Was looking up the history of soju, learned the process of making it came to Korea because of the Mongols and it was called the Levantine distillation process. This lead me to learn that both the root word for alcohol and the process of making the hard stuff came from the Arabs.
All I can say is thank you Arabic science for making my new years that much better!
Actual practices regarding alcohol have varied wildly across different times and cultures throughout Islamic history. There's a lot of famous Muslim poetry about how awesome wine is.