Alcohol History

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- Alcohol, part of daily lives of ancient people because they believe that alcohol is a source of nutrient.

- Used as medicine, antiseptic(for bacteria), analgesic(pain reliever, biogesic, tempra),


tranquilizer(nakakakalma) if moderately, it promotes relaxation, pharmacological, therapeutic effects
(there benefits and can be useful sa katawan),

- Alcohol has a big role!

ANCIENT PERIOD

- Discovered verifiable brewery


- Found in burial site (kweba ang libingan noon)
- Israel nadiscover yung 13,00 na beer
- Alcohol is part of ritual in honor of deaths
- Material can be wheat or barley based
- Stone Age yung beer mugs
- Agricultural revolution
- Beer becomes staple

EGYPTIAN ERA

- Alcohol continues
- Consider alcohol as something that gives pleasure, nutrition, medicine, part of ritual (deaths),
can be a form of payment (barter), funerary purposes

BABYLON

- Beer becomes major beverage


- They have gods and goddesses so may wine goddess and deities
- Famous code of Hammurabi to address alcohol (penalties, rules, laws to regulate the
consumption of alcohol and to have fair commerce).

CHINA

- Consider beer as spiritual/mental food rather than material food


- Wise people para makapag isip g maigi, they have to drink alcohol
- Part of their lives

GREECE

- Popularity of Mead (fermented water and honey)


- Factory (common place) for fermented beverage. Dun na mina manufacture
- There are variations (flavor). Such as plain, spice, etc.

HEBREWS

- Countries like Palestine, Nazareth . people there are Hebrew and the religion Is Judaism
- Vonsider alcohol as major source of nourishment, medicine, and one very important
commodity. Pinambabayad sa barter
PERSIANS

- King of Persia is the one who imposes moderate drinking (King Cyrus)
- Can prolonged life but liver is affected

ROMANS/ROME

- Practiced moderate drinking


- Values of temperance
- Excessive drinking processes (because of more consumption of alcohol, there are problems like
crimes.
- Cato the Elder- alcohol before has been noted and very destructive in terms of the drinking
behavior of people (radical behavior), di ma control emotion.

EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD

- Christianity begins, After Death of Jesus Christ (start of wine making)


- New Testament
- Bible (miracle at the wedding of)
- Consider wine as creation of God
- They rejected alcohol in 4th and 5th century. There are adherence to religious opinion contrary to
church dogma

VITICULTURE- people began cultivating grapes (nagtatanim na) to make wine

- Monks discovered how to ferment to make wines


- Vinyard and wine became staple

MIDDLE AGES

- Start of monasteries and their job is to make wine


- Aside from mead, we now have rustic beer ( pino produce sa malalayong lugar
- Mead- yeast and malt
- Wild Fruits

BLACK DEATH under ng middle ages

EARLY MODERN PERIOD

- Introduction to protestants
- Martin Luther nag introduce ng Protestantism(there are a lot of ideas to different religions are
made)
- Protestants consider alcohol as gift from God. Something gives pleasure, enjoyment, and health
- But too much is a sin!

17TH CENTURY

- Considered alcohol as natural


- Beer is essential and well being of people
DIFFERENT DRINKS THAT MADE OR DISCOVERED

CHAMPAGNE

- (king of all beverages), made of 3 blended grapes (green, black, white, etc.
- - chardonnay (green), pinonoir, meunier(

DON PERIGNON

- vintage champagne

WHISKY

- Scotch (scotch on the rocks), borbon, single mouth wishky, iris whisky, blended w.

RUMA

- Sailer jeris spice


- Made from sugar cane

GIN

- Made from jnever berries


- US manufactured 100% of gin

18TH CENTURY

- Excessive use of consumption of beer


- Consumption of Gin has been discouraged. (proceed to module)
- Tea and coffee was discovered (may effect sa katawan since nakakpag energized)
 There are lots of problems because of the use of alcohol.
 As a conclusion, alcohol plays a vital role and it ha sbeen recorded way back history
 Drink alcohol in moderation
 Read labels (for allergic reactions in ingredients used)

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