighs less than water, US beers had smaller numbers, but not less alcohol.

Beer Myth 5: The Guinness they serve in Ireland is better

It seems widely accepted that beer in “the old country” is better than what they export to the rest of the world. The brewing process is cheap, so why would a brewery risk their reputation by brewing a different beer for export? It doesn’t make sense, and it’s not true. With few exceptions, the beer that is exported is the exact same beer that they serve in the bar across the street from the brewery. The difference is purely freshness. It takes two weeks for a keg of Guinness to get from Dublin to your favorite bar in the states. Some beers, like Fosters, is brewed in Canada under a license for sale in the US. But it is clearly stated on the bottle when this is the case.

Beer Myth 6: Beer shouldn’t be Bitter

The bitterness of a beer comes from the hops. Hops are in all beers to balance the sweet malts and to act as a preservative. Some beers have a lot of hops, like India Pale Ales (IPAs) and some beers have less hops, like Wheat Beers. Hops can give a beer complexity and add all sorts of flavors and aromas, like pine, citrus, and earthiness. Hops are why people say beer is an acquired taste, but they also make beer delicious.

Beer Myth 7: The best beers are in green bottles.

As it turns out, brown bottles protect the beer from the light much better than green bottles or clear bottles. This myth comes from when there was a shortage of brown glass in Europe after WWII. The European beers were bottled in green instead, so green bottles came to represent imports. This certainly isn’t the case anymore.

Beer Myth 8: The Thai beer Singha has formaldehyde in it

It seems widely believed that Singha is brewed with formaldehyde, as is Chang beer, San Miguel, Vietnamese 33, and Singapore’s Tiger Beer. The most believable explanation for this one is that Singha is much more bitter and contains more alcohol than most lagers. When American or British expatriots and soldiers were drinking beer in Thailand, they got drunk much more quickly then they were used to, and it was much more bitter flavor then they were used to. To explain this it was suggested that it contained formaldehyde. Crazy.

Beer Myth 9: Corona is Mexican Piss

In the 1980s there was a rumor that Mexican workers were peeing in the Corona tanks that were destined for the US. Certainly alarmingly disgusting… if true. As it turns out this myth was started as a result of Corona’s rising popularity in the US market, and who was jealous? Heineken. This was nothing more than a rumor started by a Heineken wholesaler in Reno. It all worked out, the guy from Heineken admitted his wrongdoing, and Corona continued it’s rise to popularity. But the rumor can still be heard today in bars across the country.

Beer Myth 10: Women don’t like beer

Thats crazy! My wife loves beer almost as much as I do. Women have brewed more beer than men in the history of beer. Sister Doris in Bavaria brews Mallersdorf lager. Fortunately, this myth is far from true.

Ok so in LA gas runs about $4.10 per gallon and there are about 128 oz in a gallon. So a six pack coast about $7.50 and there is 72 oz in the six pack, that means gas is still cheaper then beer in Los Angeles. I wish i lived in Indianapolis.

An Irishman’s been drinking at a pub all night. The bartender finally says that the bar is closing. So the Irishman stands up to leave and falls flat on his face. He tries to stand one more time, same result. He figures he’ll crawl outside and get some fresh air and maybe that will sober him up. 

Once outside he stands up and falls flat on his face. So he decides to crawl the 4 blocks to his home and when he arrives at the door he stands up and falls flat on his face. He crawls through the door into his bedroom. When he reaches his bed he tries one more time to stand up. This time he manages to pull himself upright but he quickly falls right into bed and is sound asleep as soon as his head hits the pillow. He awakens the next morning to his wife standing over him shouting at him. 

“So, you’ve been out drinking again!!”
“What makes you say that?” He asks as he puts on an innocent look.
“The pub called, you left your wheelchair there again.”

So after reading the comment that Samuel Johnson left me stating that these facts were incorrect i decided to look into them further. I copied and pasted these fun beer facts so there was a big chance that they were false here is what i found on these so called facts:

About 4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the “honey month” or what we know to day as the “Honey moon”

I did not find much on the origin of “Honey Moon” but I will keep looking and will update the post.

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Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase ” The Rule of the Thumb”

The earliest citation of “The Rule of the Thumb” comes from Sir William Hope’s The Compleat Fencing-Master, second edition, 1692, page 157: “What he doth, he doth by rule of thumb, and not by art.” The term is thought to originate with wood workers who used the length of their thumbs rather than rulers for measuring things. Making this fact FALSE.

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In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at themto mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get “mind your own P’s and Q’s”.

With this fact there was a lot of results such as: a dancing-master’s instruction to “mind your pieds et queues [i.e. feet and pigtails]” and a school-teacher’s encouragement to pupils who are learning to write. I find this fact to be FALSE

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After consuming a vibrant brew called Aul or Ale, the Vikings would go fearlessly to the battlefield, without their armour, or even their shirts. The “Berserk” means “bear shirt” in norse, and eventually to the meaning of wild battles.

I did not find anything about Vikings and Ale but I will keep looking and will update the post.

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Way down in 1740, the Admiral Vernon of the British fleet decided to water down the navy’s rum, which naturally, the sailors weren’t pleased with. They nicknamed the Admiral Old Grog, after the still stiff grogram coats he used to wear. The term grog soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you are drunk on this this grog, you are “groggy”, a word still in use.

This is directly out of a wikipedia search: His enduring claim to fame was his 1740 order that his sailors’ rum should be diluted with water. The rest of the Royal Navy rapidly followed his lead, supposedly calling the new drink “grog” after Vernon’s nickname “Old Grog”. This nickname has been attributed to his habitual wearing of a grogram coat. Making this fact TRUE.

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Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of their beer mugs or ceremic/glass cups. The whistle was used to order services. Thus we get the phrase, “wet your whistle”.

As far as i know a cup such as this does not exist. I could not find any picture anywhere all I found was that “whistle” has been used as a slang term for the throat. So i think this fact is FALSE.

Blue Moon is available in bottles and kegs. The brew has 171 calories per 12-ounce serving and 5.4 percent alcohol by volume. However, in Minnesota, Oklahoma, Colorado and Utah, the alcohol content of all Blue Moon beers is 5.4% alcohol by weight.

Ah Blue Moon, this is truly one of the best beers i have ever tasted. This Belgian white ale has a incredibly smooth taste does not leave any foul after taste, so good it can be drank warm. In a bottle or on tap its a wonderful tasting beer.

My cousins were the first to tell me about blue moon but i payed no attention, that was my first mistake, as time went by they would talk about there bar encounters and how they were drinking blue moon. Even at random moments where there was no drinking involved one of them would mention how a blue moon would be perfect to drink right now and the others would all agree, I had to find out more. The liquor store next to my work is full of great imported beer so i knew that they had to have it. i bought a case of blue moon for 18 bucks witch I found kind of expensive but laziness did not let me go shop around for a better price. when i got home my wife and I had our first taste.

Well now my wife’s first choice of beer is always a blue moon. The other night me and my wife had this huge argument not sure of the reasons anymore but we definitely needed to chill out and talk about it. So i left the kid at my mother in-laws house and found a T.G.I.F. luckily for me the had blue moon on tap, I strongly believe that Blue moon saved my marriage that night.

So i was googling “best selling beer” and a lot of post were saying the Budweiser heres an example:

“Brewed and sold since 1876, “The King of Beers” is the largest-selling beer in the world. Budweiser has been the world’s best-selling beer since 1957, and is distributed in more than 70 countries. Budweiser leads the U.S. premium beer category, outselling all other domestic premium beers combined. In fact, one in almost every five beers sold in the United States today is a Budweiser.”

I think this is the stupidest thing i ever read. Budweiser is the last choice in my beer list. the only times I have ever drank it is if i was too drunk to notice, if i was at some lame dudes party and thats all he had after 2am, or maybe if my dad had one and I stool it from hime to drink when i knew nothing about beer.

King of beers my ass i would trade a 6 pack of Budweiser for one Pyramid Hef. i haven’t meet someone who really enjoys drinking Budweiser yet but i sure have a lot of questions to ask him/her and some sense to knock into him. Well this is only my opinion what does everyone else think i want to know?

This Girl has the right Idea. Women and Beer a Beautiful combination.

A couple days a go a few of us went to have some drinks. We drank beer, Jagger shot, beer, Jagger shot…etc. Needless to say that at the end of the night we were all pretty F’ed up. The drive home was a bitch, I could barely keep my car in my lane…and I had to pee like a race horse.

I got home, somehow managed to back my car into the garage, even with another car already in there. I seriously don’t know how I managed to not scratch the hell out of my car. Then I had to walk(stumble) to my front door, when I got to the grass I tripped and fell on my face. After some cursing I tried getting up, only to fall back down again on my back. At this point i’m in the fukitall mood and decide my lawn is as good as my bed for sleeping.

I don’t know how long I was out, but a friend called to see if I got home safely, and that woke me up. Making it to my front door still seemed like a mission, so Ilayed there a while longer until my neighbor came out and saw me there. Being a concerned neighbor he asked me if I was drunk, I said yes, and he said “Alright then, see you later” and walked away.

And yes, I eventually did go inside to sleep. I still had to work the next morning.