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Originally Posted by whswhs
Beer is beer; it's the result of fermentation, and limited by the toxicity of ethanol to the organisms that excrete it. And I believe distilled spirits go up to quite high proofs—absinthe is 70% ethanol, and neutral grain spirit is 95%, the physical limit. Though I suppose if dwarves drank neutral spirits a lot of humans wouldn't be able to cope.
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Or they could drink alcohols other than ethanol, which would make it rather toxic, though we don't have evidence for dwarven metabolism being different enough for that to make sense (and I have no idea what, if anything, the mind-altering effects of other alcohols are)