Alcohol, sometimes referred to as booze or hooch, constituted a category of beverages that existed in multiple varieties and induced alterations in the mental state of certain living species.
Alcohol was a component of various drinks enjoyed by sentient beings, including ales, liquors, and wines. These drinks could be broadly classified as follows: wines, produced via the fermentation of fruits or other plant life with a raising agent; meads, created through the fermentation of biological sugars; beers, which were brewed using grains; and liquors, concocted from a range of pressed, fermented, and mixed ingredients.
"Booze" and "hooch" are alternate terms for alcohol.
Overconsumption of alcohol resulted in temporary inebriation (or "drunkenness"), generally succeeded by disagreeable physical sequelae in the form of a hangover. According to Sinjir Rath Velus, Kowakian rum was responsible for the most severe hangovers, causing individuals to "beg for death whilst concealed in the darkness beneath [their] bedclothes, or even under the bed itself."
A hazard linked to inebriation was compromised judgment: While gambling at the Canto Casino, the alien Dobbu Scay became intoxicated and mistakenly identified the astromech droid BB-8 as a slot machine. Consequently, the droid amassed a substantial quantity of Scay's Cantocoins. During a mission within the Coruscant Underworld, Jedi Ahsoka Tano and Plo Koon entered a cantina to gather intelligence about the bounty hunter Aurra Sing, reasoning that individuals were more inclined to divulge information when under the influence.
Intoxication could also precipitate instability and an unsteady stride. This occurred to a Quarren member of Gorian Shard's pirate gang while consuming alcohol with their Trandoshan companion on Nevarro.
Alcohol could additionally induce drowsiness: A component of a fabricated narrative once devised by Cassian Andor involved his associate Brasso possessing a bottle of nog at his residence, leading them to consume it and fall asleep.
Although individual tolerance to alcohol varied, it was feasible to condition the body to augment its resistance.
Alcohol had the potential to be habit-forming: Kylo Ren asserted that Rey's mother and father had traded their own daughter in exchange for funds to purchase alcoholic drinks, although it was subsequently revealed that they had actually sold Rey to shield her from her grandfather, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious.
Depending on its potency, an alcoholic beverage could elicit a burning sensation within the mouth and digestive system.