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  2. 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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. History of alcoholic drinks - 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 ...

  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 Carmona, Spain. ... which was unearthed from a Roman tomb near the town of Speyer in Germany and dated between A.D. 325 and ...

  6. Raqefet Cave - Wikipedia

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    Raqefet Cave was discovered in 1956. The site indicates plants were already used as food here before the advent of agriculture. [1]Remains in one of the chambers of the cave suggest the production of beer during the occupation of the cave.

  7. History of wine - Wikipedia

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    The most famous was the white Falernian from the Latian–Campanian border, principally because of its high (~15%) alcohol content. The Romans recognized three appellations: Caucinian Falernian from the highest slopes, Faustian Falernian from the center (named for its one-time owner Faustus Cornelius Sulla , son of the dictator ), and generic ...

  8. Ancient chocolate factory — built in 600-year-old building ...

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    A large medieval house was built 600 years ago in Barcelona, Spain. By the 19th century, it was a chocolate factory. Now, archaeologists are exploring the remains of the ancient building ...

  9. Drinking culture - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom ranks 24th in the world for per capita alcohol consumption, with the prevalence of pub culture sometimes being cited as a factor in the country's high alcohol consumption. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] On average, the British drink an average of 9.7 litres of alcohol per year.