Can anyone who is currently up help me find the origin of alcohol?

[Nocturnal]

Like the very beginning of time... something like a brief overview of alcohol and when it was first discoverd, by whom, who used it, etc etc.

I need it by today!!! Please help me if you care about a fellow pracrastinating ATOTER!

 

[KingNothing]

According to my World Civ I teacher, beer was invented in the Neolithic age between 8000 and 1500 BCE. She claims that beer was not their most important accomplishment.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Try this for info on the word

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Alcohol was invented by microorganisms, of which the best known is yeast, many hundreds of millions of years ago. These little creatures consume sugars and produce ethanol as a byproduct. Now whenever humans had enough on the ball to gather fruit or grains in quantity, our friendly saccharomyces cerevisiae (the yeast that we use to make beer and bread) was there too, and always a party kind of microbe, started downing sugars and peeing out ethanol. Early man, ever frugal, did not waste the fermented brew and promptly got drunk. This would have indeed been a neolithic event.

Beer may have built the pyramids, because they certainly had it, as records from that time indicate the Egyptians imbibed. There is a serious academic hypothesis that beer made the long hard work of construction bearable. No one knows for sure who did it first, as it happened long before recorded history, but the discovery must have happened in warmer climates that microbes like, and probably by many people at many different times.

 

[Darein]

Ranks up there among fire and the wheel as greatest invention in time. Helped get humans through some rough times, ie when water was basically undrinkable.

 

[Nocturnal]

Ok better yet, Origin of alcohol (Of human usage) -- Basically from when we, as humans, started intaking it to get drunk.

Any origins for that???

 

[Nitemare]

Beer has been around about as long as man. I know the ancient Egyptians had a beer like substance. Babylonia and Sumer probably did as well.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I think Hayabusarider is closest to anyone. You just asked about the origin of water.... Alcohol is a product of the fermentation process. It's not as difficult as one would think. Yeast isn't even required, it just speeds the process.

 

[Jfur]

it was a natural process as fruit fell to the grouns and was fermented. Animals, eventually including humand, would sometimes partake and get really drunk.

 

[MichaelD]

Thousands of years ago, right after Neanderthal man developed the concept of "marriage" and "cohabitation", the need for a senses-dulling, pain-killing agent arose.

Thus, alcohol was invented/discovered.

And there you have it.

 

[XZeroII]

Al Gore: I invented Alcohol