A 1953 colloquium pondered the question "Did Man Once Live By Beer Alone?"

This from romancontributions.weebly site:

The wine [of Ancient Rome] was made from grape juice that was extracted by stomping or crushing the grapes in a press. The most prized wine was the juice made by stomping the grapes. When Romans made wine, it was heavily watered down so they could drink large quantities of wine with out getting drunk as fast.

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