hooch vs alcoholic beverage

hooch and alcoholic beverage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
hooch	Yes	No	No	No
alcoholic beverage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, alcoholic beverage is a hypernym of hooch; that is, alcoholic beverage is a word with a broader meaning than hooch:

Other hypernyms of hooch include alcohol, alcoholic drink, inebriant, intoxicant.

hooch (noun)	alcoholic beverage (noun)
an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor	a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent