Unknowingly Drinking Alcohol Me and my brother visited this pizzeria recently and he ordered two apple juices. Ryder's Wild Apple to be exact. I drank a sip of it and it tasted and smelled a bit like alcohol and obviously had the apple taste. But it had that beer smell. And then only I saw the label 8.8%. And I stopped drinking after it. 

Did I break my 5th precept? I'm a person who doesn't take my precept very lightly. But I want to know whether I broke my 5th precept or not.
Did I break my 5th precept?


In order to break the 5th precept, the following four factors need to be present and fulfilled:


  
  Mada-niyam -- intoxicants. 
  Patu-kamyata-cittam -- the desire to drink. 
  Tajjo vayamo -- the effort is made. 
  Pitappa-vesanam -- the intoxicants being drunk passing the throat.
  


Very importantly is the second factor, i.e. the desire to drink. This is also known as intention/volition (Cetanā).

If just one of these factors are not fulfilled, the precept is still intact.