About 4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the brides father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know to day as the Honey moon Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase The Rule of the Thumb In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at themto mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get mind your own Ps and Qs. After consuming a vibrant brew called Aul or Ale, the Vikings would go fearlessly to the battlefield, without their armour, or even their shirts. The Berserk means bear shirt in norse, and eventually to the meaning of wild battles. Way down in 1740, the Admiral Veron of the British fleet decided to water down the navys rum, which naturally, the sailors werent pleased with. They nicknamed the Admiral Old Grog, after the still stiff grogram coats he used to wear. The term grog soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you are drunk on this this grog, you are groggy, a word still in use. Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of their beer mugs or ceremic/glass cups. The whistle was used to order services. Thus we get the phrase, wet your whistle. Read more at theholidayspot/patrick/fun_beer_facts.htm#bMW2V5MUcsUgf9ss.99
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