"Tycho replies that he would order additional moose, and he would have sent his tame one, had it not died shortly before. It had been transported to the castle of Landskrona, a city close to Hven, to entertain a nobleman there. But it had happened that during the dinner, the moose had ascended the castle stairs and drunk of the beer in such amounts, that it had fallen down the stairs, and broken a leg. Despite the best care, the moose had died shortly thereafter."
— Exciting incidents in the life of Tycho Brahe, including getting his nose cut off in a rapier duel and replacing it with a gold one, and his pet moose that drank too much. Wikipedia seems to back most of this up, too, although written less awesomely. Also see Hirsute History’s t-shirt: 
