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Is there a way to make powder alcohol work?
i mean like powder beer

>> No.16513511

>>16513499
Powdered vodka or powdered everclear is an objectively dumb idea because pure alcohol is a liquid and does not readily absorb into gels in high concentrations.

Take out the alcohol and keep the flavorants, and it makes sense to distribute that as a powder.

>> No.16513527

>>16513499
Absorb alcohol into powder. Then you have less enjoyable alcohol.

>> No.16513557

>>16513499
>>16513511
>Take out the alcohol and keep the flavorants, and it makes sense to distribute that as a powder.
What are you going to put your powdered tequila in, a glass of diluted everclear?

It's just more effort for a worse drink

>> No.16513561

>>16513557
the idea is to pour water into the powder and have turn into alcohol

>> No.16513564

>>16513557
He wants to snort it.

>> No.16513580

>>16513499
Depends if you want to keep the alcohol or not.
If not then it's easy, you just run beer trough an evaporator and then freeze dry the resulting sludge or freeze dry from the start. Then have something like instant coffee, just add water and industrial alcohol and you have something like beer at the end. It will be expensive and stupid and taste bad but it will work.
If you want to keep the alcohol then you really can't do it. Or you can but it won't be very useful (even in comparison to the previous). You will need some kind of powder or gel to hold the alcohol in and with the way these things work you basically need at least 10 times the amount of gel than you do alcohol, so basically your dry beer will weight almost as much as regular beer and consist almost entirely of cellulose like materials that you have no way of removing from the "drink". It will likely be undrinkable if not poisonous, cause the shits at the very least, be incredibly expensive and probably weigh about as much as regular beer even before the water.

If you want to simulate this buy non alcoholic beer and vodka and mix those together.

>> No.16513587

>>16513580
well i dont personally drink beer cause i think it tastes great or anything.
i dont like it when i come across something thats just impossible but i guess this one us one of those things.

>> No.16513588

>>16513499
sure, benzos, they affect the same brain receptors as alcohol. Thats why when you get addicted to benzos you are also an alcoholic, chugging alcohol or eating benzos has the same effect

>> No.16513590

Couldn't you just freeze the alcohol and then grind that into a dust? You'd have to keep it below the freezing point of alcohol until ready to serve. Does alcohol break down at the molecular level when frozen?

>> No.16513602
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16513602

>>16513580
Theoretically, it should be possible to convert ethanol into a type of salts using chemical reaction. Then to recover the ethanol, use the opposite chemical reaction. For example we can combine sodium and ethanol to make sodium ethoxide. To undo, you theoretically could introduce hydrogen and heat the mixture. But it may be possible to get drunk just from eatting the salts. Then again it might just be poisonous I am not sure

>> No.16513603

>>16513590
alcohol has a pretty low freezing point, in fact one way of making strong beer is to freeze the beer until ice crystals start to form, and remove these crystals, which should be water+impurities

(sort of the opposite of distillation)