More than 180 years ago, two friends started a distillery in northern France to make grain alcohol and Dutch gin. Soon after, ...

A new fad brewing comes from ancient experiments in Africa around 4,000 B.C. Ancestral beer is a new unpasteurized alcohol from once upon a time when Egyptians transformed malt and yeast into humanity ...

The history of alcohol is traced from a 13,000 BCE fermented wheat-and-barley drink in a burial cave near Haifa to early rice ...

For 25 years, UC Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley has been intrigued by humans' love of alcohol. In 2014, he wrote a book proposing that our attraction to booze arose millions of years ago, when our ...