Alcohol is distilled from sugar and its relatives. Glucose and its ilk.
Ever eaten a grape?
Ever eaten a grape?
And alcohol is a children's drink that an adult left out because life was too hectic and I'm really thirsty so I'll just finish this apple juice that's been in my car since Saturday-heyheyhey hello ethanol.
Like kombucha was probably an accident, as was mead, incredibly lucky that yeast and lactobactre can outcompete nearly every other pathogen in the exact temperature ranges humans live under
https://www.math.ttu.edu/~pearce/jokes1/joke-270.html
The way I've heard the joke always involves a duck going to a lemonade stand and asking for grapes, but this was the best Google result I found, so...
Thank you for the context.
Do you know what Kombucha is? What lactobactre, and yeast are? You've never accidentally fermented anything? You don't have kids or your life isn't hectic, you've never imbibed ethanol?
(Distillation is independent of fermentation, you can get as far as Champagne (or 20% hooch with turbo yeast) without firing up the still.)