19 Facts That Might Get You Drunk

    Cheers.

    1. Chinese brand Snow is the most sold beer in the world.

    2. This fried beer (???) won "Most Creative" at the 2010 Texas State Fair.

    3. An estimated 162,719 pints of Guinness are "lost" to mustaches in the UK every year.

    4. Somebody paid $5,000 for a 140-year-old bottle of beer.

    5. Tennessee has the highest beer tax of any state ($1.29/gallon) while Wyoming has the lowest ($.02/gallon).

    6. New Hampshire residents consume the most beer per capita of any state.

    7. Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the United States.

    8. The world's strongest beer is 67.5% alcohol.

    9. In Russia, beer wasn't classified as alcoholic drink until 2013.

    10. In parts of Africa people drink beer made from fermented bananas.

    11. And Nigeria actually drinks more Guinness than Ireland.

    12. There's a crater on the moon named "Beer".

    13. After winning the Nobel prize for physics, Niels Bohr received an even better gift: a house with beer piped directly in from the Carlsberg brewery.

    14. There's a brewery in Austria where you can literally bathe in beer.

    15. There are McDonald's that sell beer in Germany, France, Portugal, and South Korea.

    16. The first canned beer was sold in 1935.

    17. Beer cans in Japan say "alcohol" in Braille on top.

    18. In 1814 a 15-foot wave of beer flooded nearby houses and killed eight people in London.

    19. And in Norway, a drunk guy once hijacked a plane, but surrendered in exchange for more beer.