When Did Humans Start Drinking?

[spike.t]

This is brilliant......makes perfect sense ...

 

[analog_peninsula]

And I thought it was immediately after the institution of marriage.

 

[uplander01]

It all makes sense now,....my desire for Two Hearted Ale every day.

 

[Sideshow]

This is brilliant......makes perfect sense ...

Soooo the oldest pub is in Turkey

 

[Clayton Holland]

Gobekli Tepi was a pub?

 

[kpoynter]

alcohol is the entire reason for Civilization! I knew it….

 

[Hedge774]

About 1:00, Why??

 

[jruby]

My grandfather was a vintner from Hungary. He immigrated to the US and bought a small farm outside St. Johns Michigan back in the 30's. He continued to make wine and started a small orchard. After he passed my father bought the property from my grandmother. My dad fenced the orchard in and made it a grazing area for beef cattle and a couple of quarter horses. During the fall the cattle and horses would compete for the apples and pears when they rotted and fell from the trees. The fermented fruit would occassionally get the horses and cattle pretty drunk. It was not uncommon to have the animals run to the fallen fruit when it hit the ground. I remember a few times the horses would get there first and kick the hell out of the cattle to get the fruit. Its not hard to remember this and think that maybe a long long time ago that something like this was the inspiration for alcohol.

 

[Hedge774]

My grandfather was a vintner from Hungary. He immigrated to the US and bought a small farm outside St. Johns Michigan back in the 30's. He continued to make wine and started a small orchard. After he passed my father bought the property from my grandmother. My dad fenced the orchard in and made it a grazing area for beef cattle and a couple of quarter horses. During the fall the cattle and horses would compete for the apples and pears when they rotted and fell from the trees. The fermented fruit would occassionally get the horses and cattle pretty drunk. It was not uncommon to have the animals run to the fallen fruit when it hit the ground. I remember a few times the horses would get there first and kick the hell out of the cattle to get the fruit. Its not hard to remember this and think that maybe a long long time ago that something like this was the inspiration for alcohol.

I vaguely remember a keg party with similar occurrences...

 

[Safari Dave]

As soon as we found fermented fruit.

 

[Paul K]

I have always had a taste for beer every since I was a child and could take it or leave it then, but after my first 2 years of marriage, a little more, after 54 more years ,a Lot more, and I mean a lot. Some how it muffles my wifes mouth and I can't hear a thing she is bitching about , beer is a blessing from the man above, Praise the Lord !

Paul

 

[Safari Dave]

When I was about 5 years old, our family went to Busch Gardens near Tampa, FL.

At the end of the amusement park, I think you exited through a brewery, where they had small sample cups.

Not that bad, as I recall...

 

['68boy]

Beer is proof that God loves us..... Ben Franklin

 

[Ontario Hunter]

For a certain ethic group often seen looking for cigarette butts in the Walmart parking lot, drinking alcohol usually starts about a half hour before conception.

 

[Sideshow]

Gobekli Tepi was a pub?

What else would you call a fancy house? You build to drink beer in

 

[Ontario Hunter]

I have always had a taste for beer every since I was a child and could take it or leave it then, but after my first 2 years of marriage, a little more, after 54 more years ,a Lot more, and I mean a lot. Some how it muffles my wifes mouth and I can't hear a thing she is bitching about , beer is a blessing from the man above, Praise the Lord !

Paul

Paul, you need to get hearing aids like mine. These are blue toothed to my phone. I can bring up Spotify on my new Google Pixel and listen to Emmy Lou Harris or Willie Nelson in full stereo while others are blabbing away. Wonderful at church where our pastor has recently taken to giving lengthy sermons. Keeps me awake so my snoring doesn't drown her out.