Wine is pretty much your only choice in Macedon though there are many kinds and it can be flavored and served many different ways. To the north you may find drinks made with fermented grains among tribes without grapes, but they will go to great lengths to get wine instead and there is a regular trade with the Hellenes for wine. To the east you may find alcoholic drinks made from fermented milk which Hellenes find disgusting and of course there is beer in Egypt and Mesopotamia. In General, when an ancient Macadonian asks what you would like to drink, they mean what kind of wine.

You can order vodka, but you won’t believe how long its going to take to get it. I have the recipe it’s rather long and involved. It says, first discover a new world on the other side of the earth, then dig up a tuber which you shall call a potato( if you are French, you shall call it a pomme de terre or apple of the earth) and so on and so on.

A nice drink with rum requires the discovery of sugar cane and that will take an amazing amount of time before your order gets here. Anything made from corn mash needs maize and no one in Macedon can possibly see that until the 15th century. If you are willing to wait 1800 years it might be arranged. How about a nice scotch on the rocks? We can have ice cut from the mountain tops, but as for the scotch, we’ll have to wait for those lazy Celts to migrate all the way across Europe, invade the british islands, and get to work. While you are waiting, how about a nice glass of wine........?