| The Super Bowl and its accompanying camaraderie | | | | was too cold, the yeast wouldn't grow but if it was |
| are just around the corner. It is the perfect time to | | | | too hot, the yeast would die. |
| wow your buddies with Super Bowl trivia, especially | | | | England is the home of the word "toddlers." The |
| that concerning odd pieces of information on that | | | | drinking water was so contaminated that it was |
| great American beverage, beer. | | | | prohibited to be used for that purpose. Beer was |
| The first Super Bowl football championship was | | | | used as a substitute beverage because it was |
| played in 1967, pitting the Green Bay Packers against | | | | inexpensive, abundant, and during the brewing |
| the Kansas City Chiefs. The sports-history breaking | | | | process the water was boiled. Toddlers were being |
| game took place on January 15, 1967, at the Los | | | | weaned off mother's milk and the logical substitution |
| Angeles Memorial Coliseum, following the merger of | | | | was beer. Unfortunately, the children were not |
| the NFL with the fledgling AFL. The AFL, under new | | | | acclimated to the side effects of beer. This, paired |
| Commissioner Al Davis, was well on its way to | | | | with their large motor muscles being unaccustomed |
| bringing the NFL to its knees by signing more and | | | | to supporting their bodies, really demonstrated how |
| more top NFL players away from the NFL, along with | | | | to toddle across the room. |
| top college talent, but AFL team owners, who | | | | Low in vitamins? Beer is loaded with the B-complex |
| dreamt more of being part of the NFL establishment | | | | vitamins. |
| than dominating professional football with their own | | | | It is thought the first beer came into existence from |
| league, accepted the NFL's merger terms, to combine | | | | moist grains sitting around for an extended time. |
| into a single league, with the Super Bowl game to | | | | To remove the head of foam from the top of your |
| decide the league's championship. | | | | beer, stick your fingers in it. If you put salted |
| Ancient Egyptian pyramid builders were partial to | | | | peanuts in a glass of beer, the nuts will dance around. |
| beer, which they usually drank through a straw. The | | | | A person who collects beer mats practices |
| beer's flavor was much like that of Chardonnay. | | | | tegestology while a collector of beer bottles is a |
| Unlike the beer of other countries, American beer is | | | | labeorphilist. |
| made mostly of rice. Rice gives beer a lighter taste | | | | From the 14th to 18th centuries, European and |
| and its use was promoted to appeal to women | | | | American universities provided beer to their students |
| buyers. | | | | from their own in-house breweries. In 1674, not only |
| In 1642, Hoboken, New Jersey was home to | | | | did Harvard have its own brewery but also had five |
| America's first brewery. | | | | beer halls which were burned down by rioting divinity |
| We've all heard of the phrase "rule of thumb." | | | | students. |
| Legend has it that it evolved from the practice of | | | | In the 13th century, it was common practice to use |
| brewers, in the days before the invention of | | | | beer to baptize children. |
| thermometers, would poke a thumb or finger into | | | | It is suspected that Attila the Hun died of suffocation |
| the beer mixture in an attempt to find the most | | | | induced by a bloody nose after passing out from too |
| suitable temperature for adding yeast. If the mixture | | | | much alcohol at his bachelor party. |
