--- title: National Beer Lover's Day and a Toast to Diatomaceous Earth Filter Aid description: Saturday is National Beer Lovers Day! Toast to diatomaceous earth filter aid-used by experienced brewmasters for the best quality, taste & clarity. image: https://blog.epminerals.com/hubfs/beer%20lovers%20day.png --- [![EP Minerals](https://s3.amazonaws.com/tai-epminerals-blue-production/assets/logo-2x-47fa904bf68f43107c73f6469e9c48f456bd3926518cc9ea58c2fb18c520d71d.png)](https://epminerals.com) Incredible Minerals for Everyday Use - [Login](https://epminerals.com/users/login) - [Careers](https://epminerals.com/about-us/careers) - [Contact Us](https://epminerals.com/contact-us) # Incredible Minerals Today ## [National Beer Lover's Day and a Toast to Diatomaceous Earth Filter Aid](https://blog.epminerals.com/celebrate-with-a-toast-to-diatomaceous-earth-0-0) Posted by [Julie Brown](https://blog.epminerals.com/author/julie-brown) Sep 5, 2019 9:47:25 AM **![beer lovers day](https://blog.epminerals.com/hs-fs/hubfs/beer%20lovers%20day.png?width=666&name=beer%20lovers%20day.png)** Beer drinkers across the nation will celebrate this weekend--September 7th is National Beer Lover's Day! There are more than 7,000 breweries in the United States today ranging in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries. It’s a great time to remember that the most experienced brewers in the world today use all-natural diatomaceous earth (DE) filtration to get the finest beer quality, taste and clarity.   A few interesting National Beer Lover's Day facts: **Beer is a billion dollar business.** No joke, beer sales are in the billion dollar territory. (About $111 billion, to be precise.) $26 billion of that from craft beer.  **We’re not beer snobs. Natty Light is dominant.** We love our craft beer, sure, but we also love our macro lagers, which is why Natty Light, the top worst-rated American beer in the world, makes it onto the top 10 list of overall beer sales for last year. **There is a very creepy Egyptian beer myth.** The Egyptians drank beer. The slaves who built the pyramids were actually paid in beer. But that’s not the half of it. The sun god Re supposedly fell “madly in love” with his daughter, Hathor. When Hathor drank beer, “she turned into the goddess of love, lust, joy, singing, dancing, and laughter.” Which is also why we assume Egyptians invented karaoke. **Two hundred years ago, there was a deadly beer flood in England.** Not that it couldn’t have been prevented. An employee of London’s Horse Shoe brewery noticed that a massive, integral metal hoop had fallen off an equally massive, equally integral vat of fermenting porter. Instead of fixing it, his bosses told him to leave a note. The vat busted open and flooded the streets with 135,000 gallons of porter, leaving casualties and, we assume, a bunch of drunk rats in its wake. **America has beaten its own brewery record.** In 1873, we had 4,131 breweries in the United States. Post-Civil War, clearly we all needed a drink. There was a massive dive in the number of breweries leading up to (but not caused by) Prohibition. But our thirsts returned, and by 2017 we had over 6,000 breweries, thousands more than we did 143 years ago. **America’s so good at beer, Belgium is copying us.** America makes Belgian style beer because Belgium is one of the most prolific, idiosyncratic beer countries in the world. So the fact that they’re copying us, creating IPA-style beers after the ones we popularized, is pretty cool. It’s like when the cool kid at school follows some fashion trend you started, like wearing jeans with a dress. (Because for some reason, people did that for a while.) **Beer has health benefits, especially for the ladies.** We tend to associate beer with, well, guys. But beer can be a good workout recovery drink, provided you’re not pounding it, and can actually help promote bone density and (quite possibly) prevent cognitive impairment in women. **There’s a ton of good (gluten-free) beer.** Gluten-free beer may have its detractors, but among those who can’t (or just choose not to) drink beer made traditionally, the stuff’s a necessity. Fortunately, there’s enough demand for gluten-free beer out there to have spawned a whole new category that we can all enjoy. **Beer is where the home is. Or home is where the beer is. Or something.** Millennials especially like to experiment with craft beer outside of home. Of all the boozy beverages we do drink at home, beer is at the top of our list. So maybe the best way to celebrate National Beer Lover's Day is to kick back on the couch or in your back yard and relax with your favorite brew.  **To celebrate National Beer Lover's Day, enjoy your favorite beer and drink responsibly. And here’s to DE, the all-natural, best filter aid for beer filtration!** Thanks to VinePair for the interesting beer facts!  Filtration FAQs - Get the answers to the questions we receive most on diatomaceous earth vs. membrane filter technology: [click here](https://s3.amazonaws.com/tai-epminerals-blue-production/assets/documents/documents/433/original/Celatom_DE_and_CelaBrew_Beer_Filtration_Flyer_EPM108.pdf?1442944801). 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