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# Brews You Can Use
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3289/
- Published: 2005-12-09T12:40:45.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-09T12:40:45.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Books, Food and Drink, #wpChunk

A Christmas gift for the man who drinks everything: *[Alcoholica Esoterica](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143035975/thedailyeudem-20?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*. From the Amazon book page:

> 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.  
> Ӣ that Winston Churchill's mother supposedly invented the Manhattan?  
> Ӣ that the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock because the sailors on the Mayflower were running low on beer and were tired of sharing?  
> Ӣ that you have a higher chance of being killed by a flying Champagne cork than by a poisonous spider?  
> Ӣ that the Code of Hammurabi mandated that brewers of low-quality beer be drowned in it?  
> Ӣ 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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Also worth considering: *[Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0330412205/thedailyeudem-20?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*.