all those are very edge cases. Normally anybody anywhere would easily make "braga" - a precursor to moonshine - you just need anything with sugar-like carbohydr

all those are very edge cases. Normally anybody anywhere would easily make "braga" - a precursor to moonshine - you just need anything with sugar-like carbohydrate (bread, sugar, sweet fruits, berries or even cabbage, etc.) and a bit of yeast and in like 3 days you have it, a wine-like level of alcohol which is already consumable though taste isn't for everybody. If you have a couple hours more and several pots of varying size and access to a boiling heat (gas/electric stove, camp fire, etc.) you can make moonshine out of that "braga". In that Netflix Mars-flight show the most hard to believe to me moment was when supposedly experienced Russian cosmonaut failed to repair water filter and they were going to die because of this - a Russian cosmonaut would have known about "braga"/"moonshine" distillation and would have been able to build a distilling device out of anything like it had been happening across all the USSR back then.