Fermentation is just what happens when you accidentally leave stuff in a container that limits oxygen. It’s easy to make alcohol my accident. Then there’s also the fact than we don’t know how well connected the world was before writing. We know farming developed independently from studies of soil in lakes and whatnot but recipes are much harder to pin down as something invented independently.

Not sure about the swords part but the Aztecs didn’t any.

I read somewhere that eastern Asian populations lack a certain protein which helps metabolise alcohol, which was attributed to the fact that glass was not industrially developed and therefore distillation of alcohol wasn’t widespread and the genome never had to adapt to alcohol. Probably more to it than that and it’s outside my usual reading, but is there any truth to that? If so then not every culture invented moonshine.

Not to be overly pedantic, but changing the order of things in the second part of the sentence is really throwing me off by suggesting that donuts are fermented and that there’s a beer with fried dough as an ingredient somewhere.

Fermentation and a ton of other foods had to have just been stumbled upon. Like they just forgot about some food, it went bad, but then someone thought to still eat it and it didn’t kill them while also tasting good.

I can’t argue. It sounds like a hell of a Friday night.