some questions on Vodka

[Jerboy]

Liqours are distilled to get high alcohol content and I never really understood how it could make something so unique by this. When you distill something, you'd leave behind all the non-volatile stuff behind such as sugar. Wouldn't it make it just plain 'ol alcohol? I heard Vodka's are distilled four or five times, to get it pure, then filtered to remove the harshness(whatever that is). Is there something other than ethanol in Vodka that is volatile and is vaporized along with alcohol that gives unique taste? Well if it was just ethanol, I really can't see why you can't take synthetic chemically pure ethanol and dilute it with water then call it Vodka.. Sorry..

I don't drink and I don't know much about them.

 

[Jerboy]

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[SuperTool]

I believe Vodka is pretty much diluted methanol.
I am not 100% sure though, but I only taste the alcohol in Vodka.

 

[Halogen]

i dunno how it works realy but i think it's like this. an alcohol's name is based on what it is made from: corn is burbon, i think it's tum that is made from sugar cain, i think scotch is made from potatoes

it's fermented until its just rotten liquid or whatever, then distiled to get the alcohol away from the 'crap' lets call it, distill it again, distill it again, they add water and some other things to make that taste (probably a safety thing) and there you go

pure ethanol is tasteless and it has no smell, being able to slip that into somebody's drink could be dangerous so that's probably why hard alcohol tastes horrible

if you do half and half with lemon juice it completely covers the taste and you can get loaded in 5 minutes

 

[Halogen]

<< I believe Vodka is pretty much diluted methanol. >>


oh god i hope not
my physics teacher used to work in a pharmacutical research thing for some reason and he told us that they would work with ethanol all the time in experiments but add methanol to insure workers don't drink it. he told us that methanol will make you go blind if you drink it, so obviously workers in the lab would not drink the test alcohol because they were fond of seeing stuff.

 

[Aceman]

<< i think scotch is made from potatoes >>



Now I like vodka (which is made from potatoes) But if scotch is made from potatoes, I want my $45 back on this wonderful bottle of SINGLE MALT Scotch! Single malt Scotch is made from malted barley and a bit of peat. Some lower grade scotches are made from barleys and corn.

Vodka gets it's different taste from the potatoes. The process for distilling vodka is vary similar to distilling gin. The sugars in a potato are easier to breakdown and turn in to alcohol as compared to cane sugar in rum, barley is scotch, and the mixes of corn and barley in wiskey.

 

[Halogen]

what the hell is scotch made of then? there's lot of potatoes in Russia which is where vodka is abundant so what you say makes sense

seriously what is scotch then?

 

[Aceman]

<< Single malt Scotch is made from malted barley and a bit of peat. Some lower grade scotches are made from barleys and corn. >>



I just told ya!

 

[Halogen]

i didn't read that part jeez gimme a break lol :Q

 

[Zim Hosein]

Here you go Halogen: http://www.scotchwhisky.com/english/about/whatscot.htm Hope this helps.

 

[Halogen]

dude i clicked on that link of yours for SETTI to see what it was to find out it's a group of weirdos trying to find life by using screensavers

are you sure it's not like a virus or something?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Halogen, try reading the articles in the DC Forum and see if that changes your opinion on SETI. If it doesn't, post your comments on SETI there and I'm sure you will receive plenty of responses. Hope this helps.

edit: Can't spell

 

[jjones]

<< an alcohol's name is based on what it is made from: corn is burbon >>


bourbon takes it's name from bourbon county, kentucky where this particular way of making and distilling this type of whiskey originated.

 

[Moonbeam]

Pure ethel alcohol is neither odorless or tasteless and there's not the slightest chance you'd drink a ton of it by accident. It burns like hell. Actually what it does is suck the water out of your cells and flood them with alcohol instead. Have a glass of spiritus, 198 proof Polish vodka if you don't believe me. You shoot it down and throw the glass in the fireplace. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

 

[Halogen]

um no. if you calculate how much alcohol is in 1 beer (like 18ml or something) and consider a glass of 100% pure it would probably kill you from dehydration and alcohol poisoning

 

[tweakmm]

<< um no. if you calculate how much alcohol is in 1 beer (like 18ml or something) and consider a glass of 100% pure it would probably kill you from dehydration and alcohol poisoning >>


....
what does this have any revilence with anything? Yes, 12 oz of pure alcohol would kill you... but you would DEFINETLY know that you were drinking alcohol. You wouldn't think that it was water or something.

 

[tweakmm]

<< um no. if you calculate how much alcohol is in 1 beer (like 18ml or something) and consider a glass of 100% pure it would probably kill you from dehydration and alcohol poisoning >>


whenever you respond to someting:
QUOTE WHAT YOU RESPOND TO! We are not mind readers!

 

[iamwiz82]

<< Pure ethel alcohol is neither odorless or tasteless and there's not the slightest chance you'd drink a ton of it by accident. It burns like hell. Actually what it does is suck the water out of your cells and flood them with alcohol instead. Have a glass of spiritus, 198 proof Polish vodka if you don't believe me. You shoot it down and throw the glass in the fireplace. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! >>



we poles love our liquor

 

[new99]

mm.. rubbing alcohol.

 

[jobberd]

<< we poles love our liquor >>

damn right
Also, spiritus isn't even classified a liquor; its main use is for cakes. So you can export as much of that stuff as you want when you're leaving the country

 

[Ladies Man]

heres a quote from one of my friends regarding everclear

"190 proof??? You drink that! I would use that for anything other than cleaning a cut!"

 

[Jerboy]

<< Pure ethel alcohol is neither odorless or tasteless and there's not the slightest chance you'd drink a ton of it by accident. It burns like hell. Actually what it does is suck the water out of your cells and flood them with alcohol instead. Have a glass of spiritus, 198 proof Polish vodka if you don't believe me. You shoot it down and throw the glass in the fireplace. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!! >>





Whats all the difference between American, Polish, etc. etc. Vodka if they're basically ethanol? Isn't Everclear the same thing as Vodka other than where it came from and where it came from wouldn't matter since its just plain 'ol alcohol huh?


Someone said spiritus isn't controlled as a liquor. I don't think that is true. Anything with undenatured alcohol is controlled by the Federal government in the US. Undenatured alcohol is heavily taxed even when purchased as "reagent A.C.S. absolute ethanol". I read somewhere on the web yesterday that industrial alcohol and beverage alcohol are both produced in a same fermentation plant. One is denatured with toxic chemical so it is unfit for consumption and the other is heavily taxed.

 

[jobberd]

<< Whats all the difference between American, Polish, etc. etc. Vodka if they're basically ethanol? Isn't Everclear the same thing as Vodka other than where it came from and where it came from wouldn't matter since its just plain 'ol alcohol huh? >>

Vodka is mostly made from potatoes, im pretty sure. And the spiritus that Moonbeam is talking about isn't vodka.

<< Someone said spiritus isn't controlled as a liquor. I don't think that is true. Anything with undenatured alcohol is controlled by the Federal government in the US. Undenatured alcohol is heavily taxed even when purchased as "reagent A.C.S. absolute ethanol". I read somewhere on the web yesterday that industrial alcohol and beverage alcohol are both produced in a same fermentation plant. One is denatured with toxic chemical so it is unfit for consumption and the other is heavily taxed.
>>

I don't know about that. I live in Canada, and I know that when I came back from Poland we had alot more spiritus then would have been allowed if it were vodka or rum. And no we didn't hide it, they checked the bags