Lion Beer: Facts

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Australian Olympic swimming gold medalist Neil Brooks retired after being suspended for drinking 46 cans of beer on a flight from Britain back to Australia?
bread and beer were the two basic staples of Ancient Egyptian cuisine?
British beer authorities have declared that women prefer beer made from bananas?
William Hogarth's prints Beer Street and Gin Lane contrast the misery of gin drinkers with the happiness and good health of those who drink beer?
Barry Bowen owned Belikin, Belize's only domestically brewed beer brand, as well as the country's only commercial coffee farm?
Beer Day in Iceland celebrates the end of prohibition of beer on 1 March 1989, though wine and other spirits had been legal since 1935?
Bryncelyn Brewery in Wales relates the names of all its beers in some way to Buddy Holly?
Henry Weinhard, a brewer in Portland, Oregon, offered to pump free beer into the Skidmore Fountain when it was dedicated?
John Harrison (pictured), seventeenth century benefactor of Leeds, is reputed to have slipped Charles I a tankard of gold coins disguised as beer?
Lion Beer was Asia's first brand of beer?

10,000 people protested against construction of a dam across the Subarnarekha River in India?
16th century Indian musician-composer Miyan Tansen laid the foundations of Hindustani classical music by mixing Sufi and Bhakti musical traditions ?
18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India?
22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh, regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India, played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka?
70% of the population of Tamil Nadu is engaged in the Indian state's agricultural sector and related industries for their livelihood?
Rani Abbakka, who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century, is regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'?
Arya Samaj spearheaded the 19th-century cow protection movement, Hindu opposition to Muslim cow sacrifice, leading to violent riots spreading all across India?
footballer Bud Houghton was born in Madras to an Anglo-Indian family who migrated to England in 1947 when India gained independence from British rule?
Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as "John" in return for pitch and weather reports?
Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasurywala was discovered while stuck in India when Kuwait Airways lost her luggage, including travel documents she needed to return to school in New York?