Instead, the authors posit that an intoxicant other than alcohol may be responsible for "tipsy" behavior. Elephants also eat the bark of the marula tree, which is home to a beetle pupae ...

Assuming that fermenting marula fruit would have an alcohol content of 7 percent, it would require 7.1 gallons (27 liters) of marula juice to come up with that half-gallon of alcohol, the ...

After which it is sent through a 2nd distillation in copper pots, originally used by producer Distell for cognac, now making a marula fruit spirit with about 70% alcohol. From there the stable ...