Alcohol

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - Fermented Beginnings
2. Chapter Two - Wine, War, and Worship
3. Chapter Three - Holy Spirits
4. Chapter Four - Distillation Nation
5. Chapter Five - Prohibition and the American Hangover
6. Chapter Six - The Bud Light Century
7. Chapter Seven - What It Actually Does to You
8. Chapter Eight - Drunk Logic
9. Chapter Nine - Ritual, Romance, and Regret
10. Chapter Ten - Texts from the Void
11. Chapter Eleven - Colleges and Kegs
12. Chapter Twelve - Big Booze, Big Busines
13. Chapter Thirteen - Sober Curious and the New Era
14. Chapter Fourteen - Neat, No Ice

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Fermented Beginnings LONG BEFORE HUMANS invented writing, plumbing, or TikTok thirst traps, we discovered something far more important: Rot could make you feel good. It probably happened by accident. Some fruit got too ripe, some honey water sat too long, and some wandering ancestor said, “screw it” and took a sip. Cue the buzz. Cue the dancing. Cue the very first hangover in history. That was it. Alcohol had entered the chat. Alcohol is older than civilization. Way older. Bees made mead before humans made cities. Grapes fermented without permission. Yeast, that invisible microbe MVP, was turning sugar into booze long before we even knew it existed. We’re talking prehistory...