Alright, nomadic barbarians, we admit it: you beat us. You just

did the civilized folk intentionally give the barbarians alcohol to fuck them over?

>>3026564
Abso-fucking-lutely. Nomadic peoples are extremely good at a lot of things but historically they're very bad at finding ways to produce alcohol of any real strength or volume.

The Chinese would give steppe barbarians casks of white liquor, then move in and massacre them after they drank themselves into a stupor.

>>3026372
The mongols had fermented milk wine and might have passed some distillation techniques they learned to the Koreans. I also find it hard to believe rice wines and such weren't the popular all over Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soju#History_and_production

>>3026598
>The Chinese would give steppe barbarians casks of white liquor, then move in and massacre them after they drank themselves into a stupor.
kek that's a hilarious mental image isn't

I drank soju once and got what sounded like the Asian glow with a slight itch on the face. Never had that drinking anything else though.

>>3026372
>thiskillstheindian.jpg

>>3026598
>>3026607
But Mongols were heavy drinkers though and some even drank themselves to death as well other Altaic figures. I doubt they remained abstinent at the peak of their conquests but it could have been possible in battle given there strong and cohesive discipline.

>>3026372
Only one cup per day though.