Who Wants A 5000 Year Old Cocktail?
For all those mixologists and cocktail bartenders here is where it all began...
The first cocktail ever was made in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago, using a combination wine, beer, apple juice and honey no one is quite sure but it is said that it could have been quite by accident that the cocktail was created. Patrick McGovern defined the mix as 'grog', an archaic drink in the United states, McGovern was a Professor at Pennsylvania University.
Professor McGovern noted the history of the evolution of wine-making from various regions around the world, proving how in some terracotta containers there were traces of tartaric acid (obtained during grape fermentation), honey, apples and fermented barley.
'Grog' was also used by Etruscans, as is proved through containers found in southern Tuscany, in a convention it was highlighted that the sylvan grapes were present in Etruria 6,000 years ago, long before the Greeks had ever established a wine culture. Basically the Etruscans knew wine, so its use could have been already known before the Greeks in the Mediterranean.
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Professor McGovern noted the history of the evolution of wine-making from various regions around the world, proving how in some terracotta containers there were traces of tartaric acid (obtained during grape fermentation), honey, apples and fermented barley.
'Grog' was also used by Etruscans, as is proved through containers found in southern Tuscany, in a convention it was highlighted that the sylvan grapes were present in Etruria 6,000 years ago, long before the Greeks had ever established a wine culture. Basically the Etruscans knew wine, so its use could have been already known before the Greeks in the Mediterranean.
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Beer For quality online beer info check it out

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