List of deities of wine and beer

Deities of wine and beer include a number of agricultural deities associated with the fruits and grains used to produce alcoholic beverages, as well as the processes of fermentation and distillation.

• Acan, Mayan God of alcohol.
• Acratopotes, one of Dionysus' companions and a drinker of unmixed wine.
• Aegir, a Norse divinity associated with ale, beer and mead.
• Aizen Myō-ō, Shinto god of tavern keepers.
• Ampelus, Greek lover of Dionysus transformed into the grapevine.
• Amphictyonis, Greek goddess of wine and friendship.
• Ash, Egyptian God of Wine and Oases.
• Bacchus, Roman god of wine, usually identified with the Greek Dionysus.
• Ba-Maguje, Hausa spirit of drunkenness.
• Bes, Egyptian god, protector of the home, and patron of beer brewers.
• Biersal/Bierasal/Bieresal, Germanic kobold of the beer cellar.
• Ceraon, who watched over the mixing of wine with water.
• Brigid of Kildare, patron saint of brewing.
• Dionysus, Greek god of wine, usually identified with the Roman Bacchus.
• Du Kang, Chinese Sage of wine. Inventor of wine and patron to the alcohol industry.
• Inari, Shinto goddess of sake.
• Li Bai, Chinese god of wine and sage of poetry.
• Liber, a Roman god of wine.
• Liu Ling, Chinese god of wine. One of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
• Mayahuel, Mexican goddess of pulque.
• Methe, Greek personification of drinking and drunkenness.
• Nephthys, Egyptian goddess of beer.
• Ninkasi, Sumerian goddess of beer.
• Nokhubulwane, Zulu goddess of the rainbow, agriculture, rain, and beer.
• Oenotropae, Greek goddesses, "the women who change (anything into) wine".
• Ogoun, Yoruba/West African/Voodoo god of rum.
• Ometochtli, Aztec gods of excess.
• Siduri, wise Mesopotamian female divinity of beer and wine in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
• Silenus, Greek god of wine, wine pressing, and drunkenness.
• Siris, Mesopotamian goddess of beer.
• Sucellus, Celtic god of agriculture, forests, and of the alcoholic drinks of the Gauls.
• Tao Yuanming, Chinese spirit of wine.
• Tenemit, Egyptian goddess of beer.
• Varuni, Hindu goddess of wine.

See also

• Beer goddess
• Religion and alcohol