Question: Borovička (also known as Juniper brandy), is a Slovak alcoholic beverage flavored with juniper berries, today's commercially produced borovička contains about 40% alcohol by volume, what is it called, also called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is a compound and simple alcohol with the chemical formula C2H5OH?

Context articles: Ethanol
Alcohol congener analysis
Legal drinking age
Distilled beverage
Brinjevec
Alcohol
Alcohol laws of India
Alcoholism
Designated Public Places Order
Borovička

Ethanol, also called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is a compound and simple alcohol with the chemical formula C2H5OH .
 Its formula can be written also as CH3 −CH2 −OH or C2H5 −OH (an ethyl group linked to a hydroxyl group), and is often abbreviated as EtOH.
 Ethanol is a volatile, flammable, colorless liquid with a slight characteristic odor.
 It is used as a drug and is the principal type of alcohol found in alcoholic drinks.
Alcohol congener analysis of blood and urine is used to provide an indication of the type of alcoholic beverage consumed.
 The analysis involves investigating compounds called congeners that give the beverage a distinctive appearance, aroma, and flavour, not including water and ethanol.
 The theory of discovering one’s drinking habits has been investigated since the late 1970s, predominantly in Germany, for "hip-flask" defence type cases (after-drinking).
 Alcohol congener analysis can play a crucial role in these cases where the driver is apprehended some time after a motor vehicle incident who, when returning a positive alcohol reading then claim that this is due to drinking an alcoholic beverage only after the incident.
 This traditional methodology for congener analysis has focused solely on the detection of fermentation by-product congeners that are found in all alcoholic beverages.
 By comparing the ratios of a set standard of congeners, the ingested alcoholic beverage type is proposed.
The legal drinking age is the age at which a person can legally consume or purchase alcoholic beverages.
 These laws cover a wide range of issues and behaviors, addressing when and where alcohol can be consumed.
 The minimum age alcohol can be legally consumed can be different from the age when it can be purchased in some countries.
 These laws vary among different countries and many laws have exemptions or special circumstances.
 Most laws apply only to drinking alcohol in public places, with alcohol consumption in the home being mostly unregulated (an exception being the UK, which has a minimum legal age of five for supervised consumption in private places).
 Some countries also have different age limits for different types of alcoholic drinks.
A distilled beverage, spirit, liquor, hard liquor or hard alcohol is an alcoholic beverage produced by distillation of grains, fruit, or vegetables that have already gone through alcoholic fermentation.
 The distillation process purifies the liquid and removes diluting components like water, for the purpose of increasing its proportion of alcohol content (commonly expressed as alcohol by volume, ABV).
 As distilled beverages contain significantly more alcohol, they are considered "harder" – in North America, the term "hard liquor" is used to distinguish distilled beverages from undistilled ones.
Brinjevec (or "Brinovec") is a strong alcoholic drink, produced in the Karst and Brkini regions in Slovenia.
 It is re-distilled from ground and fermented juniper berries only and it differs from similar drinks that have different alcohol bases with added juniper flavor (compound Gin, Slovak Borovička, Dutch Jenever, Serbian Klekovača, etc.).
 It has a clear transparent color and it is meant for folk medicinal use and not for regular drinking.
 It contains between 40% and 50% alcohol and has a very distinctive tart taste
In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a saturated carbon atom.
 The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), which is used as a drug and is the main alcohol present in alcoholic beverages.
The legal drinking age in India and the laws which regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol vary significantly from state to state.
 In India, consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the states of Gujarat, Bihar and Nagaland as well as the union territory of Lakshadweep.
 There is a partial ban on alcohol in some districts of Manipur.
 All other Indian states permit alcohol consumption but fix a legal drinking age, which ranges at different ages per region.
 In some states, the legal drinking age can be different for different types of alcoholic beverage.
Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.
 It was previously divided into two types: alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence.
 In a medical context, alcoholism is said to exist when two or more of the following conditions is present: a person drinks large amounts over a long time period, has difficulty cutting down, acquiring and drinking alcohol takes up a great deal of time, alcohol is strongly desired, usage results in not fulfilling responsibilities, usage results in social problems, usage results in health problems, usage results in risky situations, withdrawal occurs when stopping, and alcohol tolerance has occurred with use.
 Risky situations include drinking and driving or having unsafe sex among others.
 Alcohol use can affect all parts of the body but particularly affects the brain, heart, liver, pancreas, and immune system.
 This can result in mental illness, Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, an irregular heart beat, liver failure, and an increase in the risk of cancer, among other diseases.
 Drinking during pregnancy can cause damage to the baby resulting in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Generally women are more sensitive to alcohol's harmful physical and mental effects than men.
Designated Public Place Orders (DPPOs) give police officers discretionary powers to require a person to stop drinking and confiscate alcohol or containers of alcohol from people they believe are consuming or about to consume alcohol in public places where the order is in effect.
 In the London Borough of Southwark, DPPOs are also called Alcohol Control Areas (ACAs), while in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, they are called Controlled Drinking Areas (CDAs) or Controlled Drinking Zones (CDZs).
 Failure to comply with alcohol restrictions in DPPOs can result in arrest and/or a fine of up to £500.
 DPPOs are implemented by local councils in order to address alcohol-related crime and disorder in public places.
 s of June 2009 712 DPPOs have implemented by local authorities since Section 13 of the Police and Criminal Justice Act 2001 gave councils the power to do so where they were satisfied that areas were suffering from alcohol-related crime and disorder.
 A common impact of enforcement of DPPO powers is displacement of street drinking to nearby areas.
Borovička (] ) (also known as Juniper brandy) is a Slovak alcoholic beverage flavored with juniper berries.
 It is characterized by a white or golden colour and a taste similar to that of dry gin.
 It is popular especially in Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
 Today's commercially produced borovička contains about 40% alcohol by volume.
 As a benchmark, the minimum alcohol amount required by law in Slovakia is 37.5%.