Can liquor make you simple?

there is such a thing as alcoholic dementia. that could be what you mean. it's not reversible. it can mask a senile dementia. dementia is a diagnosis based on observation. my father in laws father drank lots of homemade and other liquor. he had dementia, what kind or both we cannot know. the other grandfather had jake leg, anterior body paralysis from drinking propylene glycol in a patent medicine.