Sipping on your favourite spirit is fun for sure, but what’s equally entertaining is digging up interesting trivia about it. For the benefit of you, our readers, we got together a set of fun facts about tipple.
When our ancestors raised a “toast”, the act was quite literal! A piece of toast was actually dropped into a glass of wine to drink to someone’s good health.
You know that there’s a tremendous amount of pressure in a bottle of Champagne. But did you know that the pressure is three times that of the pressure in a car tyre? Here’s another Champagne fact: A bottle contains about 49 million bubbles!
People often use flat beer to rinse off their hair, as it gives your tresses a shine. But back in the 1800s, rum was supposed to be the secret to a healthy mane of hair and stylists routinely advised ladies to soak and then wash their hair in it. Others advised the same with brandy.
Before mercury, brandy was the liquid used in thermometers.
Gin was used by the British in their colonies in their anti-malarial medicines. The gin masked the bitter taste of quinine, which was mixed with carbonated water: Gin and tonic!
Vineyards in France consider their soil to be so precious that workers in the vineyard scrape it off their shoes before leaving.
