| So, why do we drink alcohol? Any idea? Yes, to get | | | | years. (No doubt the guy who invented the wheel |
| drunk I know, but what I mean is why do we drink | | | | had a beer to celebrate, then crashed into a |
| alcohol as a species, why is it a social activity and | | | | mammoth). |
| when did it all begin? Actually no-one can be sure | | | | It's believed by some that beer, in it's original form of |
| when the first alcohol was imbibed as our hairy | | | | a thick gloopy substance full of nutrients predated |
| ancestors no doubt ate any fermenting fruit they | | | | bread as a staple, but certainly one was the |
| happened across, but made-for-purpose beer jugs | | | | by-product of the other. In fact the Saxons used to |
| dating back 12,000 years have been found by | | | | refer to beer as "liquid bread" (Saxons weren't |
| archaeologists. Which means, remarkably, that beer | | | | renowned for their sandwiches). |
| was invented before the wheel, by about 2,000 | | | | |
