Monday, December 7, 2009

-----Beer Week: Fun Facts-------------------------------------

Some interesting facts about alcohol & beer to start us off this week:

The soil of one of the vineyards in France is considered so precious that it is mandatory for workers to scrape the soil off their shoes before they leave.

Anyone under the age of 21 should be careful of taking out trash bags in Missouri. If you are under 21 and the garbage contains an empty bottle of alcohol, you can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol.

Here is a little surprise : The national anthem of United States “The Star Spangled Banner,” was written to the tune of a drinking song.

Although “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” is considered to be the shortest sentence that includes all the letters of the alphabet, alcohol lovers came up with one of their own “Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.”

The longest permanent bar is 405 feet and 10 inches. It is located in Ohio. Some suggest that the longest bar is in Illinois which is 684 feet. (Put-In-Bay at the Beer Barrel Saloon.)

The world’s oldest known recipe is for beer.

It is estimated that there are 49,000,000 (forty-nine million) bubbles in a bottle of champagne.

It is illegal to feed alcohol to Moose in Alaska and fish in Ohio.

The BATF (Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms) prohibits the use of word “refreshing” to describe any alcoholic beverage.

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