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You can go into the "kitchen" tab of the "z" main fort menu and disable brewing of all undesired plants.

You could also allocate one stockpile only taking, say, plump helmets and put an extra still near it, then specify the stockpile to "give" to the workshop and order drinks made there. You'd also need to enable a stockpile holding empty barrels/pots to give to that workshop. This way, you could make your specific drink at this workshop when desired, but still brew other drinks at other stills without fiddling with kitchen settings all the time. It'd also work decently if not fully reliably if you left out the stockpile links - the workshop wouldn't be restricted to stockpile contents, but would still prefer ingredients from there, because jobs generally take the "closest" applicable item.

Could you forbid the components of other drinks?

Moleweasels and Frill Lizards are the cats of Masterwork, they both help get rid of vermin.

Are you using a mod?  Dwarves don't usually have bats, lizards, drakes, or turtles for trade.  Except as prepared food, that is.

You should still be able to get cats, if any migrants bring them as pets.