Petitioner challenges a determination finding him guilty of possessing alcohol after a bucket containing two to three gallons of liquid that smelled like alcohol was found in his cell. We reject petitioner's assertion that scientific testing of the substance was required inasmuch as the nature of alcoholic beverages is a matter of common knowledge (see, Matter of Pulecio v Goord,
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