"Good Libations" which understands the history of alcohol and alcohol in the world in about 2 minutes

The history of alcohol is old, and there are records that sake was made in ancient Mesopotamia 8500 years ago. Human beings have become familiar with alcoholic culture by fermenting bread, fermenting fruits and rice and repeating trial and error, so that alcohol that has been confirmed existent from the beginning of BC until the present remains There is. A movie that makes the history of such alcohol and liquor come true is released.

Good Libations: A Brief Visual History of Booze - YouTube


◆ 8500 BC: barley beer
The pattern of beer making drawn in cuneiform letters on clay board in the Sumerian civilization of ancient Mesopotamia is recorded. It seems that it was a way of making it by adding water to the bread made from the dried barley flour and fermenting it.


◆ 7000 BC: grapes · honey · rice wine
Also in ancient MesopotamiaVine cultivation intended for wine productionIn the same period in China and what was doneAlcohol that fermented honey, fruit and riceIt was said that it was made.


◆ 3500 BC:Kumis
Fermented milk made by fermenting horse milk, was familiar to nomads such as Mongolia.


◆ 150 BC:Purke
A white liquor like Mexico's dross which ferment juice taken from one kind of agave "Maguay". In modern times it is marketed as a canned beverage in Mexico.


◆ Time unknown:Chicha
Brewed liquor fermented corn often drunk in South America Andean region. It has a sour taste like grape juice.


◆ Unknown: Palm wine (Palm sake)
Brewed liquor made by fermenting liquid that can be taken from palm.


◆ Time unknown:Tonto
Uganda's traditional sake made by fermenting a banana called "banana beer".


◆ 12th century - 15th century: distilled liquor
It is said that distilled liquor, which is a liquor made by distilling brewed alcoholic beverages such as whiskey and vodka, began to be made around the 12th century.


◆ After 1521:Kachassa,Lamb,tequila
Cassiassa is a distilled spirit originating from Brazilian sugarcane. It is thought that rum made from sugar cane as well as tequila made from agave were born at the same time.


◆ 1730's: punch
Speaking of fruit · punch often refers to drinks that do not contain alcohol, but a mixture of distilled alcohol, sugar, lemon juice, water or black tea and spiceThe prototype is dominantAnd that.


◆ 1792:absinthe
Alcohol with herbs made in Europe such as France. Many of them are around 70% alcohol, put a spoon with cubes on the glass, pour absinthe and water, melt the sugar, drink water and drink traditional way. Although it was drunk by 19th century French artists, symptoms such as hallucinations appeared in ingredients included in Niga wormwood, so now it is prohibited to manufacture and sell absinthe same ingredients as at that time.


◆ 1795:eggnog
It is said that cocktails made with milk, cream, sugar, alcohol, etc. are said to originate in the UK, but in the United States it is often drunk on a congratulatory day such as Thanksgiving Day.


◆ 1800's:Old fashioned cocktail
A generic term for whiskey based cocktails, it is said that America is the birthplace.


◆ 1800's:Jin tonic
A long cocktail that is said to have been born because it was very popular when mixing gin to tonic water which was drunk as a soft drink for British people. It is familiar all over the world now.


◆ 1850:Pimus
Around 1840 - 1850, James Pim who started the oyster bar in London made a long cocktail made from liqueur or citrus fruit based on gin. It is still sold as a brand of bottles as it is.


◆ 1862:Blue / Blazer
It is known as a cocktail sparkling fire. It is a cocktail containing performance that shows Schech · Whiskey and a line of fire that rises when igniting boiling water, some on YouTube,Movie making Blue / BlazerIt is open to the public.


◆ 1863:Coca wine
Alcoholic beverages combining extracts of wine and coca. At the same time as the ban on cocaine, the beverage itself was also prohibited.


◆ 1870's:Manhattan
A short cocktail based on whiskey which is also called "queen of cocktails".


◆ 1880:Martini
A gin-based short cocktail, also called "King of Cocktails".


◆ 1905:Daikiri
Short cocktail of rum with lime juice and sugar. "Frozen · Daikiri" made by putting crushed ice is known as a cocktail loved by writer Ernesto Hemingway.


◆ 1919:Negroni
Long cocktail combined with Campari, Vermouth, Dry · Jin. It is said that Italy · Florence is the birthplace.


◆ 1921:Bloody Mary
Long cocktail adding tomato juice and lemon based on vodka. We also add vegetables such as celery and add some Tabasco.


◆ 1934:Zombie cocktail
Long cocktail made by putting liqueurs etc in several kinds of rum. He was born in a restaurant in Hollywood, USA.


◆ 1940's:Margarita
Short cocktail based on tequila with liqueur or lemon juice. It seems that there are various opinions such as the name of a Spanish woman as an etymology and the name of a former lover of a bartender who invented it.


◆ 1948:Bellini
Popular cocktail for women based on wine with peach puree and syrup. It is said to have imaged the painter Giovanni Bellini during the Renaissance period.


◆ 2002: Energy Drink with Alcohol
There are cocktails that divide energy drinks such as Red Bull by vodka or gin, but as a canned drink containing alcohol from the beginningSparks"Etc are also on sale.


◆ 2010: High alcohol beer
It was released in 2010BrewDogAlcohol content of beer is 55% how.