Egyptian Children Were Baptized with Beer, and Other Wordly Beer Facts [INFOGRAPHIC]

With St. Patrick’s Day weekend fittingly underway, it’s only proper we visit how ultimately important a role beer has played throughout the course of human history. How else does the ‘Facebook’ generation present an aggregation of facts? Why an infographic of course!

Did you know that Egyptian Texts contain 100 medical prescriptions that call for beer? Wow! Damn, does your foot hurt? Grab a brew! Headache? Well, we don’t have Advil yet, but we got this Blue Moon on tap.

Let’s fast forward to today, where it’s reported that annual beer consumption is about 22 gallons per person! Even more interesting, Americans drink enough beer each year to fill 330 oil tankers.

With all of that in mind, here is how ‘Beer Saved the World’:

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