It is impressive how easily an alcoholic beverage can be produced. It requires any raw material with ingredients that can be fermented to yield alcohol. In nature, there is an abundance of such materials, such as fruits and grains.

All it takes is to heat the fermented liquid of the raw material to create alcoholic vapors and then condense them. In the simplest case, the condensation can happen on the lid of the container used for heating. These condensed vapors are a kind of alcoholic beverage.

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