1000 Remarkable Facts About Booze

So I just started reading this book by Richard Erdoes . My first thoughts when I read the heading  was that it would be witty and humorous but it is actually historical. These are five of those facts :

v According to Egyptian tradition, beer and wine were invented for humans by the goddess Isis.

v The mighty baron Jan Primus once imbibed 72 quarts of beer during the course of one evening.

v A favourite motif for 16^th century German engravers was a priest or monk quaffing mightily accompanied by the written legend, “Ich trink fuer Alle!” meaning I drink for all.

v One of vodka’s greatest attractions has always been that it leaves no odour of alcohol on the drinker’s breath. During the 1950s, one brand was advertised under the slogan “Wifey won’t know.”

v Monks did not only brew the beer of Merry Old England, they also drank it copiously :

To drink like a Capuchin is to drink poorly,

To drink like a Benedictine is to drink deeply,

To drink like a Dominican is pot after pot,

But to drink like a Franciscan is to drink the cellar dry,