>>21451657
>but you'll need some hard evidence that Civilization managed to come about after what would be a significant brain-drain caused by the intentional and intentional abuse of ethanol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqefet_Cave
13,000 year old brewery. That's from the paleolithic era. Or, for the slower like you, before civilization. Of course, everyone already knew alcohol was widespread everywhere, that's not up for debate. Beyond beer, it's basically impossible to leave natural fruit alone without turning into alcohol on its own. Go ahead and pick some apples and do nothing, just chuck them in a pot. It will be cider in no time, converted by the yeast that is on the skin. Same goes for honey, mix it with water and leave it alone and you will have mead in no time. Which another pre-civilization society spread across the world, there's a reason the word for honey in Irish Gaelic is related to the Japanese word for honey, and that's the Indo-Europeans who spread mead to the corners of the earth, literally straight from the Pacific to the Atlantic and everywhere inbetween.
>And ethanol is not a food,
That's the most retarded and wrong thing you've said so far. And you've already been extremely retarded and wrong, so that's impressive. Not only was it historically an essential part of a normal person's diet, it is indisputably a food. Ethanol is nearly as energy dense as eating straight fat. What even is food, if not something your body converts into energy? You have some other definition?

Recap:
>People have been intentionally producing alcohol at scale for a minimum 13,000 years, likely longer as fruit alcohol production requires no infrastructure and leaves little to no evidence
>Alcohol was so important it was one of the most universal cultural exports of the Indo-Europeans, spreading faster than the fucking wheel and horse
>Alcohol is food and always has been, it is the most reliable and safe way to preserve food naturally