Question

What is the difference between fermented and distilled alcoholic beverage

Answer 1

Explanation:

All alcoholic drinks are fermented, but distilled beverages go through additional processing to purify the product.

Beer and wine are the result of the natural sugars in grains/grapes being consumed by yeast bacteria. This yields byproducts, one of which is ethanol (that's the alcohol that gets us drunk.) It also produces methanol, an extremely toxic alcohol, but only in amounts too small to matter in the final product. So, the whole mash does its thing in a vat until it's alcoholic, it goes through filtration to remove sediments, and there's your drink.

Distilled beverages are basically