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- Beer was discovered by accident sometime around 4,000 BCE in Sumer, not invented.
- Beer helped establish some of the first permanent settlements around 10,000 BCE.
- In The Epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian ruler who ruled around 2700 BCE named Gilgamesh had a friend named Enkidu who was given food and beer after being found by a young woman and taken to a shepherd's village.
- Funerary texts inscribed in pyramids around 2350 BCE mentioned the word beer more than any other foodstuff.
- A list of medicine recipes based on beer from around 2100 BCE was found in the Sumerian city of Nippur.

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Marcus Aurelius, Roman leader from 161 - 180 CE.

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- Wine most likely first began to be produced between 9000-4000 BCE in the Zagros Mountains.
- Around 3150 BCE, King Scorpion I of Egypt was buried with 700 jars of wine.
- A pottery jar dated to 5400 BCE was found with a "reddish residue" inside which could be an attempt to store grapes for a long time, resulting in one of the first discoveries of wine in the Zagros Mountains.
- In 170 CE, Galen, Roman ruler Marcus Aurelius' personal physician attended a famous wine tasting on a mission to find his ruler the best tasting wine in the entire cellar. This shows us how important the quality of wine was in Rome.
- In 39 CE, emperor Caligula drank an 160 year aged Opimian Falernius wine which is considered to be the most famous Falernian vintage.

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Sugar Cane plantation where cane was harvested to be made into sugar and molasses to make rum.

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Colonists dumping British tea into the ocean to protest all the acts being passed that taxed important goods.

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- In 1613, an observer from Spain stated that the 300 colonists in the original 13 British colonies had nothing to drink but water.
- 7 years later, the population in the colonies multiplied by 10 and another observer stated their greatest complaint was not having anything to drink. The colonists began making rum out of leftover molasses since it didn't require any direct imports of alcohol to the colonies.
- In 1733, the Molasses Act was passed adding a sixpence per gallon tax on molasses imports from non-British foreign colonies to North America. This affected the colonies because molasses was the most crucial part of making rum, the cheapest spirit.
- On October 29th, 1799 George Washington wrote to his nephew that 200 gallons of whiskey were to be readied for his call. The fact that Washington would send barrels of whiskey to his family meant that it was a commonly enjoyed thing in the colonies since they weren't just being given alcohol at first.
- One colonist in 1697 even made a statement that suggested they might have even preferred drinking rum over wine. "They wonder much of the English for purchasing wine at so dear a rate when Rum is much cheaper ＆ will make them sooner drunk," This tells us that the reliance of cheap spirits in early colonial America it eventually made them question others for drinking any other alcohol.

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Illustration of an old coffeehouse in Jerusalem, Israel

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- People often credit the practice of turning coffee into a drink to a Yemeni scholar named Muhammad al-Dhabhani a few years before 1470 (the year around which he died).
- Coffee quickly spread to the Arab world and reached Cairo and Mecca by around 1510, many embraced it as a legal substitute for alcohol for Muslims.
- Local governor Kha'ir Beg accused coffee of having more intoxicating effects on people than positive and got a council to agree that the drink should be prohibited. His attempts weren't much of a success but it also caused other people to try and shut down coffeehouses later in Mecca and Cairo 1524 and 1539. All these attempts were short-lived and didn't make much of an impact.
- Pope Clement VIII from Italy was asked to state the churches position on coffee in 1605. He supposedly liked the taste so much that Christians were allowed to drink it since then. This was the first adoption of coffee in Europe.
- The allowing of Christians to drink coffee was crucial to the popularity of the drink in Europe. In fact, from 1680-1730 London consumed coffee more than anywhere else in the continent.

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- The first cup of tea was brewed by accident when a tea leaf fell into some boiling water sometime between 2737-2697 BCE in China by emperor Shen Nung (according to Chinese tradition) However, the first unambiguous mention of tea in China was in first century BCE.
- Tea was China's national beverage during their "golden age" the Tang dynasty which lasted from 618-907 CE. It was during that time that the population tripled to exceed fifty million, making it the most populated country of the century.
- In 1191, a Bhuddist monk named Esai visited China and wrote an entire book about teas benefits and went back to Japan. He later then cured the ill shogun Minamoto Sanetomo with homegrown tea, which caused the shogun to advocate for the drink, spreading tea's popularity across Japan.
- Green tea reached France in the 1630s and England in the 1650s. Tea imports to Britain went from 6 tons in 1699 to 11 thousand tons a century later. That doesn't include tea that was smuggled which was a large amount.
- A French visitor in Britain in 1784 commented "throughout the whole of England the drinking of tea is general.... The humblest peasant has his tea twice a day just like the rich man; the total consumption is immense." The rise of tea seemed to shine the most in Britain, where there are the world's biggest tea enthusiasts to this day.

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Pharmacist John S. Pemberton, inventor of Coca-Cola

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- Coca-Cola's direct ancestor, soda water was produced in 1767 by Joseph Priestley in England. It was made by pouring water quickly and roughly between two glasses held over a vat, causing carbon dioxide to dissolve into the water. However, the gas was not yet known as carbon dioxide and the soda water was referred to as sparkling water.
- The creation of Coca-Cola was a long process. It took pharmacist John Pemberton many attempts to create patent medicines but he didn't really get anywhere until he discovered the ingredient coca (a plant that contained cocaine, a highly addictive drug) in 1884.
- Pemberton copied a coca-infused wine formula and added kola nut extract. He masked the bitterness of the two with sugar and sold batches of it as a soda-water flavoring to a pharmacy, asking his nephew for people's opinions on the drink. And by May of 1886 he perfected the formula. His business partner Frank Robinson came up with the name Coca-Cola soon after.
- The company thrived during the Great Depression since it's advertisements presented a world where everyone who drank Coca-Cola was happy. It was a great symbol of America's strength and by the end of the 1930s the company was stronger than ever. Many countries like Russia viewed the drink as controversial since it had became and American symbol of capitalism.
- Now, Coca-Cola is said to be the second most commonly understood phrase right behind the phrase "OK". No other company could match it's global reach and recognization and it has come a long way since a medicinal drink made from coca and kola extract in the 19th century.