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Ancient Greece. While the art of wine making reached the Hellenic peninsula by about 2000 BC, the first alcoholic beverage to obtain widespread popularity in what is now Greece was mead, a fermented beverage made from honey and water. However, by 1700 BC, wine making was commonplace.
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 ...
An alcoholic beverage (also called an adult beverage, alcoholic drink, strong drink, or simply a drink) is a beverage containing alcohol (ethanol). Alcoholic drinks are typically divided into three classes— beers, wines, and spirits —and typically their alcohol content is between 3% and 50%. Many cultures have a distinct drinking culture ...
Alcoholic drinks were prohibited by law, but the production of alcohol, wine in particular, seems to have thrived. [88] Wine was a subject for many poets, even under Islamic rule, and many khalifas used to drink alcoholic beverages during their social and private meetings.
The first definition of a cocktail as an alcoholic beverage appeared three years later in The Balance and Columbian Repository (Hudson, New York) May 13, 1806. [4] Traditionally, cocktail ingredients included spirits, sugar, water and bitters; [ 5 ] however, this definition evolved throughout the 1800s to include the addition of a liqueur .
Kyrgyzstan also has a beer made from millet; it is a low alcohol, somewhat porridge-like drink called "Bozo". [192] Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet and Sikkim also use millet in Chhaang, a popular semi-fermented rice/millet drink in the eastern Himalayas. [193] Further east in China are found Huangjiu and Choujiu—traditional rice-based drinks related to ...
Witbier ("White Beer", made with herbs or fruit instead of or in addition to hops) Cauim (made from cassava or maize) Cheongju (Korean, made from rice) Chicha (made from cassava, maize root, grape, apple or other fruits) Cider (made from apple juice or other fruit juice) Perry (made from pears)
It Launched Boozy Fresca. Coca-Cola began selling its first alcoholic line of drinks in 2018. The beverages, a lemon-flavored "alcopop," have mostly been available only in Japan and Latin America ...