Have a beerilicious summer: quirky beer facts

Move over the plain old pint of beer. Here are some zingy beer facts that will keep your summer blues at bay.

Move over the plain old pint of beer. Here are some zingy beer facts that will keep your summer blues at bay.

* The oldest known recipe of beer is more than 4000 years old. It was made by Sumerians, one of the earliest urban societies in the world in Southern Mesopotamia

* In the middle ages, beer was consumed more than water because of the ­distillation ­process that made it a much safer option

* A beer lover is called cerevisaphile It’s derived from the Latin name of the Roman Goddess of agriculture, Ceres, and vis, which means strength.

* A collector of beer bottles is called labeorphilist

* The first professional brewers were all women. They were called brewsters and the woman had to be very beautiful to be one

* The first beer bottle was sold in year 1850

* The first US President, George Washington, had his own Brewhouse on the grounds of Mount Vernon

* Snake Venom by a Scottish brewery boasts of being the strongest beer in the world with 67.5% ABV (alcohol by volume)

* White House Honey Ale is the first beer known to have been brewed in the White House

* Workers in Egypt, who constructed the pyramids, were paid with beer

* Beer is legally defined as a staple food in Bavaria