Beer is the world's most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and it's been helping people party on for nearly ten thousand years. At any given time, fifty million people all over the planet are on a bender and many have beer to thank for getting their buzz on. So this little book is a boozy panegyric, filled with fun facts, stories and quotations that indulge and celebrate the sheer awesomeness of beer drinking, now and through the ages.