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Originally Posted by D
You are mistaken. 
Beer can, and does, occur naturally.
Granted, there is a process involved... some stalk of wheat falls down, and hits a puddle of water... which it sits in for the next day or two as the wild yeast settles on to start consuming the sugars as the surrounding foliage contribute to the bittering of the fermented liquid...
It's an entirely natural process... even if man's intervention does help yield a much better product. |
Fruit in australia, especially mangos, undergo a natural fermantation process.
When the fruit is overripe, it falls to the ground. In the summerheat, and in conjunction with the thick skin of the mangos, and their high sugar content, they ferment very quickly.
The result? The local parrots get totally, 100% pissed from mango daiquiris. It's not an odd thing in the summer to see birds fast asleep on the ground, or rolling around squarking very drunkenly.