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18 Comments to "The Origin of Booze"
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CheeseDuck
May 2nd, 2008 at
4:07 pm
Ooh.. Getting drunk off of tequila is the worst.
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Alannah
May 2nd, 2008 at
4:20 pm
As I get older I have less and less tolerance for drink. It’s like having something stolen from me, a bit at a time.
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Mostro
May 2nd, 2008 at
4:29 pm
Man, that bit about champagne reads like gibberish. I used to work in QC at a sprkling producer and whoever wrote that got it bass-ackwards. Fermenting on the vine? Nnnooooo.
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andrewdoane
May 2nd, 2008 at
4:38 pm
All I can say to Mr. Cuervo and Mr. Sauza and everyone else responsible for tequila is… thank you.
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Zav
May 2nd, 2008 at
4:42 pm
But but what about SAKE!
Shame shame.
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lynne
May 2nd, 2008 at
4:44 pm
mmmmm Beer!
Beer is food but food is not beer.
Two of the best things Homer Simpson has ever said.
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donna
May 2nd, 2008 at
6:29 pm
Actually, honey mead was most likely first before beer….
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l'elk!
May 2nd, 2008 at
11:46 pm
i’d leave a more thought provoking comment to this if i wasn’t drunk
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hic
May 3rd, 2008 at
3:50 am
“Africa sent slaves to the Caribbean…”
Poor choice of words, since the slaves were taken from Africa by non Africans.
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JD
May 3rd, 2008 at
7:20 am
What about whiskey?
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Nastia
May 3rd, 2008 at
10:12 am
hic - Africans were enslaving themselves and selling the slaves to the non Africans
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fsmarch
May 3rd, 2008 at
10:14 am
I’ll drink to that!
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Pete
May 3rd, 2008 at
12:55 pm
Hey, you left out the original fermented beverage - MEAD. Mix honey in water, let natural yeasts do their work.
This is probably the first fermented drink because you do not have to convert grains to sugars prior to fermentation, as you do with beer. You also do not need agriculture advanced enough to grow grapes. The bees make the honey for you.
Plus, Vikings drink it. And Vikings are cool. Unless you’re an Irish monk or French peasant or something like that. Then Vikings are not cool. In fact, forget the damn Vikings. I don’t know why you people brought up Vikings. Geez, way to get off topic.
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Thomas
May 3rd, 2008 at
2:28 pm
I second the call for whiskey.
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oscar zoroaster
May 3rd, 2008 at
7:49 pm
oldest booze is from China
“Chemical tests on ancient fragments of broken pottery show that Chinese villagers were brewing alcoholic drinks as far back as 7000 BC. That beats the previous record for the oldest evidence of brewing, found in Iran and dated at about 5400 BC.” http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6759-worlds-earliest-tipple-disc overed-in-china.html
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MJ
May 4th, 2008 at
2:19 am
The french didn’t invent champagne, it was invented by the British. Stephen Fry set us straight with that misconception in QI!
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BenG
May 5th, 2008 at
2:51 pm
Hank Hill said “Is there anything beer can’t do?” Not Homer Simpson.
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Water of life
May 8th, 2008 at
3:11 pm
And what about Whiskey? The first written record of whisky comes from 1405 in Ireland, where it was distilled by monks. It is also mentioned in Scotland in 1496. However it is thought that whiskey had already been around for at least several hundred years prior. When or where whiskey was first distilled is unknown and the local, undocumented beverage production during the period makes identification of the drink’s origin difficult. Additionally, it is possible that different groups discovered processes of distillation completely independently of one another.
Source: wikipedia
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