First alcoholic beverage made?!
Answers: Around what time was the first ever alcoholic beverage made? Was it used for any specific purpose, or just for something to drink? Who first made it?
"Chemical analysis of traces absorbed and preserved in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China, have revealed that a mixed fermented beverage of rice, honey, and fruit was being produced as early as 9,000 years ago. This is approximately the same time that barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East."
the bible has several references to wine making. since muslims dont drink there are no references to drinking i dont think....
id say wine .
It is mentioned in a lot of the holly books as well in the Greek civilizations /
In Europe they used to brew beer to drink instead of the contaminated waters .Malaria times .
Beer wasn't used to party !!!!!!
But it was as a survival drink
Wine!
it's mentioned in mythology story also called SOMRAS.
With the limited knowledge on this subject that I have, I cannot say who first discovered alcohol, or even what people did. It was before the bible, by that time it had been around for atleast a thousand years.
I would imagine that these people noticed they became drunk, thus associated some religious connotation with it -- clearly some "god" must be causing this effect.
The first beverage I know was mead, though. We generally refrain from calling mead as such in the US, because nobody will recognize it. You will much more likely hear it called "Honey wine." As the name implies, it's fermented honey. This happened by accident.
It's damn fortunate for us that in the middle ages they had nearly perfected making beer. If the people were forced to drink the water, they would have all died. The water, of course, was tainted. The beer, with it's alcohol and fermentation, was not tainted and so did not cause illness. Churchill used to add a splash of scotch to the water in N. Africa while there, because the water would make him sick, but the scotch killed the germs and made the water drinkable.
beer