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Being intoxicated had desirable spiritual significance to the ancient Egyptians. They often gave their children names like “How Drunk is Cheops” or “How Intoxicated is Hathor.”

Beer is mixed with saliva and blood for a drink that is shared when two Chagga men become blood brothers.

At the request of a distiller, Louis Pasteur began his pioneering research by investigating the process of fermentation, by which all alcohol beverages and many other foods are produced.

Among the Bagonda people of Uganda, the several widows of a recently deceased king have the distinctive honor of drinking the beer in which his entrails have been cleaned.

As Magellan prepared to sail around the world in 1519, he spent more on Sherry than on weapons.

Between 1980 and 1996, over 2,300 anti-drunk-driving laws were passed in the U.S. If laws could solve a problem, there wouldn’t be any drunk driving today!

As late as the mid-17th century, the French wine makers did not use corks. Instead, they used oil-soaked rags stuffed into the necks of bottles.

Sixty-two percent of Americans report that they have used the service of a designated driver.

Winston Churchill’s mother invented the Manhattan cocktail (whiskey and sweet vermouth)

Wine has about the same number of calories as an equal amount of grape juice.