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Old 01-13-2013, 07:32 PM   #33
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: Dwarven Governance & Economics?

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
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.
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)

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