Where abouts in the world did the first alcohlic drink originate from?

Question

Just wondering who discovered how to make alcohol and what did they make?

Answer 1

The first evidence of fermented liquor was found in Mesopotamia which is now Iraq and Iran. It all the fault of the Iranians! Go on GWB, bomb the buggery out of them, it is all their fault you were a teenage pisshead!

Answer 2

Good question that I do not know the answer to except I have always been amazed at how civilizations with no contact all discovered the effects of alcohol and drugs. How did that happen. Africans, South Americans, Asians etc all had alcohol centuries ago before they had any contact.

As with drugs, mainly marijuana. How did tribes in Africa, South American Indians, Oriental/Asian societies, all happen to discover that if you dried a particular plant, crumbled it up and rolled it up in a leaf, set fire to it, breath in the smoke, you would get stoned? Why did they all try that with exactly the same plant, what about the thousands of other plants? It's really weird

Answer 3

Egypt.

Answer 4

Ireland of course   ---    Mr Guiness

Answer 5

look at this ranking about world signature drinks

http://www.raanker.com/allranks_vote.php...

Answer 6

It is unknown when the first alcoholic was created. Evidence of intentionally fermented beverages exist in the form of beer jugs dated as early as the Neolithic period.

Apparently, beer was the first alcoholic beverage known to civilization.

http://inventors.about.com/od/foodrelate...

Hope this helps x.

Answer 7

I don't know, but they've got a lot to answer for!!!!!

Answer 8

Aztecs.

Answer 9

The discovery of late Stone Age beer jugs has established the fact that purposely fermented beverages existed at least as early as c. 10,000 BC. It has been suggested that beer may have preceded bread as a staple.

Evidence of wine only appeared as a finished product in Egyptian pictographs around 4,000 BC.

The earliest evidence of alcohol in China are wine jars from Jiahu which date to about 7000 BC.[2] This early drink was produced by fermenting rice, honey, and fruit.

Alcoholic beverages in the Indus valley civilization appeared in the Chalcolithic Era. These beverages were in use between 3000 BC - 2000 BC. Sura, a beverage distilled from rice meal, was popular among the Kshatriya warriors and the peasant population.

Beer was the major beverage among the Babylonians, and as early as 2,700 BC they worshiped a wine goddess and other wine deities.

While the art of wine making reached the Hellenic peninsula by about 2,000 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 1,700 BC, wine making was commonplace, and during the next thousand years wine drinking assumed the same function so commonly found around the world: It was incorporated into religious rituals, it became important in hospitality, it was used for medicinal purposes and it became an integral part of daily meals. As a beverage, it was drunk in many ways: warm and chilled, pure and mixed with water, plain and spiced.

Pulque, or octli is an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of the maguey, and is a traditional native beverage of Mesoamerica. Though commonly believed to be a beer, the main carbohydrate is a complex form of fructose rather than starch. Pulque is depicted in Native American stone carvings from as early as AD 200.

FYI: Alcohol is a lot easier to store as it takes a long time to go bad so it's not suprising how long it's been in existence.