About
4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a
month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law
with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because
their calender was lunar based, this period was called the “honey
month” or what we know to day as the “Honey moon”

Before invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the
temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for
adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the
phrase ” The Rule of the Thumb”

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old
England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at
themto mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we
get “mind your own P’s and Q’s”.

After consuming a vibrant brew called Aul or Ale, the Vikings would
go fearlessly to the battlefield, without their armour, or even their
shirts. The “Berserk” means “bear shirt” in norse, and eventually to
the meaning of wild battles.

Way down in 1740, the Admiral Veron of the British fleet decided to
water down the navy’s rum, which naturally, the sailors weren’t pleased
with. They nicknamed the Admiral Old Grog, after the still stiff
grogram coats he used to wear. The term grog soon began to mean the
watered down drink itself. When you are drunk on this this grog, you
are “groggy”, a word still in use.

Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the
rim of their beer mugs or ceremic/glass cups. The whistle was used to
order services. Thus we get the phrase, “wet your whistle”.