The time travellers know how to produce "'...superwine...'" which:
"'...gets you good and drunk faster...'" (p. 111)
And Manse Everard escapes by using whisky to get his Mongol captors so drunk that they pass out:
"...most of what they brewed in the thirteenth century ran well under five per cent alcohol, with a high foodstuff content to boot."
-Poul Anderson, "The Only Game In Town" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, December 2010), pp. 129-171 AT 7, p. 167.
They think that they can drink whisky like beer or wine. Some factors remain common between timelines.
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