Who invented alcohol?
The simple answer is nature did.
Natural growing yeast, found in soils (saccharomyces cerevisiae) eats the naturally occurring sugars in fruit or grain and as a result produces alcohol and carbon dioxide. This process is called fermentation.
The earliest evidence of man actually producing wine is around 8000 BC about the same time man was inventing pottery; it has been recorded in Egypt and Turkey (Chatal Hyuk).
Interesting quotes about alcohol
-“Beer in, Wit out.”- Anon
– “If drinking is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you’re probably an Alcoholic.”- Anon
– “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink and then the drink takes you.”- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
– “It only takes one drink to get me drunk, but I can’t remember if it’s the 13th or 14th”- George Burns
– “Wine hath drowned more men than the sea”- Thomas Fuller
– “You own yourself, so if you want to do something that destroys yourself, go ahead, just don’t harm others when you do.”- Jim Goebel
– “People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”- Ann Landers
– “Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”- Seneca the Younger
– “Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains”- Mary Poole
– “A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into”- Thomas Fuller
– “Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.”- Sir Walter Scott
Famous Alcoholics
Alcoholism has no known social or wealth boundaries.
Here is a list of people that are recovering alcoholics, and a list of people that have died of alcoholism.
It can affect every spectrum of the population, regardless of race, age, upbringing and education. Interestingly the profession of doctors has a higher than average proportion of alcoholics.
Recovering Alcoholics
Tony Adams, ex Arsenal footballer
Zoe Ball, TV and radio representer
Ozzy Osbourne
Ian Brown, English musician
George W. Bush, former U.S president
Roy Keane, footballer
Eric Clapton, English musician
Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), DJ, and producer
David Hasselhoff, actor
George Galloway, former politican
James Hetfield, Metallica lead singer
Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
Christina Ricci, Actress
Anne Robinson, British Game show host
Ringo Starr, Musician
Robin Williams
Richard Attenburgh
Martin Sheen