Contrary to what /u/PhillipCarey has posted, many Native American groups did have alcohol. The most prominent kind was what is called chicha in much of Latin America, made of fermented corn. Other local drinks include pulque in Mexico, made from agave, and drinks made from fermented yucca. The production, consumption, and ritual use of chicha, in particular, is well documented in ancient art and colonial records. If you're interested in the particular details of alcohol in a certain place, I'd encourage you ask about one!

A lot of Native American tribes did have alcohol. You have to remember that the Americas are a big place and there were a huge number of Pre Colombian civilizations. It was a lot more common among the central and south American empires like the Maya, Aztec, Inca and Olmec, but those civilizations were pretty successfully scattered by the Spanish. Alcohol existed in North America too. The Iroquois, Cherokee and Pueblo all had alcoholic beverages, but they were all farming civilizations and were also decimated by European conquest. It's easy to think of all natives as the nomadic plains tribes that survived and fought until almost the twentieth century, but they were a minority before Columbus. It's hard to brew when your people are on the move, but nearly every settled native tribe had some form of alcohol.

The Native Americans did have a fairly wide variety of alcoholic beverages including types of beer, wine and the like. They do not seem to have had distilled spirits, but there are many types of alcoholic beverages that are made simply from fermentation that do not require distillation.

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The Americas may have had distillation. The Capacha culture of West Mexico had very distinct ceramics consisting of double chambers. These chambered ceramics look very similar to early stills in China and Mongolia. Some researchers conducted a series of experiments and showed that it was very possible to get alcoholic beverages above the 15% mark after just one distillation. Now, they did not prove that the Capacha culture actually did this, that would be the next step by looking at usewear and residue analysis. But it brings to attention other earlier claims of distillation in the Americas that were brushed aside and disregarded because the method wasn't similar to the method the Spanish used.