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But if you can’t ferment past 15% at the absolute most and you cannot distill, then there might have been different alcohol levels in different “wines”, but non
by dpark 7y ago
But if you can’t ferment past 15% at the absolute most and you cannot distill, then there might have been different alcohol levels in different “wines”, but none would actually be significantly (if at all) stronger than typical modern wines.
- bumby 7y agoI don't believe everything was strictly wine in the modern sense. Some were just "strong" or "intoxicating" drinks that were referred to as "wine" from a clunky translation
- dpark 7y agoUnless they were distilling alcohol it doesn’t really matter because they weren’t getting above about 15% for any “strong” drinks. Your Wikipedia link quotes a book stating that there is no evidence that alcohol was distilled in the ancient world. I don’t know how accurate that is, though.
- bumby 7y agoEarliest references I could find date back to brandy distillation around 1000, which is still a long time after Alexander the Great