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  2. History of alcoholic drinks - Wikipedia

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    The ability to metabolize alcohol likely predates humanity with primates eating fermenting fruit. [2] The oldest verifiable brewery has been found in a prehistoric burial site in a cave near Haifa in modern-day Israel. Researchers have found residue of 13,000-year-old beer that they think might have been used for ritual feasts to honor the dead.

  3. Alcoholic beverage - Wikipedia

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    The oldest verifiable brewery has been found in a prehistoric burial site in a cave near Haifa in modern-day Israel. Researchers have found residue of 13,000-year-old beer that they think might have been used for ritual feasts to honor the dead. The traces of a wheat-and-barley-based alcohol were found in stone mortars carved into the cave ...

  4. Drinking culture - Wikipedia

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    Some studies have noted traditional, cultural differences between Northern and Southern Europe. A difference in perception may also account to some extent for historically noted cultural differences: Northern Europeans drink beer, which in the past was often of a low alcohol content (2.5% compared to today's 5%).

  5. World's oldest wine has been discovered with an unexpected ...

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    The world’s oldest wine has been discovered at a Roman burial site in Spain, and one thing is clear — it definitely had body.. For roughly 2,000 years, the wine has been held in a glass ...

  6. The new science on alcohol and cancer: 4 studies that found a ...

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    The research on about 40,000 people in 26 studies found higher-intensity drinking — consuming more drinks each day, and drinking more years in a lifetime — was correlated with higher risk of ...

  7. History of beer - Wikipedia

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    Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...

  8. History of wine - Wikipedia

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    During the devastating phylloxera blight in late 19th-century Europe, it was found that Native American vines were immune to the pest. French-American hybrid grapes were developed and saw some use in Europe, but more important was the practice of grafting European grapevines to American rootstocks to protect vineyards from the insect. The ...

  9. Speyer wine bottle - Wikipedia

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    The Speyer wine bottle (or Römerwein [1]) is a sealed vessel, presumed to contain liquid wine, and so named because it was unearthed from a Roman tomb found near Speyer, Germany. It contained the world's oldest known liquid wine (dated to about AD 325), until 2024, when a 1st century AD urn within a Roman tomb - found in 2019 in the southern ...