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There are many saints associated with brewing in Irish mythology. Brigitta of Ireland or Kildare, who lived in the 5th and 6th centuries, took on the image of a pagan idol that previously existed in traditional beliefs and seamlessly wove herself into Christianity, according to tradition dedicating her life to the service of Christ. St. Brigitta performed many miracles, and one of them is related to beer: once before Easter, when the monastery lacked vessels and products to prepare the drink for the holiday, she was able to turn water into wort and accelerate fermentation, providing beer for as many as 18 nearby parishes.

And here is the legend of St. Columbanus, the founder of the Bobbio Monastery in Italy. According to his monastic statutes, any novice who negligently ruined even a little beer would be punished. One day, one of the clerics decided to draw beer from a barrel, but he was urgently called to the abbot. Distracted, he forgot that he had not closed the tap at the cask, and when he returned, he found that not a single drop had leaked out - so the Lord saved the two monks from punishment.

According to a popular story, after Niels Bohr, world-famous physicist, who created the first theory of the quantum atom, won the Nobel Prize, the brewing company Carlsberg gave him a house with a beer pipeline near Copenhagen. Bohr actually lived from 1932 to 1962 in the residence of Jacob Christen Jacobson, founder of Carsberg, who willed that after his death, researchers of merit in science, culture and the arts should live in the house. No pipe through which free beer flowed there existed is an urban legend. Niels Bohr may well have received a couple of bottles of Carlsberg as a gift, but this has not been reliably recorded.