Beer and Wine Facts
In English pubs, ale is ordered in pints and quarts, so in old England, when
customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints
and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and
Q's".
Before the invention of thermometers, brewers tested the temperature of their
beer with their thumb prior to adding the yeast. This is where we get the phrase
"Rule of Thumb".
Everyone knows what a sulphiter is, and if you read the box it comes in you
will know that in Italian it is called an "avinatore". But did you
know why? We sanitize our bottles with sulphite but the traditional Italian
method is to rinse the bottles with wine (with a little sulphite) before
bottling, hence the name a-"vin"-atore.
The idea for wines labeled "cooking wines" came from 18th and 19th
century aristocratic kitchens where they put salt in the wine so that cooks
wouldn’t drink it.
Cenosillicaphobia - Fear of an empty glass
Bottling of Beer began in Canada in the 1890’s.
Much of the medieval brewing in Europe was carried out in Monasteries.
The color of all grape juice is white, even that squeezed from a red grape.
The color in red wine comes from the contact with the skins.
That the best way to make your wine last longer is to bring your friends and
relatives along with you to the U BREW SHOPPE
and have them start making their own wine!
In Babylon, female brewers were temple priestesses.
Until the Middle Ages, the brewing of beer was exclusively the job of the
woman of the household.
Assyrian records of 2000 yrs ago list beer as an item on Noah’s shopping
list.
Brewing beer in Canada began with the first European settlers in the early
1500’s, with the first brew pub established in 1650 in Montreal.
During the middle ages beer was sold at weddings as a means of raising
dowries. The groom’s mother-in-law sold "bride ale" or
"bridal" at the wedding feast. All uninvited attendees would pay a
fixed price per measure while invited guests would pay about the asking price.
Presumably, the merrier one got, so to the more generous.
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