Monday, November 13, 2023

No wonder I'm getting fat. It's those damn Heinekens...


WTF is a 'rectified spirit'? A rectified spirit, also 
known as neutral spirits, rectified alcohol or ethyl alcohol of agricultural origin, is highly concentrated ethanol that has been purified by means of repeated distillation in a process called rectification. Think 'Everclear'...



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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 13, 2023 at 9:33 PM

    These calorie counts have to be for the whole bottle. I can't imagine that a single shot of "Rectified Spirit" can be close to 10,000 calories. And a single Heineken is certainly not almost 900. They have to be talking about a six-pack...

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  2. Auntie AnalogueNovember 13, 2023 at 9:42 PM

    My late good friend Walt made a hellacious punch of Everclear, 7-Up, raspberry sherbet, and ice cubes. It had no alcoholic taste and was absolutely dreamy in flavor and smoothness: you'd never imagine that it packed a wallop and, oh boy, one 6 ounce cup of that potion would send you reeling, but very, very happy!

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  3. AnonymousNovember 14, 2023 at 6:25 AM

    Your alcohol calorie chart is comparing apples and oranges. The Heineken calories are based on a 6-pack of bottles not the 149 calories per bottle, as the other beers are measured. The glass of hard liquor is based on 44 ml while the dry martini is based on 89 ml, so you would expect the amount of calories to double. For the chart to further include the calories in a 750 ml or 1.75 ml bottle is ridiculous!

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  4. AnonymousNovember 15, 2023 at 8:08 AM

    "Rectified spirit" is just 96% alcohol, remainder water (actually, there's a bit more than 4% water). "Regular" ethanol, 95 ethanol, or just ethanol, as opposed to "absolute" alcohol (unqualified, "alcohol" always means 95% ethanol, at least to a chemist) which is further processed to remove the water - can't do that by simple distillation, as 96-4 is an azeotrope. If you add another solvent (benzene, heptane, etc) you can strip out the rest of the water (or use a water absorbing agent such as a molecular sieve).

    And, yeah, the chart sucks.

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