Beer Trivia

You can use the following beer trivia in a number of ways.  Use it as a beer-party game to get people’s mouth watering in anticipation of another great beer you’re about to tap from your Beer Machine.  Show your dominance in the world of beer-knowledge and slam your friends.  Or, spark the interest of your local beer-brewing club.  Beer trivia is fun…because it’s about BEER! But we didn't need to tell YOU that... did we?

What is the Most Expensive Beer in the World?

Answer:  It’s called “Tutankhamen” and is prepared according to the recipe recovered by a group of University of Cambridge archaeologists in Queen Nefertiti’s Temple of the Sun in Egypt. It costs US $52 a bottle, and is produced in limited and numbered edition.

What country has the most individual beer brands?

Answer:  That would be Belgium, with 400.

From what part of brewing did the term “rule of thumb” originate?

Answer:  before the advent of thermometers, brewers tested the temperature of their maturing brews with their thumbs:  too cold, and the yeast wouldn’t grow, too hot, and it would die.

Who was the first American to brew lager type beer?

Answer: The first US lager was brewed in 1840 by John Wagner, who had a small brewery in the back of his house on St. John Street in Philadelphia. Wagner brought the first lager yeast to the United States from a brewery in Bavaria.

What is Cenosillicaphobia the fear of?

Answer:  Fear of an empty glass

What is brew master in Latin?

Answer:  braxator

Explain the roots of the Scandinavian toast, sköl.

Answer: The familiar Scandinavian toast sköl derives from scole, the drinking bowl shaped like the upper half of a human skull. Originally, these bowls were fashioned from the actual skulls of enemy killed in battle.

What king is known as the "patron saint of beer?"

Answer:  King Gambrinus (not to be confused with St. Arnold, the patron saint of brewing).

What was the length of Prohibition? 

Answer:  Prohibition lasted 13 years, 10 months, 19 days, 17 hours, 32 1/2 minutes

What is the best selling brand in the Western Hemisphere outside of the United States? What country is it brewed in?

Answer: Brahma Beer. It is brewed in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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