While European settlers certainly did bring their fair share of modern evils to the New World — and despite what you ’ve in all probability heard — alcohol was n’t one of them .
In fact , people have been brewing beer since as far back as 12,000 BCduring the Late Epipaleolithic era . After all , all it takes are some stone tools , a local grain , and a can - do attitude , all of which Native Americans possessed . As Today I find Out explain :
In Mexico , some believe Native Americans used a corn precursor to make a brewed drink;they note : “ the patrimonial grass of forward-looking lemon , teosinte , was well suited for making beer – but was much less so for making corn flour . ” In addition , it is well institute that Mexican Native Americans prepared “ over forty different alcoholic beverages [ from ] . . . a variety of plant substances , such as honey , palm sap , wild plum tree , and pineapple . “
In the Southwestern U.S. , the Papago , Piman , Apache and Maricopa all used the saguaro cactus to bring out a wine , sometimes calledharen a Acanthocereus pentagonus . Similarly , the Apache fermented corn to make tiswin(also called tulpi and tulapai ) and the yucca plant to make a unlike alcoholic beverage .
Of naturally , none of these were much solid than wine-colored , so the whiskey and grain alcohol brought over by the Europeans was likely far stronger than anything they ’d know so far .
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