Friday, July 11, 2014

  Largest glass of beer: Stodd Fold Brewing Company breaks Guinness World Records' record

Ripponden, UK -- A British pub has toasted the Tour de France coming to town by pouring the world's largest ever glass of beer at 3,664 pints - one for each kilometre of the race; the Fleece Countryside Inn in Ripponden, Yorkshire, smashed the previous Guinness World Records' record of 2,638, which was achieved in California in 2009, according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/ .

  Photo: Angus Wood at the Stod Fold Brewing Company, Ogden celebrates the world record for world's largest glass of beer. ( enlarge photo )

  The Guinness World Records' record for the largest glass of beer contained 1,499 litres (329.74 gal, 396 US gal) of Guinness and was prepared at The Auld Dubliner Irish Pub in Tustin, California, USA, on 21 November 2009. The glass measured 2.42 m (7 ft 11 in) tall with a diameter of 1.1 m (3 ft 7 in) at its widest point.

Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the largest beer tasting; it involved 322 participants and was conducted by Warren McCoubrey at The Oast House (both UK) in Manchester, UK, on 7 August 2013.

Stodd Fold Brewing Company celebrated the Tour's arrival in Yorkshire by breaking the Guinness World Records' world record for the largest glass of beeer.

  The company at Ogden, Halifax, will now enter the Book of Records after filling the glass with 3,664 pints of Stod Fold's Gold Ale- one pint for every kilometer of the world-famous race.

Photo: Brewery co-founder Angus Wood fills a giant beer glass with with 3,664 pints of Stod Fold's Gold ale, one pint for every kilometre of the Tour de France.
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  Johnny Naylor, the London partner of the brewery, said: "We've been working through the night to get it sorted.

   "We wanted to do something different and it's a fantastic feeling."

   Organisers had to climb up scaffolding to top the enormous vessel with the locally-brewed Stod Fold's Gold ale as thousands of spectators watched.

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