Fermented and alcoholic beverages have always had their place in the human diet, and researchers found evidence that dates back to ancient China.

Ch. Jiahu, with Hawthorn Accents. Ch. Jiahu, with Hawthorn Accents. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. ... an expert at the University of Pennsylvania on the history of fermented beverages, ...

Analyses of ancient pottery have yielded evidence the people living in northern China 9,000 years ago concocted a fermented, winelike drink from rice, honey, and fruit.

PHILADELPHIA, PA, December 2004--Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed, and preserved, in pottery jars from the Neolithic village of Jiahu, in Henan province, Northern China, have ...

Humans discovered fermentation thousands of years ago, but ancient brews would have tasted much differently from the beers of today.

The result was Chateau Jiahu, brewed with orange blossom honey, muscat grape juice, barley malt and hawthorn fruit and then fermented on sake yeast.

Another site in China from the same time period, Jiahu, ... In ancient times, beer was also likely drunk shortly after it fermented; otherwise, ...