Enjoy your beer in Moderation
Medical researchers generally describe moderation as one to three drinks per day. It appears that consuming less than about half a drink per day is associated with only very small health benefits.
A drink is a 12 ounce can or bottle of beer, a five ounce glass of wine, or 1.5 ounces of liquor
Don't drink on an empty stomach, foods with fats and/or proteins slow alcohol absorption
Pace your drinking, allow time between drinks.
Its the law
Be aware of the local drinking laws.
Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri. The legal age of drinking varies from state to state , province to province, country to country. Never drink and drive.
To a breathalyzer, beer , wine and hard liquor they are all the same.
Fun Facts
Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase " The Rule of the Thumb"
In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at themto mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get "mind your own P's and Q's".
Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of their beer mugs or ceremic/glass cups. The whistle was used to order services. Thus we get the phrase, "wet your whistle".
It was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know to day as the "Honey moon"
The actual Star Spangled Banner ( Flag of the USA ), was sewn in a local Baltimore area brewery. The year 1812. The seamstress was Mary Young Pickersgill and her 13 year old daughter named Caroline. When the flag became too big to continue sewing at her home, Mary finished the project by laying the flag on the basement floor of Claggett's Brewery
Believe it or Not
Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of their beer mugs or ceremic/glass cups. The whistle was used to order services. Thus we get the phrase, "wet your whistle".
Beer contains no fat and no cholesterol.
Historians have called beer the national drink of ancient Egypt. The pharoahs appointed a "royal chief beer inspector" to protect its quality.
