Girly Drinks

Mead

The first known alcoholic drink of fermented honey and water. Aka honey wine

Mesopotamia

A region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. (Now known as Iraq) Where people started to grow crops specifically to turn into alcohol.

Kash

aka beer brewed by the women of Uruk.

Ninkasi

Sumerian goddess of beer

The drunkenness of harbor

Festival celebrating Egyptian goddess Hathor for forgetting to destroy humanity in a drunken state

Hek

Egyptian beer

The code of Hammurabi

282 laws created by a Babylonian king to unite Mesopotamia. The beginning of gendering alcohol. l k

Ancient Greek wine

Diluted with saltwater and other ingredients (like honey, spices, herbs and oil) to enhance the taste.

Amber wine

When the skins and seeds of red grapes are left in contact with the juice during the wine making process. Leaves a deep orange hue.

Etruria

Ancient country in Central Italy that allowed women to drink when neighboring Greece didn't.

Passum

A wine made from raisins. Roman women apart of the convivium (romes symposium) were only allowed to drink this. Sweeter with a lower alcohol content. Worlds first girly drink.

Hildegard von Bingen

Nun during the medieval times in Europe who made IPAs popular. The first to recognize hops inhibit spoilage in beer.

Northern European alewives additives

Herbs like juniper, caraway and yarrow

English alewives additives

Rosemary, sycamore sap and ivy

German alewives additives

Mint, marjoram, sage and acorns

Alehouse

Women in medieval times put out stakes to signify they had brewed ale.

Hops

Little cone shaped flowers of the humulus lupulus plant. Bitter flavoring of beer.