The earliest firm evidence of wine production dates back to 6000 BC in Georgia. Production of alcoholic drinks reflects cultural and religious peculiarities as much as geographical and sociological conditions. Discovery of late Stone Age jugs suggests that fermented beverages existed at least as early as the Neolithic period or about c.10000 BC.
Alcohol likely predates humanity with primates eating fermenting fruit. Malhotra, Richa (23 February 2017). "Our Ancestors Were Drinking Alcohol Before They Were Human". BBC News.
Researchers have found residues of beer13,000 years old beer that they think might have been used for ritual feasts to honor the dead. The world's oldest brewery was discovered in 2018 in a prehistoric burial site in a cave near Haifa in Israel.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December 2004, confirmed that a fermented drink made of grapes, hawthorn berries, honey, and rice was being produced in 7000–6650 BC.
Researchers have found residues of beer13,000 years old beer that they think might have been used for ritual feasts to honor the dead. The world's oldest brewery was discovered in 2018 in a prehistoric burial site in a cave near Haifa in Israel.
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December 2004, confirmed that a fermented drink made of grapes, hawthorn berries, honey, and rice was being produced in 7000–6650 BC.
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