Interesting Beer Facts

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• Beer brewers use 6 billion pound of grain ever year to make the popular brew. • California has the most breweries a total of 219. • In any U.S. bar your beer will cost you $3.87 however in N.Y.C. it will cost $7.00. • A great deal of beer is drunk on Super Bowl Sunday. This is the one day when Americans drink 325.5 million gallons of beer which is enough to fill 439 Olympic-sized swimming pools. • Amazingly enough if you could stack up all the beer cans which Americans drink in one year you would be able to reach the moon 20 times. • If you chose beer over a mixed cocktail you could save yourself over 150 calories with each drink. Keep doing this for three months and you will have saved yourself 10,000 calories which is the equivalent of three pounds of body weight. • Beer contains a lot of the minerals which are necessary for the body. • According to a study done in 2009 it was discovered that moderate beer drinkers had better cognitive function than those who didn’t drink beer at all. • Beer has antioxidants especially polyphones which help to protect against damaging effects of oxygen and nitrogen in the human body and aid in helping to prevent high cholesterol, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease. • Darker beers, microbrews and craft beers have the most disease-fighting antioxidants and iron. • In a surprising research scientists discovered that a floating ethyl alcohol space cloud holds enough to be able to produce 400 trillion pints of beer. Do you like to have a beer now and then or are you a real beer lover? Source: caloriecount.about.com