Posted on 01/05/2014 12:24:09 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Yes and reasonably priced. Depending on how much is imbibed, you may or may not suffer a hangover the next morning as Tito’s is distilled six times, removing a significant amount of impurities from the final product. Enjoy responsibly.
I distrust hydrometer (relative density) measurement as an indication of alcohol content of some liquid.
When used to measure consumption of sugar in wort by yeast, as in beer fermentation, then it makes sense.
I am glad that you had fun, and the Korean drink sounds interesting. However, I doubt that a filter could capture enough of anything to produce the results that you observed. The filter would have to gain a tremendous amount of mass!
We did not weigh the filter, nor the liquor poured through it, but, it took a hell of a lot of the filtered stuff to get us anywhere near lit up, and relatively little of the unfiltered stuff to get lit.
A-Ha!
Maybe the filter captured a small concentration of some methy-f’ing-badstuff that had a big intoxicating effect. Now that makes sense! Please see your mail.
To answer the headline question: For many kinds of liquor, such as whiskey and tequila, there is a foolproof scientific measuring instrument: The morning-after headache.
I can tell the difference between high end vodka and dreck like Poland Sping and Popov Vodka. I can also discern the difference between potato, wheat, and bull grass vodka as well as grape “vodka”.
This is vodka, the stuff the phillistones consider to be “rubbing alcohol”.
I’ve done a shot of pharmaceutical grade ethanol (99.5% de-ionized). It’s got more bite than 100 proof and is similar to Everclear.
That’s 199 proof at 99.5%.
The issue with alcohol over 190 proof is how that extra 5% azeotropic water content was removed. The issue being use of solvent type chemicals not typically associated with human consumption and safety :P
Blind taste tests of Scotch has shown the most favored to be bottles that cost about $40. I tend to agree, however, some of the more expensive bottles costing $300+ have a distinct taste the cheaper bottles do not. For instance, Glenlivet 25 and Reserve have a peppery quality not found in the 21 and lower years, which is desirable if smoking the appropriate cigar. Of course, they also have greater strength but only if consumed naked. Adding water or rocks means forget drinking the more expensive bottles as you just weakened them; maybe the peppery notes are still there but their strength, and desirability, is reduced.
Perhaps that’s the reason for whisky stones (http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ba37/).
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