Ancient Brew Discovered in China...

[Rockhopper]

Wine traces found in China, many sore heads!!

People in ancient China may have been enjoying the delights of wine as long as 9,000 years ago, making them the first in the world to enjoy a tipple.
US scientists found traces of the vintage alcohol made from rice, honey and fruit in pottery jars excavated in a Neolithic village in northern China.

Previously, the earliest evidence of beer and wine-making dated from some 7,400 years ago in Iran.

The scientists say the old brewing traditions are still found in China.

The Chinese brew was discovered by researchers led by archaeo-chemist Patrick McGovern, of the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

"Chemical analyses of ancient organics 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," the university said in a statement.

from Here.

Tim.

[Monk (in hiding)]

and the 'erb goes back father than that.

[Agartha]

Men have been making brew and bread since the beginning of forever...two things we can't seem to live without!
lol

[Monk (in hiding)]

[Agartha]

Is that beer for dogs???

[Rockhopper]

Apparently so Ags! 

Alchohol has been around since Ogg got tiddly eating fallen fruit!

Tim.

[Agartha]

Oh yes, and it has always been a 'gift from the gods'.... what was it the ancients Mediterranean called wine: the nectar of the gods?

[Lenzabi]

And the Greeks did have a god of wine

[Rockhopper]

Dioynesis Len. Yep, Ambrosia is the Nectar of the Gods. That's grape wine flavoured with Bay leaves.

Tim.

[Agartha]

And the Romans had Bacchus, the god of agriculture and wine..... people in the Mediterranean used to drink water all the time, whilst in northern countries it was beer.

[Rockhopper]

Yep Ags, beer developed in the northern climes because good wine grapes didn't grow there but barley did. Distill beer and you get Uske (Whiskey)!

Tim.

[Monk (in hiding)]

Or is that Whisky? lsol

[Rockhopper]

Or is that Whisky? lsol

Who cares? 

The real word is  the Gaelic "Uske" (translates as 'Barley Juice' -- banion nmor uske mauger)


Tim.

[Lenzabi]

Humans do like their intake of "spirits"

[Rockhopper]

Especially of the liquid kind Len! 

Tim.

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