I feel sorry for those who think that Quran needs crutches to understand , Quran itself says we have made it is easy for you to read and comprehend.
If some verdict is not in Quran you can try to find it in hadees but if a hadees contradicts , Quran , itself and common logic that is a made up hadees. As Quran has no doubt in it hadees has to be free of all doubts to be accepted an inspiration from Allah.
I have already given many examples where many hadess from authentic books of hadees can be easily declared made up by a common man.
Now you go and show me a verse of Quran which categorically declare alcohol as a haram substance. If something is declared haram in Quran it is declared haram without leaving any ambiguity in that declaration.
There are many examples of those declarations and you know them. But there is no such declaration for alcohol.
Not that I will go out and start drinking it , Allah has told us in Quran that Alcohol and Dice throwing have more harm then benefits therefore I take the words of Allah and will avoid them as much as humanly possible for me.