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Alpha, Beta, et caetera, obviously you know your alphabet… So it shouldn’t be too difficult to identify the following caps from Armenia, China, Ethiopia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Libya, North Korea, the Russian Federation, Thailand and Ukraine…

A bit of beer history from various civilizations

• "Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and celebrate the good days."  - Ancient Egypt proverb
   
• "I lived from beer of black wheat, and drank from beer of white wheat." - Engraving on Ancient Egyptian tomb
   
• "It was then that the Greeks, nurtured on brews they had learned about from the Egyptians, showed a handful of indomitable beer drinkers could overcome the greats of empires when it had forsaken the contents of brewing vats for exotic and befuddling liquors." - David L. MacIntosh (A Beer View of History)
   
• "For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim." - Xenophon, Greek historian circa 445 B.C.
   
• In their beer drinking heyday the Persians were invincible, but they succumbed to the inebriate habits of the nations they conquered." - David L. MacIntosh (A Beer View of History)
   
• "Ale - not beer- in a pewter mug was “comme il faut”, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink." - Guy de Maupassant (Twelve Men)
   
• "Man's way to God is with beer in hand." - Koffyar Tribal Wisdom, Nigeria
   
• "Man's way to C4CR is with caps in hand." – Newsletter editor
   

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