Top 7 Chinese Inventions - Page 5 of 9

Alcoholic beverages and the first hangovers

If you have nobody to blame for your Sunday hangover, you can blame the Chinese. Du Kang and Yi Di were the legendary developers of the alcohol distillation process and the first evidence regarding the original 5% alcoholic beverages dates from 2000 B.C. However, stronger alcohol (11%) via the introduction of cooked grains would only discovered approximately 1000 years later.