The history of alcohol: everything you wanted to know
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Where Did Alcohol Come From?
Alcohol is derived from the Latin alcohol and its variance, which meant essence or spirit of a substance usually derived through distillation. We can trace that to the 18th century, but it was based on the idea that scientists had identified the actual essence of the substance that made it alcoholic. The earliest clear chemical evidence of beer produced from barley dates to about 3,500 to 3,100 BC from the site of God and Tep in Western Iran.
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