1919 Home made beverages

PREFACE THE Persian astronomer, sage, and one- time tent maker for other people — Omar Khayyam — was one of the first to extol the merits of vinous beverages:

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We probably owe the first "household" wine manufactured to that able Naval Constructor named Noah; for he planted and cultivated the vine. Bacchus was the reputed inventor of fermented wine; Osiris was the originator of beer in the torrid clime of Egypt, and for many centuries the world had to exist on what we have heard so much of lately "Light wines and beer." It was reserved for those hoary Arabian chemists and alchemists, it makes little difference which, to discover the process of extracting the spirituous part in which the strength lies, namely, by distilla- vii.