What would have been a liberal estimate of the possible alcohol ABA or %? How much sugar would have been in it/L?

Even wine for Kings?

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 天前

      “Fortified” means that liquor is added which acts as a preservative and it also stops further fermentation so you can have more sugar left in the wine. Oftentimes, herbs are added, too, which also acts a preservative.

      In beer, IPAs are similar in that greater amounts of hops were added so it could survive the trip to India with less chance of spoiling.

        • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 天前

          I think full modern-strength liquor is relatively new-ish (500-1000 years). I’m just thinking back to the meme of the wikipedia article on the “timeline of Irish inventions” that has the invention of whiskey and then a gap of 300 years before they invented anything else.