Alcoholic beverages Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
drink containing alcohols, typically ethanol
About Alcoholic beverages
—F. Scott Fitzgerald The discovery of beverages containing alcohol dates back to pre-history, and was surely an accident; many times someone must have left out a bowl of gruel or jar of fruit for a few days, and come back to find a beverage which produced a pleasant mental state. But thedeliberateproduction of alcohol is tied to theneolithic revolution, humanity's transition from a hunter-gather society to an agricultural one, about 10,000 BCE. Some scholars even suggest that the demand for additional grain to feed the beer brewing process was a major factor pushing people towards agriculture. The oldest knownevidence of brewingis in what is now Israel and dates to 11,000 BCE. Alcoholic beverages were invented and regularly consumed by many different cultures. Leaving out a liquid containi
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