Number 10. There’s one that’s made with meteorites. The people at Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware have a brew infused with crushed lunar meteorites. To get their hands on the stuff, they partnered with ILC Dover, a company that makes space suits and has an in with NASA.

Number 9. It’s good for your hair. To get the conditioning and cleansing benefits, the beer must be applied directly to the tresses, so going out and throwing back a few won’t help with split ends

Number 8. Beer can be made from facial hair. A brewer in Oregon used yeast he harvested from his own beard to whip up a batch.

Number 7. Ancient Egyptians were paid with it. At least the ones working on the pyramids, anyway. Evidence has been found suggesting they were compensated with loaves of bread and a serving of beer.

Number 6. Beer and marijuana are related. Hops, used to flavour beer, and cannabis hail from the same plant family. The answer to your question, by the way, is yes. People have attempted to make beer from pot.

Number 5. In Prague, it’s cheaper than water. There, a bottle of water can cost more than double what a pint of beer does.

Number 4. Beer is good for you. It’s one of the few consumables that contains bone-benefitting silicon. A beer a day can also keep kidney stones away.

Number 3. 51 million cases of beer are sold on Super Bowl Sunday. Well, people have to wash down the billion chicken wings eaten on that weekend with something.

Number 2. There was a beer with a 55% alcohol content. It was called ‘The End of History’ and holds the Guinness record as the world’s strongest. It’s sold out now, but ran about 800 dollars a bottle. 11 hundred if you wanted it packaged with a taxidermied squirrel. Normal beer is about 4 and a half percent.

Number 1. They make home brew at the White House. President Obama got the ball rolling a while ago when he bought a kit.

source: Geobeats

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Heineken blames sales drop on wet weather

Heineken has blamed “unseasonably wet weather” in Europe for a drop in both sales and profit in the three months to the end of September. The Dutch brewer, which owns Strongbow and Bulmers as well as its eponymous lager, said sales fell 1.5% to €5.1bn (£4bn) in the third quarter.

Heineken said net profit in the quarter had also fallen, down to €460m, compared with €483m a year ago. It comes just weeks after it rejected a takeover from rival SABMiller.

Despite the weaker-than-expected performance, Heineken said it was still confident of its performance for the full year. “Amidst a volatile global environment and poor weather during the high selling season in Europe, we maintained top-line growth,” said Heineken chairman Jean-Francois van Boxmeer.

Revenues in eastern and western Europe fell 8.5% and 4.1% respectively. But the drop was offset by gains in emerging markets, with revenues up 10% in Asia and 3.6% in Africa. It said the popularity of its Tiger brand in Vietnam and Malaysia helped drive Asian sales higher.

In September, Heineken rejected a takeover offer from London brewer SABMiller, saying the proposal was “non-actionable”. It said the Heineken family, the founding family which still owns half of the firm, wanted to preserve the firm as “an independent company”.

source: BBC

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2. Emerging markets look less promising than western markets.

3. The African market showed the biggest increase in sales in this period.

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