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

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 ...

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, ...

Neolithic people in China may have been the first in the world to make wine, according to scientists who have found the earliest evidence of winemaking from pottery shards dating from 7000 BC in ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Chinese were consuming fermented beverages — possibly wine — as long as 9,000 ... McGovern’s team collected pieces of 16 pottery vessels at Jiahu, ...

Patrick McGovern, the scientific director of the Penn Museum’s Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages and Health, specializes in the history of fermented beverages. ...

The new findings place China right at the beginning of the worldwide history of fermented beverages. Archaeologists suspect that barley beer may have been made in the Middle East before 7000 B.C ...

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

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