"25 Interesting Beer Facts"

"9 Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty beer glass. Terrifying phobia indeed."

I wonder if health insurance will cover this malady?

 

Ok, so a lot of that information I already knew and learned in The Brewmaster's Table by Brooklyn Brewery's Brewmaster Garret Oliver. Great read; should be mandatory for everyone who enjoys craft beer. I'm on my second go around with it now.

 

I'm surprised more people drink beer than coffee. I find that hard to believe.

 

I have a lot of trouble believing number 22. I haven't read the whole list yet. I believe an average commercial fermentation tank holds about 2500 gallons of beer. So 400,000 gallons would be 160 modern fermentation tanks. At what point in history did they brew in tanks 160 times as big as the tanks that modern engineering can produce?????

 

# 20 is just a misunderstanding of physics by a layperson

 

#14 is wrong.

The collaboration beer between Tenaya Creek and the Brew Dog cofounders was sold for $2,650, breaking the current beer auction record of $2,368! The beer was purchased by local residents, and Barley’s Angels members, Rose Signor, Jen Kleinbeck, and Tori Bender.

 

me too

 

Wow, #25: Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer. This is absolutely mind bending, and definitely interests me most.

It's completely fucking brutal on one hand; they're encouraging, condoning, and full-on enabling alcoholics... c'mon, man. Alcoholism is a serious, life/health threatening condition and they're basically using alcoholics for cheap labor. Then just throw some tobacco to smoke on top of that. If you don't see how that's a problem, you have no heart.

It kind of makes sense on the other hand, albeit cold, cold logic; they're paying people in goods and money for services rendered, people that may not even have a job otherwise; furthermore, the service of keeping the city clean is beneficial to all, and typically the exact opposite of what stinking, drunk deadbeats tend to do to cities!

I'm not sure if these guys are genius and have it all figured out, or if they're just assholes. I'm thinking a little of both.

 

I see whatcha did there....and I like it!

 

That was about the extent of it. Any flavoring it may have had came from herbs not named humulus lup-whatever. It probably more closely resembled a gruit or a medieval small beer.

 

Yes, it's correct-- network TV in the US cannot have ads that show actual alcohol consumption...the restriction is pretty lame though, because it's perfectly ok to have an ad showing people at a bar ordering beer, holding beer, and pouring beer...just can't show the beer-to-lips shot. It's also silly, because there is no such restriction on TV shows, only the ads.

I'm not sure if the regulations also extend to cable TV ads or not, or if there are any late-night allowances built in (other content restrictions will sometimes only apply before 10pm, or 9pm).

 

I've never had it, but does this come close to what you're thinking of?
Ta Henket
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/64/64604/

 

Actually more, there were huge vats in the past, Meux had a wooden vat seventy six feet in diameter holding 20,000 british barrels of porter or the equivalent of over 700,000 US gallons. They were for secondary, perhaps primary fermentors were much less


http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/so-what-really-happened-on-october-17-1814/


Also we have much bigger vats now, I think Strongbow has one that that holds around 18 million US gallons.

 

Modern engineering can make some big tanks. Sierra Nevada put in some 1600 bbl fermenters at the NC brewery.
These are pretty big, about 45000 US gallons. As you can see transportation is the limiting factor in going big .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Beer_Flood

One could build the tanks in place and get much bigger - this is done in the oil and gas industry. There come a point where a huge tank would not be filled in a timely fashion by the brew house.

 

The brewsters thing is correct, at least in medieval Europe. But they didn't have to be pretty; I'm assuming that's just a lame joke.