Did you know the First Elephant to set foot in America drank dark beer? Well
it's true. The elephant arrived in America in 1796 on the Derby owned ship
Captained by Jacob Crowninshield, he charged spectators 25 cents to watch the elephant
uncork and drink the dark beer..
George Washington's favorite beer was porter, made in America to support
the revolutionary effort, he declared he would only drink porter made in America
and urged others to do the same.
In 1929 during the prohibition in America, it is estimated that there was about
700,000,000 gallons of home brewed beer and alcohol made.
Beer and Skittles: A British phrase meaning amusement, fun- with or without beer.
Small Beer: A person or thing of little importance.
Did you know the Court of Appeal in London ruled that American brewery Anheuser-Busch
and Czech brewery Budejovicky Budvar may both use the Bud name in England.
Despite the "danger of confusion" facing the beer-drinking public,
three Court of Appeal judges ruled that the names Budweiser and
Bud belongs to both breweries. The two breweries have been fighting around the
world for exclusive rights to the Budweiser trademark. They have been battling
in Britain since the 1970s, when both companies began marketing their products
in England. The Czechs say they had claims to the name long before the Americans
began brewing beer. "Budweiser," named after a Czech village called Ceske
Budejovice, was made as far back as the Middle Ages, they say. The term
Budweiser describes beer from that region, the same way Burgundy and Champagne
describe wine from those wine-making regions of France, they say. The German
immigrants who founded Anheuser-Busch, and who began brewing Budweiser in 1876,
used the Budweiser name for their beer because it was well known in their
homeland. In Czechoslovakia, the state-owned Budvar brewery was founded in 1895.
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