So it’s the weekend and it’s all about beer when you’re in Nairobi. You probably love a cold one or two, but how well do you really know your favorite brew? Sit back, relax and sip on these weird beer fact when you’re at your Nairobi kalocal.
That fear of an empty beer glass is called cenosillicaphobia. (Say that three times after a few pints).
Believe it or not, a Scotsman drank 60 pints of beer and had the world’s longest hangover which lasted for 4 weeks.
Somehow, in a weird way, slugs also like beer.
This is actually true in Amsterdam. Alcoholics are paid in beer, cigarettes and some money to clean streets.
Fun fact : Finland has a Wife Carrying competition where first price is the wife’s weight in beer.
If you didn’t already know, there’s an African beer brewed from bananas. Sound tasty to you?
What can 1 million bottles of Heineken and a local beer do? Well, they were used to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple in Thailand.
Weirdly enough, more Guinness is drunk in Nigeria than in its birthplace Ireland.
Apart from just loving beer in general, political parties in Argentina have their own brands of beer.
On a more inspiring note, Japan has found a way to help blind people enjoy beer also. Beer cans have braille on them so that they can’t confuse them with soft drinks.
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