Beverages during ancient Roman

Romans did not drink pure wine but mixed it in varying proportions with water and they sometimes flavored it with honey or with resins. Romans, rich and poor drank wine with their meals.

Even the poorest Roman could afford a jug of posca, vinegar mixed with enough water to make it drinkable.

The Romans wine was considerably more cloudy and rich in sediment. Roman historians report that wine and other alcoholic beverages played a vital role in their societies. The fun-loving Romans went as far as worshipping a beverage deity: Bacchus, the god of wine.

Wine and brew shop could be found at every street corner of ancient Rome.

The ancient Romans also perfected the glass bottle as a beverage container. Transparent wine bottles allowed their content to be seen and served to enhance the attractiveness of the beverage.

During the second BC, as Rome’s political, military and commercial interest extended northward in Europe, Roman trade goods spread across the continent.

Caesar led expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC. Romans introduced wine to Britain, in the early first century BC.

Beer also remained prominent being a beverage of choice for many of the every troops safeguarding Roman dominance in Britain. The ancient Romans produced a beverage from corn, which they called cerevisia, the gift of Ceres. Theophrastus speaks of it as intoxicating and calls it the wine of barley.

At Manching in southern Germany, Roman wine amphoras appear already early in the second century BC. 

The wines produced in the sloped of Vesuvius were particularly renowned; the fertile volcanic soil there was cultivated almost up to the edges of the crater until the eruption of 79 AD.
Beverages during ancient Roman