Did you know...
that the word bar is short for barrier? Yes, that’s right—to keep the customers from getting at all the booze.
that Winston Churchill’s mother supposedly invented the Manhattan?
that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock because the sailors on the Mayflower were running low on beer and were tired of sharing?
that you have a higher chance of being killed by a flying Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
that the Code of Hammurabi mandated that brewers of low-quality beer be drowned in it?
that beer was so popular with medieval priests and monks that in the thirteenth century they stopped baptizing babies with holy water and started using beer?
Did you know...
that the word bar is short for barrier? Yes, that’s right—to keep the customers from getting at all the booze.
that Winston Churchill’s mother supposedly invented the Manhattan?
that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock because the sailors on the Mayflower were running low on beer and were tired of sharing?
that you have a higher chance of being killed by a flying Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?
that the Code of Hammurabi mandated that brewers of low-quality beer be drowned in it?
that beer was so popular with medieval priests and monks that in the thirteenth century they stopped baptizing babies with holy water and started using beer?
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781440626692 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 09/27/2005 |
Sold by: | Penguin Group |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 288 |
File size: | 2 MB |
Age Range: | 18 Years |