If you like your beer ice cold, it doesn’t get any icier than in St. Johns, Newfoundland. Quidi Vidi Brewing Company harvests water from 25,000-year-old icebergs to brew its aptly named Iceberg lager. The icebergs in Newfoundland were formed from compacted snow, leaving tiny bubbles trapped inside and a lack of minerals found in their water. That gives the golden beer a slight fizz and a light, pure taste.

Say, “Skál!” and raise a glass of beer on your next trip to Iceland — something local residents were not able to do for more than 70 years. All alcohol was banned in Iceland in 1915, with 60% of the population voting in favor of prohibition. While wine and liquor were later allowed in the 1920s and 1930s, beer was cheaper and thus thought to be easier to abuse. Beer wasn’t legalized until 1989.

Traveling from the bottling plant of Halve Maan — one of Belgium’s oldest operating breweries — from two miles outside of town to the city center, the world’s first legal beer pipeline is one of a kind. Built to avert the costs and inconvenience of transport trucks snaking through the city’s historic, narrow cobblestone streets, the pipeline carries 1,000 gallons of beer an hour.

Until 2009, Ireland used to offer those who donated blood a refreshing pint of Guinness. The iconic stout may actually have some health benefits, which made the practice not as unusual as you’d think — Guinness contains relatively high levels of iron and antioxidants and a lower alcohol content than other beers. The practice ended after the government lowered the legal alcohol limits for driving.

Pottsville, Pennsylvania, is home to the oldest operating brewery in the United States: Yuengling. Founded in 1829 by German immigrant David Gottlieb Jüngling (anglicized to Yuengling), it was called the Eagle Brewery before rebranding to D.G. Yuengling and Son in 1873. The original building burned down in 1831, but the building the company operated in thereafter has stood on Mahantongo Street ever since.

If your pint of beer seems a little larger in the U.K., you can thank the imperial measurement system. A British pint is 20 imperial fluid ounces, while an American pint is 16 U.S. fluid ounces. However, even the fluid ounces differ in size between countries (imperial is 4% smaller), so after conversion, an imperial pint would be equal to about 19.2 U.S. fluid ounces.

There are many nations that might well lay claim to consuming the most beer in the world, but on a per-capita basis, the relatively small Eastern European country of Czechia ranks No. 1, with an average consumption of 143.3 liters per person per year. While Namibia is No. 2 with 108 liters per person, European countries dominate the rest of the top 10.

Despite being sold in only one country (China), Snow beer is the world’s most popular brew, selling double the amount of the next beer on the list. In 2017 alone, Snow sold 101.2 million hectoliters, compared to Budweiser’s 49.2 million hectoliters. China’s Tsingtao ranks at No. 3, followed by Bud Light, Skol, and Heineken.

The world-famous Oktoberfest celebration takes place over 16 days on the festival grounds of Theresienwiese in Munich, Germany, each year. While other German and even international cities have picked up on the festivities, the original Oktoberfest in Munich was first held in 1810 and now attracts more than 6 million people each year.

The next time you’re sipping a Corona on the beach, consider the fact that Mexico is by far the world’s leading beer exporter, moving $4.3 billion worth of brews in 2020 and accounting for 28.4% of all beer exports. That’s more than double the share of the second-place country, the Netherlands, which exported $2.1 billion worth of beer in 2020.