TOPIC: Have Jews used alcohol historically to control the goyim?

Damn jews were then the first to settle the Americas and produced chicha for millennia...?

Not sure if it is saying that Catholic monks created the first alcohol or not but alcohol has been around long before monks.

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Evidence has been found by archaeologists in late Stone Age jugs that they intentionally created fermented drinks.

Similar archaeological findings in China dating back to about 7,000 BC indicate that they had worked out how to ferment a combination of honey, rice and fruit. Interestingly, China has stuck with the evolvement of rice based fermentation through to the modern day.

Egyptian history has records of beer being produced and consumed around 3,400 BC. The ancient remains of the world’s oldest brewery still exist in Heirakonpolis in Egypt today and when it was in full production it is thought that it was capable of producing up to three hundred gallons of beer a day. The Ancient Egyptians made 17 types of beer and 24 varieties of wine. It was so important in society that it was offered in worship to their Gods.

Alcohol in varying forms was being developed at different sites around the world during a similar time period. In India there was a rice drink between 3,000 and 2,000 BC. In Greece they created a drink known as mead from honey and water.

Some of the main Greek philosophers mention alcohol, Hippocrates identified the many medicinal properties of wine and its therapeutic application, Plato was supportive of promoting the moderate consumption of alcohol but both Plato and Aristotle were unfavourable towards drunkenness.

Babylonian history indicates that they were worshipping a goddess of wine around 2,700 BC.

The Romans eventually favoured wine over beer. The wine was watered down but it was required in such vast quantities that they ensured wine-making production spread throughout their Empire.

Although there are examples of distillation by the Greeks as early as the 1st century AD, it wasn’t until the 16th Century that spirits began to feature in society for consumption, which was initially mainly for medicinal purposes.

A popular saying goes that the 16th Century created spirits, the 17th Century consolidated them and the 18th Century popularized them. Another well-known alcoholic beverage which was created during the 17th Century was sparkling champagne. In the 18th Century the British Parliament passed a law encouraging the production of distilled spirits using grain, but this back-fired as production did increase and cheap spirits became widely available by the mid-18th Century to the point that alcoholism became a recognized problem.

In contrast to the 18th Century, a change in attitude and a push for temperance prevailed in the 19th Century – resulting in the Prohibition of manufacture, sale or consumption of alcohol in the USA between 1920 and 1933. Since then an ever increasing knowledge and continued research on the negative effects of over-indulgence in alcohol and its impact on health has slowly changed social attitudes to promote a sensible approach to alcohol consumption which prevails today.

www.whoinvented.org/who-invented-alcohol/

Some Bible Verses About Drinking Alcohol

Proverbs 20:1 - Wine [is] a mocker, strong drink [is] raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Proverbs 23:20-21
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe [a man] with rags.

Proverbs 23:29-35
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright.

32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say, and] I was not sick; they have beaten me, [and] I felt [it] not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

Isaiah 5:11 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!

Isaiah 5:22 - Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

Ephesians 5:18 - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

1 Timothy 3:8 - Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Romans 14:21 - [It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;

www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Alcohol/

According to an opinion expressed in the Talmud, the "Tree" of Knowledge was actually a grapevine. Thus it was the fruit of the vine that tripped up Adam and Eve, causing them and their descendents untold hardship and misery.
www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/581082/jewish/What-is-Judaisms-take-on-alcohol-consumption.htm

"Jews in Eastern Europe were heavily involved in the production and sale of liquor"
www.rabbiwein.com/blog/alcohol-and-the-jews-220.html

For over hundreds of years many Eastern European Jews distilled alcohol, and worked in distilleries and bars. From the mid 18th century over 80% of rural Jews in Poland were involved in either the production or sale of alcohol, with many renting bars from local landowners.

Holland explained that the Jewish alcohol production fell into three distinct categories.


Manuscript filled with liquor recipes (Photo: Israel National Library)

The first was called Ya'sh (an acronym for burnt wine') which included distilling alcohol from widely available materials, like potatoes, barley, prunes and local berries. This was the booze sold to local gentiles, but Jews would also take a swig or two on Saturdays, holidays and special occasions like weddings Haredi 'tish' events or Hassidic conferences.

The second group included wine made from raisins and was intended almost exclusively for Jews. Jewish religious law demands Kiddush involve wine made from grapes, which is one of the seven species which grew in the biblical Holy land. But no such materials could be found the in the cold of east Europe where little to no grapes grow, and therefore Jews began to make wine from raisins, through a process of formation.

The third group was preserving fruits in alcohol. Because the spring and summer brought with them a wide and plentiful variety of fruits, and because refrigerators had not yet been invented, fruits were preserved in two ways: Jam or liqueur. The word liquor, much like liqueur comes from the Latin word liquifacere – from the root of liquefy – because the fruits would turn into a liquid during the process. Thus flavored liqueurs were born.

www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4626302,00.html

Surprisingly (actually not so surprisingly), there was a significant tradition of Jews involved in both the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in Eastern Europe.

Jews leased taverns and breweries from landed aristocracy.

The production and sale of alcohol was a lucrative business, and the nobility preferred Jews to manage their taverns because the Jews were believed to be better businessmen.

An 18th century census of the Jews of Poland indicated that approximately 80 percent of the Jews living in villages and 14 percent of those living in urban areas were involved in the production or sale of alcohol. By the 19th century, the image of a Jewish tavern-keeper was a common feature in Polish literature.

web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/library/news/newsletter/2014/april_2014/Pages/bartending_jews.aspx