Quotes
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. ~Henry Lawson
There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others. ~Billy Carter

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that. ~Joe Theismann

Great American Beer Festival
Denver has just experienced the Great American Beer Festival for the thirty-third year. The festival is presented by the Brewers Association, a not-for-profit educational and trade organization that is devoted to making quality brewing and beer information available. Most people claim they attend the GABF to taste the various kinds and types of beer. These are the same people who claim to read Playboy for the stories.

It took 77 minutes to sell out the public tickets. Over the three days, September 25-27, the anticipated attendance will be 60,000 people tasting 3,500 different beers from brewers representing all 50 states. Brewers are anxious to enter the competition because it is a well established fact that if a beer wins a medal, sales increase dramatically. There will be 242 judges judging the various kinds of beer.

Denver Beer History
Beer is not new to Denver. Gold was discovered in 1858. The first brewery was built in 1859. German settlers soon arrived and started brewing beer. The first two breweries in Colorado were the Rocky Mountain Brewery and Sigi’s Brewery. The Rocky Mountain Brewery established in 1859 eventually becomes the Zang’s Brewery. Sigi’s Brewery established in 1864 evolved into the Tivoli Brewery. In 1900, John Good, the original owner of The Rocky Mountain Brewery, acquires Sigi’s brewery and renamed it Tivoli, after the famous amusement park in Copenhagen. Good kept Tivoli alive during Prohibition by producing “Dash,” a cereal beer with minimal alcohol content. (W.C.Fields once remarked, "Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.")

Tivoli continued to grow and drinkers continued to love Tivoli beer. After Good died in 1918 the brewery stayed in the hands of Good’s descendants and his long time business partner William Burghardt. By the 1950s, the brewery became one of the largest in the country producing up to 150,000 barrels a year, sold everywhere west of the Mississippi. When Loraine Good, the final Good descendant, passed away in 1965, Carl and Joseph Occhiatio purchased the Tivoli-Union Brewery from the estate. The brothers immediately faced hardship when the Platte River flooded in 1965, damaging the brewery. Sadly, in April of 1969, the Tivoli Brewery closed for business. Until Tivoli closed, it was the second oldest continuously operating brewery in the country with Pennsylvania’s Yuengling brewery being the only brewery with an existence surpassing that of Tivoli.

With the increased interest in craft beers, in 2012, a group of native Coloradans formed the Tivoli Distributing Company and Tivoli Beer was reborn. The first batch, a re-creation of the historic Tivoli Beer recipe, entered the brew kettle on August 1, 2012. At this time, establishments in the Denver area began selling Tivoli Beer for the first time in over 43 years.

True Facts (?)
Interesting facts, but one of these statements is not true. Which one is false - an outright lie?
1) Colorado ranks third in the nation in the number of craft breweries with about 300 breweries.

2) When Colombian drug lord Pablo Escolar's home was raided by the military, the soldiers did not know what to do with the hippos in Escolar's private zoo, so they let them go. They now thrive in Columbia's rivers, making Columbia have the largest hippopotamus population outside of Africa.

3) The Araucanian chicken is called the Easter Egg Chicken because it lays natural blue, pink, green, and brown eggs.

4)The Tesla model S scored 5 out of 5 stars in the National Highway Safety Administration test, the highest ever achieved by any car. It even broke the machine designed to crush it in the rollover test.

5) Pitchers are not known for their hitting. The record for the most home runs in a lifetime by a major league pitcher is held by Wes Ferrell, 38.

6) Yogi Berra struck out more times (414) than his lifetime total home runs (358)

7) To keep the beer cold, the Great American Beer Festival will use 130 tons of ice during the three days of the festival.



Answer
The correct answer is 7) the amount of ice is 208 tons at GABF