1/02Number of cases of Polygamy Porter sold by a Utah brewery since October: 1,000

Wasatch Beers (Park City, Utah)

7/90Number of votes received by the Beer Drinkers Union in the East German elections held last March: 2,534

German Information Center (N.Y.C.)

    Number of votes received by the Unification Now party: 2,396

German Information Center (N.Y.C.)

9/05Number of Danish graduate students who last December released a copyright-free recipe for an “open-source beer”: 15

Superflex (Copenhagen)

    Number of times the website has been accessed so far: 133,000

Superflex (Copenhagen)

4/85Number of beer cans manufactured since they were introduced in 1935: 610,000,000,000

Can Manufacturers Institute (Washington, D.C.)

4/96Ratio of the price per ounce of Che Guevara beer to that of a beer named after indicted securities trader Nicholas Leeson: 3:1

Joe Grahame (London/South China Brewing Company (Hong Kong)