Fermented juice like wine, cider and similar things like mead get to around 13% ethanol through the fermentation alone, no special technological magic needed. I think it’s fair to say it was the first method of acquiring alcohol, as it’s very common in nature with, for example, birds getting high from eating not so fresh berries.
Fermented juice like wine, cider and similar things like mead get to around 13% ethanol through the fermentation alone, no special technological magic needed. I think it’s fair to say it was the first method of acquiring alcohol, as it’s very common in nature with, for example, birds getting high from eating not so fresh berries.
Even my dog was drunk walking from eating fallen plums.
Indeed, and potatoes!