In other words, it would have taken wine longer to ferment before the Flood. Once the canopy disappeared, the fermentation rate of wine accelerated. Noah may not have expected this change and may have been caught off guard. One may insist that Noah could have gauged how much fermentation had taken place by the taste. Perhaps he did. Before the Flood he may have drunk juice fermented to the same degree, but it had not affected him. Tests have revealed that drunkenness occurs more rapidly at higher