The “l” is added. Original is one of those pronoun less fragments. Have to see the context to know…

These new writers are not confident enough to write a female-centric sageuk like the writers of old.
They have to change it to sell the pretty and tall new male leads.

>.<

(... what I mean by that is, in the same way I wanted Red Sky to be actually just a Korean Traditional Painting documentary, with heavy emphasis on Dancheong, I want to see a very aesthetic and well shot exploration of Ancient Korean Alcohol making processes and chemistry, with specific emphasis in fruit wine and soju... and we do not know what kind kf alcohol our FL makes here yet as the description just says "brewer" ...)

Probably not common in Joseon as the fermented rice-based alcohol.
I'm guessing this law was enforced because of a drought so that would impact rice, wheat, fruit production also?
What do you think?

Probably not as common for sure, no, but fruit wines have been around since Goryeo at least.
Along with wanting to know when this drama is set, I am struggling to find more information on the Joseon Alcohol Prohibition laws themselves. I found this site: http://www.beksejuusa.com/HistoryOfKoreanWine -
that says the Prohibition was enacted for ALL of Joseon? Do you have any farther reading on this at all?
bokbunja-ju- made from Korean Black raspberries- would be possible to make from foraging alone perhaps, but a drought-based famine would make even that hard. I have no idea if Rubus coreanus was grown as a crop in Joseon lol. Or what was for that matter, in terms of fruit. *more rabbit holes to go down.*

Sic,
I wish I were interested enough in this show to do more. BOSSAM at least was inspiring and worth the brain cells despite having issues with it towards the end.
I miss our wise and adventurous @pakalanapikake. She would be into this, no matter what.

Anyway, I would bet on the fruit wine being brewed or through trade as far back as the three kingdoms, Shilla especially.
Seorabeol, Shilla's capital city, has been the cosmopolitan city of that era to a lesser degree than Chang'an.
(IIRC, the young Deok Man had some Arab friends in QSD).

I know... honestly I'm impressed that I managed to go this far off a script reading post alone... since honestly the drama doesn't interest me THAT much either pfft.

Seorabeol was the 4th largest city in the world at its peak! So undoubtedly! They were trading as far as the Byzantine Empire, if not farther.
(Sort of related? I also read in my rabbiting, that they learnt the distillation process for Soju specifically, off the Mongols who got it from the Arabs.)

Don’t forget 막걸리 (Makgeolli) …

Looks like traditional Korean Rice Wines and Soju are made using a starter called nuruk- a cake of wheat, barley, mung beans or rice, wheat being the most common, which is left to ferment and grow mold, enzymes, yeast and bacteria, in a warm space (the ondol room) for several weeks. This is then used as the starter for the alcohol process by adding it to rice and water.
The enzymes in the starter turn the rice starch into sugar, then the sugar is consumed by the yeast, which produces the alcohol (short version.)

I don't know which would be cheaper or easier to brew, although I did read that traditionally women were the alcohol brewers in general. I feel like knowing when this drama is supposed to be set would help a lot, but it might just be "Vague General Joseon" (honestly, so annoying. The Joseon Dynasty lasted 500 years.) and we'll have to figure it out through inference and other means.

Well, it sounds like the inspector is a country pumpkin. The only king who would give talented lowborn and outcasts a position in his government was Sejong. He also ordered alcohol prohibitions during natural disasters.

They are so vague. This could also be Taejong's era who first implemented the alcohol law or any king since it's not an authentic sageuk.