Ethanol, also called alcohol.

[keithmac]

All my money's gone into the new car/ caravan/ awning etc this year so peasant piss it is for me (children come first and I'll spend whats left..)

 

[Globalti]

Don't go buying Ethanol and try cutting it into drinks, it's de-natured with 5% methanol so you'd be blind and dead in no time..

Another myth. Ethanol is denatured with denatonium benzoate, sold as Bitrex, which is unbearably bitter to humans at 10 ppm.

 

[Drago]

I'm sat here dinking a pint of Fosters .

Don't be daft. This thread is about alcohol.

 

[slowmotion]

The glasses it's drunk out of would be. Any H&S wallah would give them the thumbs down in their risk assessment.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

When everyone drank beer to avoid bad water in the olden days, it was extremely low in alcohol.. something like 1 percent. It was more like a thin wheaty broth, which is kind of a shame as it's quite fun to imagine every single living person being utterly trollied. Like they are in Scotland.

 

[Milzy]

When everyone drank beer to avoid bad water in the olden days, it was extremely low in alcohol.. something like 1 percent. It was more like a thin wheaty broth, which is kind of a shame as it's quite fun to imagine every single living person being utterly trollied. Like they are in Scotland.

So it was a bit like Skol then.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

So it was a bit like Skol then.

Very much so, or perhaps a bit like Castlemaine XXXX
If ever there was a misleadingly named "beer" I think that's it.

 

[ufkacbln]

I think it would be banned, but as with many things in the past it would quite possibly be promoted for health benefits.

Smoking originally was.

Medical "knowledge" at the time had 4 components phlegm, yellow bile, black bile, and blood, these "humours" were then classified as Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry

Most medical conditions were seen as an imbalance of these.

Quickest cure was to restore the "Balance" by a dose of the opposite.

So if you had a fever, then a cold remedy would restore, and so on.

As t was "Hot" and "Dry" then Tobacco was seen as as a cure for many illnesses.

 

[I like Skol]

So it was a bit like Skol then.

Just finished one thanks

 

[keithmac]

[QUOTE 4782936, member: 259"]Interesting, I've never heard of that, although the Guinness export they usually sell in Belgium is 8%. It's very good, and used to be a favourite of the late Vernon of this parish. I wonder if it's the same stuff relabelled?

I'll have to have a look out for it.

[edit] but you can keep the Fosters! [/QUOTE]

It's a lovely tipple, I think Guinness were brewing 100 different blends over the next few years, I've tried a few and not found a bad one yet!.

 

[Milzy]

The one thing I think is good about Islam is no booze. Albeit I've known Muslim friends to enjoy a few pints of bitter after work.

 

[rikki]

I'm sure that there would be efforts made to ban it. But it's so easy to make. The only reason that we don't make our own now is that it's so easy to buy. Of course the government controls and taxes the sale of it.

If the fermentation process and ethanol were suddenly discovered now - we would all be making it and drinking it at home.

 

[TheDoctor]

So...something should be banned because the OP does it to excess?
Have I got that right?

 

[rikki]

Banning it won't stop anyone. People use class A substances knowing that it will get them locked up or dead or both.

 

[rikki]

I'm trying to imagine a world where ethanol has never existed (either undiscovered or no fermentation process).
Apart from all the people adversely affected by alcohol throughout history and prehistory.
No vinegar for my chips, and no vinegar to preserve food for the past few millennia.
South Australia, and great parts of Europe, would be very different if there had never been any wine-making or barley growing.