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Indigenous Americans made alcoholic fermented beverages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_Native_Americans#Precolonial_North_America https://en.wikiped

• BurningFrog 7y ago
  Sure, but I think it was expensive and complicated enough with their technology that becoming an alcoholic was very hard, compared to the modern world with unlimited supply of cheap bottles of hard liquor.
  • cwkoss 7y ago
    I agree, was curious so did some digging and found the results interesting. In addition to lower concentration, I'd imagine the mollusk and tobacco wine wouldn't have been as palatable as contemporaneous whiskey, but I'm not a fan of seafood in general so YMMV. Sounds like indigenous peoples in temperate climates tended to only use alcoholic beverages ceremonially rather than multiple-times-daily of colonists.