“Shake it and the air starts to fly!
Then the cap stops it with a sigh!
Then again when the cap is gone!
The fizz from the can goes to Town!”
Fermentation is a natural metabolic process whereby microorganisms convert
sugars like glucose into other organic molecules and gases, including alcohol.
Fermentation within cells dates back to the age of anaerobic (oxygenless)
respiration more than 3 billion years ago, but it also occurs in single-celled
eukaryotes and more complex multicellular organisms that have evolved and
thrived in Earth’s more recent oxygen-rich environment.
It is perhaps not difficult to imagine that some late Neolithic (Stone Age) farmers or others who observed bubbles fizzing out of rotting (fermenting) stores of fruit or grain might have wondered what was going on and investigated further.
This investigation would have lead them to a by product of the rotten grains!
Then there would have been another maverick who would have got bored and thought, “now that is a liquid which I must taste!” Or maybe it was a part of a Neo lithic game of truth or dare!
Anyway there would have been several who would later tasted the liquid and then would have felt something warm or nice! Or it could have been just the desperate attempt of a homeless and hungry and thirsty man or woman who would have felt warm and ‘nice’ drinking that product!
And that’s how my friends, the first beverage or spirit was prepared and ingested!
Of course for a teetotal like me, that’s just a nice piece of interesting history! History and historical also is our own real life James bond Ajit Kumar Doval!
Now drink, some warm water and sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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