Posted on 11/06/2002 12:12:40 PM PST by Sweet_Sunflower29
Centenarian Edgar Moore says downing almost 63,000 pints of beer has kept him young.
Mr Moore has drunk two pints a day since he left school at 14.
This means at 100 he's sunk 62,780 pints and spent £87,000 on beer at today's prices.
The retired farm worker told The Sun : "I've enjoyed a couple of pints of mild every single day since I started work, and I think it's kept me young.
"When you tot up the cost it sounds a fortune but it's a small price for all the enjoyment.
"There's nothing like having a natter with the lads and a laugh with the barmaids. I've got a dodgy knee, but I still manage to walk half a mile backwards and forwards to the pub at lunchtime."
Mr Moore was bought his first beer by fellow farmhands in 1916 and didn't miss a session for 61 years at the Mill Road club in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
After moving in 1981 he shifted his allegiance to the Pied Piper two miles away and still rolls up each lunchtime
Scotch Ale is better because it tastes like it has a shot of scotch in every pint of ale.
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