Michael: Thanks for the comments!
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I try.
He talking about downing copious amounts of fermented grain?
Yup. Lots of ingestion of fermentation byproducts going on.
Unless he takes it as ‘Serena has been kidnapped’.

Ha! I never thought of that! Very Lois-like.
I’m still not sure if Norcross was a drunk or a superhero, and if so, which one. And why did he start drinking after they got together?
Well, in my head he was a drunk. In the show, Perry said that Norcross drank all of the bottles in the Tri-State area (or something of the variety; I don't remember verbatim at this moment), so I thought that his drinking problem (and refusal to acknowledge the aforesaid problem either to himself or to Judd) might have been what broke them up. Whether he started drinking before or after he and Judd started dating -- well, that's for you to decide. (Personally, I picture 'before')