Nope, it's the ethyl alcahol variety... the drinkable one. The other organic molecules detected in the cloud also suggest that it will taste like raspberry rum.
Astronomer here, I confirm that there's a lot of ethanol in space. Ugh, I can still remember the patterns of spectral lines in the submillimetric domain, I've seen them way too often.
It's not readily drinkable though. It's a super diluted gas mixed with other molecules like cyanide. It's going to take a big funnel to collect something, then you have to carefully sort it. But in the end you do get space vodka.
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