There isn't any 'alcohol' in this game! They are all just 5 hour Energy drinks dressed up as mead!

IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
Nord Mead: Restores 30 Stamina, Stamina regenerates 30% more slow for 30 seconds.

That's not Alcohol, that's an energy drink bro.
:celebration:

Report back here when you find the drink that gives you wings!

Well they say it's liquid courage

Can't risk dovahkiin spouting nonsense in the dragon tongue while drunk on the streets now, can we?

Yeah and skooma is speed.

What are you? Some kind of Milk Drinker? <_<

Lol, I just mentioned this in another thread, but it's relevant I suppose.

I assumed that those drinks were more like the old fashioned wine and mead, which had very little alcohol content as it was used as a safe alternative to water, so you wouldn't really be getting negative side affects as much as you are avoiding cholera. I see the stamina boost as the PC just getting refreshed with a tasty beverage.

Yeah, come back to me after you've done the quest "A night to remember". Trust me, I wasn't drinking energy drinks that night.