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Some have proposed that alcoholic drinks predated agriculture and it was the desire for alcoholic drinks that led to agriculture and civilization. [4] [5] As early as 7000 BC, chemical analysis of jars from the Neolithic village Jiahu in the Henan province of northern China revealed traces of a mixed fermented beverage.
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 ...
The global alcoholic drink industry exceeded $1.5 trillion in 2017. [3] Alcohol is one of the most widely used recreational drugs in the world, and about 33% of all humans currently drink alcohol. [4] In 2015, among Americans, 86% of adults had consumed alcohol at some point, with 70% drinking it in the last year and 56% in the last month. [5]
Old English: Beore 'beer'. In early forms of English and in the Scandinavian languages, the usual word for beer was the word whose Modern English form is ale. [1] The modern word beer comes into present-day English from Old English bēor, itself from Common Germanic, it is found throughout the West Germanic and North Germanic dialects (modern Dutch and German bier, Old Norse bjórr).
An old whiskey still A display of various liquors in a supermarket Some single-drink liquor bottles available in Germany. Liquor (/ ˈ l ɪ k ər / LIK-ər) or distilled beverages are alcoholic drinks produced by the distillation of grains, fruits, vegetables, or sugar that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation.
The Shirley Temple, a non-alcoholic cocktail featuring grenadine and cherries, was first invented in the 1930s. The exact origin of the beverage, however, is somewhat disputed, with several iconic ...
The Merry Drinker (c. 1628–1630) by Frans Hals. Drinking culture is a subset of alcohol use situated within the larger scope of drug culture.Drinking culture encompasses the traditions, rituals, and social behaviors associated with consumption of alcoholic beverages as a recreational drug and social lubricant.
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