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Auto-brewery syndrome :: A woman kept getting drunk despite not drinking. Fungi in her gut were brewing their own alcohol. (www.livescience.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It would've been much easier for him to just brew his own alcohol outside of his body. Sugarwine with turbo yeast can't be too expensive. A bag of sugar and turboyeast, less than a fiver, and you'd make some 5 gallons of ~14-18% alc sugarwine (aka kilju).