I Wonder if this is real.

[Realalcholic420]

Anyone ever think non alcohol understanding people think alcohol is made like in a laboratory like caffeine is?

 

[bracconiere]

i thought caffeine was grown in plants? (mostly)

i guess a person could synthesize it but, i've read a patent for making industrial ethanol also. and with the effort most people put into cleaning and sanitizing 'round here. it practically is a lab environment!

 

[FromZwolle]

Anyone ever think non alcohol understanding people think alcohol is made like in a laboratory like caffeine is?

no one's every asked you "when you add the alcohol to your beer?"

 

[bracconiere]

no one's every asked you "when you add the alcohol to your beer?"

LOL, no! but the last time someone gave me a ride to swap my co2 tank, they ask me what i used it to heat up!

(brewing and knowing how easy/simple it is you forget, everyone starts somewhere! )

 

[FromZwolle]

LOL, no! but the last time someone gave me a ride to swap my co2 tank, they ask me what i used it to heat up!

did you tell them it heats up your love-life?

 

[bracconiere]

did you tell them it heats up your love-life?

he would have known i was lying! but it would have been funnier! i'll try to remember that one for next time!

(all i did is the nobel thing and explain the force carbing process )

edit: i did get a kick out of it a year or so ago, when he asked how i make beer though. i knew he wasn't probably actually interested, and instead of laying down a basic extract batch. i explained how i malt the barley, brew with it, and ferment it!
LOL

 

[Qhrumphf]

I thought this when I was like, 12.

I also thought caffeine was plant-derived as well, and not lab synthesized. Same way industrial ethanol is made from fermented and distilled corn (usually), is it not? I imagine both could be synthesized in a lab but nature is probably a combo of cheaper, easier, faster, safer, and/or more reliable.

 

[Qhrumphf]

(looked it up, caffeine is commonly found both naturally and synthesized)

 

[bracconiere]

is it not?

no, i'd have to look it up again.

https://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/alcohols/manufacture.html
not sure if that's the one i remember.

 

[bracconiere]

(looked it up, caffeine is commonly found both naturally and synthesized)

and coffee brewed from fresh coffee beans is a GREAT source of riboflavin, and pantothenic acid!

 

[Qhrumphf]

no, i'd have to look it up again.

https://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/alcohols/manufacture.html
not sure if that's the one i remember.

Rhetorical question.

Most ethanol is made from fermented and distilled corn.

 

[bracconiere]

Most ethanol is made from fermented and distilled corn.

i believe it is...

Rhetorical question.

damn, i'd have to google rhetorical, to find out what it means, lol (but seriously i would, i get the ethene water phosphoric acid is a equilibrium reaction, but all i know of the comment rhetorical question thing...is you didn't expect an answer, lol, i honestly don't know what the word means )

 

[Realalcholic420]

I think chocolate and coffee have caffeine but they must extract it or synthesize it for stuff like mountain dew. Alcohol seems a lot more natural than most people think. Dang I wrote this when I was drunk and stoned and totally forgot I posted this.

 

[bracconiere]

chocolate has a analog of caffeine, called theobromine...bad for dogs....

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

LOL, no! but the last time someone gave me a ride to swap my co2 tank, they ask me what i used it to heat up!

Didn't they do something like that on an episode of Mythbusters?

 

[Pkrd]

There was a multinational company mixing cheap industrial alcohol with bourbon and coke down hereabouts. They use real bourbon after getting into legal trouble.