Raise Your Glass: 10 Intoxicating Beer Facts

[Ol'Wobbly]

You may have come across this before, but here's a top-10 list of beer facts according to the American Live Science website:

http://www.livescience.com/13288-intoxicat...cts-health.html

 

[carniebrew]

"The hops that give beer both its bitter taste and fruity aroma are also powerful cancer-fighters. Hops are a better source of cell-damage-fighting antioxidants than red wine, green tea and soy products, according to a 2000 study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. The source is xanthohumol, a tongue twister of a compound found only in hops."

I'll drink to that, ya green tea sipping hippies.

 

[treefiddy]

I'll drink to that, ya green tea sipping hippies.

Green tea at work. Beer at home.

I'm on to a winner?

 

[Nick JD]

"The source is xanthohumol, a tongue twister of a compound found only in hops."

And you need to drink enough beer per day that would kill three horses to get any effect from it.

 

[The Village Idiot]

And you need to drink enough beer per day that would kill three horses to get any effect from it.

I'll give it a shot......lol