Beer, wine and alcohol facts & records

[rec]

Strongest Beer

• The strongest known beer in 1979 was EKU Kulminator Urtyp Hell from Kilmbach, West Germany, at 13.2 percent alcohol (1979).

• Update: Bavarian brewer Harald Schneider, from southern Germany, brewed a beer that was 25.4% alcohol. Source.

Weakest Beer

• The weakest liquid ever marketed as a beer was a sweet ersatz beer from Germany be Sunner, Colne-Kalk in 1918. It had less than 0.2 percent alcohol (1979).

Speed Beer Drinking

• Steven Petrosino of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania on June 22nd, 1977, drank 1 liter of beer in 1.3 seconds. Peter G. Dowdeswell of Earls Barton drank two liters in 6.0 seconds on February 7th, 1975 (1979).

Fastest Beer Drinking Relay

• Czech patriots drank 2,662 half-litres of beer in less than 17 hours. Drinking at a rate of over 156 beers per hour, or 2.6 mugs per minute, the Czechs can now claim to be the fastest ?relay? drinkers in the world (2004). Source.

Highest Documented Blood Alcohol Level

• An unidentified middle-aged Latvian man was unconscious but stable after a blood test showed 7.22 parts per million (0.7%) of alcohol, police spokeswoman Ieva Zvidre said. ?An average person would vomit at around 1.2, lose consciousness at 3.0 and stop breathing at a level of about 4.0 parts per million? Zvidre said (2003). Source.

Most Alcoholic Person (actual name of record)

• It is recorded that a hard drinker named Vanhorn (1850 ? 1911) averaged more than four bottles of Ruby Port per day for 23 years prior to his death at 61. He is believed to have emptied 35,688 bottles (1979).

Beer Consumption

• The nation with the highest beer consumption per person is West Germany, with 39.8 U.S. gallons per person in 1976. In the northern territory of Australia, the annual intake has been estimated to be as high as 62.4 U.S. gallons per person (1979).

Youngest Recorded Death from Alcohol Poisoning

• A 4 year old boy, Joesph Sweet, in Wolverhampton, England, in died 1827 from alcohol poisoning, reported in the Stafford Assizes case R. v. Martin (1979).

Most Alcoholic Drink

• During Independence (1918 ? 1940) the Estonian Liquor Monopoly marketed 196 proof potato alcohol. In the U.S., Everclear (190 proof) is marketed by the American Distilling Co. (1979).

Most Expensive Liqueur

• A half bottle of Peres Chartreux, Tanrragone, June of 1945 has been sold for 130 francs, equivalent to $59 per bottle (1979).

Most Expensive Spirit

• Grande Fine Champagne Napolean, 1811 was auctioned at Christie?s of London in December 1976 for $374 for a single bottle (1979).

Oldest Wine

• The oldest datable wine has been an amphora salvaged and drank by Captain Jacques Cousteau from the wreck of a Greek trader sunk in the Mediterranean circa 230 B.C. Wine jars recovered from the Pompeii eruption of A.D. 79 were found labeled VESUVINUM ? The oldest known trade mark (1979).

Most Expensive Wine

• The highest price ever paid for a bottle of wine of any size is $18,000 for a jeroboam of 1864 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild dry red Bordeaux, purchased at an auction in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 25th, 1978 (1979).

• Update: The most expensive wine ever sold is a bottle of 1787 Chateau Lafite which sold at Christie?s London in December, 1985 for ?105,00 (about US $160,000). Source.

Greatest Wine Auction

• The single largest sale of wine took place at Christie?s of King Street, St. James, London, on March 25-26, 1976, when 31,000 bottles of Bordeaux wines were auctioned for $1,500,000 (1979).

Champagne Cork Flight

• The longest distance for a champagne cork to fly from an untreated bottle 4 feet from level ground is 102 feet 11 inches by Gary P. Mahan at La Habra Heights, California on August 2nd, 1975 (1979).

Longest Prohibition

• The longest lasting imposition of Prohibition against consumption of alcoholic beverages has been 26 years in Iceland (1908 ? 1934). Other prohibitions have been in Russia (1914 ? 1924) and the United States (1920 ? 1933)(1979).

Largest Beer Selling Establishment

• The Mathaser Bayerstrasse 5, Munich, West Germany averaged 100,800 pints sold per day. It was rebuilt in 1995 to seat 5,500 people (1979).

Longest Bar

• The longest bar with Beer pumps was built in 1938 at the Working Men?s Club, Mildura, Victoria, Australia. Its counter is 298 feet in length, with 27 pumps (1979).

Oldest Brewery

• The oldest brewery is the Weihenstephan, Brewery in Freising, near Munich, West Germany, founded in 1040 (1979).

Largest Single Brewer

• Anheuser-Busch, Inc. In 1975, the company sold 35,196,180 barrels, the largest annual volume ever produced by a Brewery (1979).

Largest Brewery

• The largest brewery on a single site is Adolph Coors Co. of Golden Colorado, which produced 12,800,000 barrels in 1978 (1979).

[Jono]

Beer Consumption * The nation with the highest beer consumption per person is West Germany, with 39.8 U.S. gallons per person in 1976. In the northern territory of Australia, the annual intake has been estimated to be as high as 62.4 U.S. gallons per person (1979).

lol..

[Cow]

shame for most of the facts being from 1979?

[Milenko]

rec Longest Bar The longest bar with Beer pumps was built in 1938 at the Working Men?s Club, Mildura, Victoria, Australia. Its counter is 298 feet in length, with 27 pumps (1979)

Just out-side of Broken Hill
Damn miners know how to drink too :P

[OverG]

Cow shame for most of the facts being from 1979?

The guys counting lost count when they joined in the beer drinking...

[psyave]

Most Expensive Spirit Grande Fine Champagne Napolean, 1811 was auctioned at Christie?s of London in December 1976 for $374 for a single bottle (1979).

I donno about a Champagne been a spirt. Anyhowz heres a few expensive ones.

"In 2002, a well-authenticated single bottle of 62-year-old Dalmore fetched $25,000 (pounds). In the 1990's, importer and distributor Norman Shelley bought 76 bottles of Macallan, ranging from current 30-year-olds to 1856 bottlings, for an undisclosed price. Within two or three years, his collection was valued at $231,500 (pounds)"
"In 1991, 9 cases of a 50-year-old glenfiddich were bottled... one feteched $70,000 (USD) in an auction in Milan."

Source: Michael Jackson, 2004. In his book "Michael Jackson's Malt Whisky Companion"


"The Bruichladdich whisky distillery in Scotland is to revive an ancient tradition by producing a quadruple distilled single malt - a process likely to produce a 92 per cent proof spirit."

Source: http://www.spittoon.biz/worlds_strongest_whisky.html

[psyave]

And maybe change the liqueur reccy, couldnt find other prices on different liqueurs. Found our most expensive wine tho.

Most Expensive Liqueur A half bottle of Peres Chartreux, Tanrragone, June of 1945 has been sold for 130 francs, equivalent to $59 per bottle (1979).

"The most expensive current-release Austalian wine is Seppelt 100-Year-Old Para Liqueur Port. The 1904 vintage is $1050 a bottle.

The most valuable Australian wine of any vintage is the original 1951 Penfolds Grange. The highest price paid is $56,977 (including buyer's premium) at an Oddbins auction last June."

http://www.boozebros.com.au/html/tastings.html

[psyave]

Oh forgot to include, a bottle of Seppelt 100-Year-Old Para Liqueur Port has gone for $2250 (aud) before.

[Cow]

the grand fine champagne would most likely be a cognac....

[psyave]

i see, i see. Prolly not on any list of my drink of choice. Dont really like its burning textures.