| Everyone loves trivia. Whether watching Jeopardy, | | | | and did not travel south to warmer climates is simply |
| reading a homebrewing guide, or playing Trivial | | | | because they ran out of beer! Just think: If they had |
| Pursuit, we all love answering those little-known | | | | brought more homebrew with a homebrewing guide, |
| questions and impressing those around us. | | | | we may never have had a Thanksgiving! |
| And here's five little known interesting facts on our | | | | On the other hand, Americans would not celebrate |
| beverage of choice: good, refreshing beer! | | | | our independence during July 4th - and this would also |
| To begin with, have you ever had the unfortunate | | | | mean that July would not be known as "American |
| luck of being served a watered-down beer? Didn't | | | | Beer Month" - I mean, what's more American than |
| that just burn you up? Well, back in ancient Babylonia | | | | drinking homebrew with our best buds? |
| around 1750 B.C., a law was passed that if a barkeep | | | | If you didn't know about that, though, then you |
| gave a watered down beer to a patron, the owner | | | | probably didn't know that later on in the fall, down in |
| would be drowned in his own offending brew. Now I | | | | Denver, Colorado, there is a huge celebration called |
| call that justice! | | | | "The Great American Beer Festival." Every year over |
| Also, most of us know the story of the pilgrims | | | | thirty thousand people come to drink beer, share |
| landing at Plymouth Rock. But here's something to | | | | their own homebrews, and just enjoy themselves |
| impress your history-loving friends with next time | | | | with other beer lovers. |
| you're out: The big reason the pilgrims stopped there | | | | |
