My Irish grandma made bathtub gin during Prohibition, and also homemade beer. My dad had the job of siphoning it into bottles, that is where he got his taste for beer.
My Italian grandparents made homemade wine. When my mom was cleaning out the house after they had both passed, there were barrels of wine in the cellar. She did not want the neighbors to see them, so under cover of night, they emptied them in the back yard. Not realizing that next day, the whole area would smell like wine!!