If corn and potatoes are from the Americas, why weren’t Native Americans making whiskey and vodka before the Europeans showed up?

Question

If corn and potatoes are from the Americas, why weren’t Native Americans making whiskey and vodka before the Europeans showed up?

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Answer 1

because they had no real ability to metalwork. you have to distill a mash to make spirits and pre European colonists the natives basically just had stone age technology