Beer and Homebrewing - Four Fun Facts

If you're like most people, you probably love trivia.run out of their homebrew beer, maybe there
Come on - admit it. At some point or another nearlywouldn't be an American Beer Month at all.
every one of us has played a game of Trivial PursuitDid you know that over 30,000 people visit Denver
at a party or watched Jeopardy on television. Soeach Fall for "The Great American Beer Festival"?
how would you like to know a few fun facts aboutWhat's to do at such a festival? Well, by now I am
beer and homebrewing?sure that you can guess: you can talk about beer,
We all know about how the pilgrims landed ondrink beer, learn about homebrew beer, and you can
Plymouth Rock. But did you know that the pilgrimseven try a few kinds of homebrew beer.
stopped where they did because they had run out ofSurely you know that beer (homebrew and store
beer? If they still had beer on board, the pilgrimsbought) is not solely an American tradition. But did
probably would have kept sailing South (toyou know that rules and regulations about beer go
somewhere warmer). If the pilgrims had moreback to ancient times? In fact, in Babylonia there was
homebrew beer on board, the world (or at leasta law that prevented bars from serving watered
North America and the United States) may havedown beer. Now if you love beer, you know how
been a different place today.disappointing a watered-down beer can be. But the
Did you know that July is officially "American Beerpunishment for serving watered-down beer in
Month"? When you stop to think about it -- whatBabylonia was that the bartender was drowned in a
with the Fourth of July, summer barbeques, andbarrel of the watered-down brew. That's a serious
plenty of ballgames -- having July as American Beerpunishment!
Month makes a lot of sense. But if the pilgrims hadn't