4/85Number of beer cans manufactured since they were introduced in 1935: 610,000,000,000
8/87Takes required to film Tip O’Neill’s Miller Lite commercial: 79
7/88Price paid in West Virginia last April for a case of Billy Beer: $2,000
7/90Number of votes received by the Beer Drinkers Union in the East German elections held last March: 2,534
Number of votes received by the Unification Now party: 2,396
1/92Liters of beer an escaped circus bear in the Ukraine drank in the Kharkov town square before being recaptured: 3
5/93Percentage of Americans who would accept a new 50¢ tax on a six-pack of beer to help finance health-care reform: 87
6/93Price of golf, dinner, beer, and a “cart dance” by a topless female caddie at Fort Worth’s New Orleans Nights club: $620
1/94Amount Miller Brewing spends each year to promote its Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund: $300,000
Amount it spends each year to endow the scholarship: $150,000
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
1/99Rank of the Budweiser frog TV-ad campaign, among the most popular commercials with children over the age of six: 1
9/05Number of Danish graduate students who last December released a copyright-free recipe for an “open-source beer”: 15