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People began cultivating barley and wheat in the Fertile Crescent for the first time to make beer.
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Pottery was invented which was used to brew beer in although beer could be brewed in pitch-lined baskets, leather bags or animal stomachs, hollowed-out trees, large shells, or stone vessels before pottery was invented.
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Farming began to spread throughout the Fertile Crescent because more plant and animals were being domestication and new irrigation techniques made farming possible in more places.
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Beer was widespread in eastern Mesopotamia and this is proved when it appeared in a pictogram from Mesopotamia.
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King Scorpion I was buried with seven hundred jars of wine which was imported from the southern Levant, a significant wine producing area at the time.
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According to Chinese tradition, the first cup of tea was brewed by the emperor Shen Nun, China's second legendary emperor.
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Beer drinking was seen as a hallmark of civilization by the Mesopotamians and this is shown in the Epic of Gilgamesh when Enkidu drank beer and ate the food he was given which resulted in him becoming a human.
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Vines were being cultivated in Crete and possibly mainland Greece to make wine.
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During the Peloponnesian war, spartan troops arrived at Acanthus which was a wine producing city that was allied with Athens. The locals were scared of loosing their grapes so they decided to change allegiances.
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Roman writer Pliny the Elder estimated that there were eighty different noteworthy types of wine in the Roman world. Two thirds of it was grown in Italy.
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The Italian peninsula became the world's foremost wine producing region because wine was the only product being exported in it.
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In China, tea became the national beverage during the Tang dynasty and people began deliberately cultivating tea instead of harvesting the leaves from wild bushes.
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A Buddhist monk named Eisai brought the latest Chinese knowledge about the growing, picking, preparation, and drinking of tea. Eisai also wrote a book about the health benefits of tea.
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Arnald of Villanova made instructions for distilling wine who believed in its therapeutic power.
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Charles II of Navarre was suffering from paralysis and a fever. His doctors decided to distill wine which was said to have miraculous healing powers.
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The process of distillation began to spread thanks to the invention of the printing press.
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Coffee had been adopted by Sufis who used it to stay awake during late night religious ceremonies where the participants reached out to God through repetitive chanting and swaying.
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The first printed book about distillation was published in Augsburg and it was written by Michael Puff Von Schrick.
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Distilling wine in your own home was banned in the German city of Nuremberg because too many people were drinking too much.
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Many Muslim scholars claimed coffee was intoxicating like alcoholic beverages are so they attempted to ban it in Mecca.
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A Dutch ship brought the first small commercial consignment of tea to Europe, where it was regarded as a novelty.
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Tea was enjoyed by the aristocracy for a short amount of time in France. They also drank tea with milk for the flavor and to reduce its temperature.
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London's first coffeehouse was opened by Pasqua Rosee, the Armenian servant of an English merchant who acquired a taste for coffee while traveling in the Middle East.
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France's first coffeehouse opened in Marseilles where doctors said coffee was bad for your health. Coffee still continued to spread even though this was said about it.
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Sylvestre Dufour stated "Coffee sobers you up instantaneously" and the idea that coffee counteracts intoxication still remains today but there is little truth to it.
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Joseph Priestley published a book explaining how to make soda water.
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Soda water beverages were only used for medicinal purposes when doctors would prescribe them for various ailments but around this time they were not strictly medicinal.
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The first advertisement for COCA-COLA appeared in the Atlanta Journal. The drink had launched just in time for Atlanta's experiment with prohibition.
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John Pemberton had sold two-thirds of his coca-cola rights to two businessmen because he was unwell and wanted to raise some money.
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Sales of coca-cola quadrupled after Asa Candler got the rights to it. Candler decided to abandon his other products because they were not as popular as COCA-COLA.
