9 things you didn??™t know about the beer

1. 4 000 years ago in Babylon there was a tradition, according to it during the month after the wedding a bride??™s father was giving his son-in-law to drink to honeyed beer. That is why the first month after the wedding is called the ???honey moon???.

2. Before the thermometers were invented, the brewers were made to put their thumbs into the boiled beer to define the right temperature for barmy adding. This is where comes the expression ??“ the thumb??™s rule from.

3. Assyrian Scriptures of 2000 BC affirm that in Noah's Ark was the beer.

4. Ancient Egyptians greeted each other with words ???Bread and beer???. They also honored Izis ??“ the goddess of beer and fertility.

5. The oldest recipe in the world saved to our days ??“ is the beer recipe.

6. The historians found evidences that in medieval times, when mocks brewed beer, each mock was allowed to drink 5 liters of beer per day.

7. The biggest beerbottels collection belongs to Ron Verner, who gathered 11644 different bottles from 1982. 7128 are still unopened.

8. Oktoberfest is the biggest beer festival in the world.

9. Hop is the magic flower owing of which we now enjoy beer. It is growing in rods and its flowers are gathered each autumn.

Taking into account, that in 2004 during the festival 6, 1 million beer mugs were consumed, it is clear that the fest organizators are taking care of the visitors ??“ all the WCs are free of charge (there are 964 separate cabins, 17 special cabins for invalids and 878 meters of  so-called ???standing places???.

The fest organizators ask the visitors not to get carried away, in order not to forget something on ???the beer battlefield???. Last  year more than 1500 various clothing articles, 480 passports and credit cards, 400 purses, 400 keys, 365 purses, rucksacks and wallets, 200 glasses, 190 cell phones, 65 watches and jewelers, 70 cameras, 150 umbrellas and one set of false teeth were found. According to the fest organizators??™ data, only 25 % of owners applied for the lost things.