Since college, I’ve had the strong intuition that beer played a role in building the foundations of human society. Finally a little scientific corroboration. Wine is fine, but brew was the glue!
A few more beer factoids:
- Beer is likely the first alcoholic beverage created by man
- Beer is the most consumed alcoholic beverage in the world
- Beer is the third most consumed beverage overall in the world (behind water and tea). I’ll never understand why people prefer such bland libations to the masterpiece that is beer.
- The Czech republic is the country with the world’s highest beer consumption by a pretty good margin. Unfortunately, beer consumption in Germany is falling.
By the way, the last link is to The Economist, by far the finest news magazine (or “newspaper” as they refer to themselves) I’ve ever read. If you haven’t ever checked it out, you should.
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