Raise your glasses high, raise your glasses proud

Whether it’s at your favorite team’s tailgate or in the comfort of your own home, everything is better with a cold beer. Ale, lager, stout, porter, cider or wheat… there is a beer for every occasion. Cheers to the beauty of beer!

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Here are 5 interesting facts about beer.

1. Cenosillicaphobia is the fear of an empty glass.
2. As a rule of thumb, darker beers have a higher alcohol content.
3. America’s largest craft brewery is Yuengling.
4. Abraham Lincoln taxed beer to help pay for the Civil War.
5. At the Wife Carrying World Championships, the first prize winner receives his or her wife’s weight in beer.