L'chaim! (I know, it seems a week late, but it's still relevant, at least a little bit.)

This week's reading (and last week's reading) got me to thinking about a history of beer (and this awesome concise timeline of beer history) which got me to thinking about the history of mead and Kosher Nostra's point about mead pre-dating wine. So here, for your perusing pleasure, is an Alcohol History Timeline.