Alcohol Is Alcohol Is Alcohol Or Is There Different Types Of Alcohol

[RATTER15]

I dont really know what I am talking about here but here goes.

If you were to take a range of different alcoholic drinks and extract the pure alcohol element from them, would the pure alcohol be exactly the same when compared to each other?

Just curious.

[RATTER15]

OG //Not every gets a personal reply but I suspect all posts are appreciated.//

Exactly!

[jomifl]

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/alcohols/background.html

Most alcoholic drinks contain other alohols too, but not in significant amounts.

[sandyRoe]

So the drinkers of Montrachet Grand Cru and Cyprus sherry are really after the same thing?

[RATTER15]

So there are different alcohols?

Sqad is wrong after I gave him Best Answer?

[Svejk]

there's different types of alcohol but only one in drinks. this thread is a continuation of the thread where people blamed their bad behaviour on different drinks as opposed to too much drink. lol.

[RATTER15]

Svejk, yes it is a continuation, I am interested in why different alcoholic drinks have different effects if there is only one type of alcohol in all the different drinks.

jomifl says //Most alcoholic drinks contain other alcohols too, but not in significant amounts.//

Im confused, there appears to be conflicting answers here.

[Svejk]

you've got 'trace amounts' of William Shakespeare in you but it doesn't make you a playwright, ratter. (apologies if you are)

[Svejk]

lots of blokes around here swear that cider makes them loopy. but I think they only guzzle it on hot days, with a gang of mates. 2 things far more likely to lead them down the loopy road.

[Gromit]

Alcohol was first discovered by Mohammad ibn Zakaria Razi in the First Century in what is now present day Iran.

Alcohol has been discovered outside out Solar System.

[redman41]

An alcoholic beverage is a drink containing Ethanol, commonly known as alcohol.
There are several types of Alcohol, see Link below

http://www.chemcases.com/alcohol/alc-02.htm

The only one that I'm interested in is Ethanol as I like Beer.

[RATTER15]

Ok so if I were to extract the alcohol content from a gallon of cider and the alcohol content from a gallon of Whiskey the chemical content of the two would be identical apart from the quantity?

[redman41]

Yes it's all Ethanol (Alcohol) RATTER, but the ABV (Alcohol By Volume)would be different. Whisky tends to be stronger than Cider

[Old_Geezer]

You asked in the post if the alcohol extracted from booze would all be the same. The answer to that for legitimate booze is yes. But the title asks something different, whether generally there are different alcohols, and again the answer to that is yes. So it's yes either way.

[Old_Geezer]

Ok traces of other alcohols, too little to be counted, excepted.

[WELSHYORKIE]

'Well if you drinks meths ih has Me-OH in it' - If I were to drink meths I reckon Me- OH would be stood waiting by the door with a frying pan in her hand!!

[RATTER15]

(Alcohol By Volume) so that would be a difference. I assumed that the quantity of alcohol would have been different but the strength would have been the same quantity by quantity.

OG, I also said: I dont really know what I am talking about here but here goes.

[redman41]

^^^^ lol lol

[Svejk]

I can drink beer all day (12hrs) and feel ok (don't know what I look like, mind) 1 bottle of whisky and I feel half-cut. ;-)

[flump1]

Ratter, what a good question , I have wondered this too !