1. After failing to find brewing yeast in their own fields, Oregon's Rogue Brewery produced a 5.6% golden "Beard Beer" using yeast from the chin of their brewmaster.
  2. Though the beer seen on Cheers was a 3.2% lager, no one enjoyed drinking it. To maintain the beer's head under studio lights, it was topped with table salt.
  3. Andre the Giant once drank 119 bottles of beer in six hours. When Andre passed out in a hotel hallway, friends, unable to move him, hid him with a piano cover.
  4. When Charles Manson was an infant, his prostitute mother tried to sell him to a childless waitress for a pitcher of beer.
  5. Film critic Roger Ebert only discovered the music of singer John Prine because he entered a bar where Prine was playing to have a beer after eating salty popcorn at a nearby theater.
  6. When a drunk hijacked a plane carrying 121 people in Norway, authorities persuaded him to trade his gun for more beer.
  7. The longest hangover in history lasted four weeks. The record was set by a Scotish man who downed 60 pints of beer.
  8. Struggling with alcoholism, Billy Carter asked his sister, evangelist Ruth Stapleton, for help to see if faith could heal a hangover. The result? "She didn't do a very good job of it," Billy reported. "But three beers did."
  9. One evening onstage, after several interactions with drunken hecklers, comedian Steve Martin found a perfect put-down. "Oh yeah," he said, reflectively, "I remember when I had my first beer."
  10. Matthew McConaughey's brother, Rooster, named his son Miller Lyte in honor of his favorite brew. When Miller found out, they sent Rooster 24 complimentary cases.