Note 4 at 1 Cor. 11:21: The first instance of drunkenness recorded in the scriptures was Noah (Gen. 9:21). According to Smith's Bible Dictionary, the Hebrews had various intoxicating beverages including (1) beer; (2) cider, i.e. apple wine; (3) honey wine; (4) wine; and (5) various homemade wines made from figs, millet, and fruit, etc. (Smith, Bib. Dict., s.v.).

Drunkenness and it's effects are condemned in the scripture (Rom. 13:13-14, Eph. 5:18; 1 Th. 5:7-8). Some of the traits associated with drunkenness are: stubbornness and rebellion (Dt. 21:20), unrighteousness of every kind (1 Cor. 6:9-10), woe, sorrow, contentions, babblings, wounds, redness of eyes (Prov. 23:29), fornication (Prov. 23:33; Hab. 2:15), cursing (Prov. 23:33), addiction (Prov. 23:35), forgetting God's law and perverting judgment (Prov. 31:5), pride (Isa. 28:1), sickness (Hos. 7:5), numbness and loss of awareness (Lk. 21:34), and poverty (Prov. 21:17; 23:21).

All of these manifestations of the flesh are closely related to and spring forth from the sin of drunkenness (see ref. k at this verse).