Dozens of interesting facts about beer

(prHWY.com) June 8, 2012 - New York, NY -- Do you know, that:
1 In old times In Egupts beer was for kids and adults alike...The Egyptians called beer Heqet or Hekt.
2. The Babylonians (circa 1800 B.C.) had more than 20 different beer sorts according to clay tablet prescriptions found by archeologists in northern Syria.
3. In A. D. 1200, in Europe people baptized kids with beer tours.
4. In the Middle Ages, people was thinking that beer is much useful that water and nobody wanted to drink the polluted water.

5. IN the 1600's, midwives created "Groaning Ale." It was a special strong beer meant to ease the pain of childbirth. It was also often used to bathe the newborn (since it was likely cleaner than the water available at the time).
6. In 1774, The British scientist Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen after pondering the source of the bubbles rising from a vat of beer.

7. First known brew house in America called Block and Christiansen, and it opened in 1612 in New Amsterdam (which became the lower part of Manhattan, New York). And in the brew house, the first American non-native born. His name was Jean Vigne, and he grew up to become a brewer
8. In 1809, U.S. President James Madison tried to establish a National Brewery. He also tried to create a position on his cabinet for a Secretary of Beer. Both efforts failed unfortunately.
9. Kidsbeer, a Japanese soft drink bottled and formulated to look like beer, may soon be available throughout Europe, but watchdogs of underage drinking say they will fight any effort to ship it to the United States.
10. Vikings were likes beers so much, that could stop mid-battle for a beer break, drink huge quantities of beer trips.
11. The term "honeymoon" is connected to beer. In ancient Babylonia, the father of the bride would gift the groom a month's supply of mead, which is a honey beer. This month long beer session came to be known as the honey month and that morphed into the term "honeymoon."
12.In 1943, World War II,all US brewers allocated 15 percent of their beer production for military use.
13. In 2003, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) lobbied Wisconsin Governer Jim Doyle to change Wisconsin's official beverage from milk to beer. PETA argued that beer is healthier than milk - PETA claiming that milk is linked to heart disease, cancer, allergies, diabetes, and obesity.

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