It sure can, but alcohols COME from microbial life. Things stop further fermenting when yeast "maxes out", whether running out of sugars, which can kill weak yeasts easily, but the hardier wild yeasts keep on multiplying for years at even ~10% ethanol, slowly driving that number up, until it runs out of sugars, or gets around twice that strength when making liquor.
I spray D-
Limonene in 190 Everclear (Literally a spritz or two on stalks) on bait plants*, so that it evaporates quickly, very sticky stuff and very pungent drawing more ladybugs, hummingbirds, butterflies, Dr. Bronnner's Peppermint and Hemp Tea Tree soap as a mite killer/prevention, the mint kills mites/insects and the tea tree oil is a STRONG antimicrobial and antifungal, antibacterial. Fortunately, it's very PH neutral. Also fortunately, I wash crops before eating them. Had I any sort of mite problem on flowers which I could not fix with diatamaceous earth, I would rather spritz with Everclear than soap, because it evaporates and is food-safe. Though, I often have one lit while I spray my crops, so it doesn't seem exceptionally dangerous to smoke. Obviously the best preventative measure is to never have that problem, and thankfully I've learned that "companion planting", like using Korean Licorice Mint as "ground cover" (i.e. instead of grass, on top of soil with
smart pots and the like) surrounding the base. It won't drive away or hurt arachnids.
*It is not at all just color and pungency, or rather perceptible pungency, colors which attract everything. My Tomatillos, albeit massive compared to the seedbanks.. lol.. drew more pests than I've ever seen on anything. They are known to be the oldest nightshade by tens or hundreds of thousands of years (IDR), but they have no smell, unlike the various tomatoes I've grown including this year. Saw adult Tomato horn worm/hawk moths almost every night through the summer, any gardener probably thinking "Oh fuck no..".. The only other plant it went to is ancient landrace NM chiles, and THAT ended entirely when I planted an older landrace tomatillo. Red Aztech Spinach is working just as well, and is a rainbow of color besides ancient. I have not tried planting licorice mint with either of those bait plants, but my end goal is using entirely plants rather than any sort of insecticide, even totally natural, and let the butterflies, spiders, and ladybugs enjoy them.