unbelievable facts about alcohol

Unbelievable Facts About Alcohol

Interesting alcohol facts from Drinkaware, to help you be more aware of what you're drinking.
1. Diet mixers get you more drunk
According to study conducted in early 2013, spirits mixed with diet pop get you 18 percent drunker than spirits mixed with the full fat varieties. The theory is that your body recognises full sugar drinks as food, which slows down alcohol absorption, whereas diet drinks do not. So before you tease anyone for ordering a vodka and Diet Coke, remember They are drinking the hard stuff.
2. Wanting to get drunk is natural Possibly
The drunken monkey hypothesis put forward by Dr. Robert Dudley of the University of California suggests that human attraction to ethanol (pure alcohol) may have a genetic basis.He argued that the primate ancestor of homo sapiens had a high dependence on fruit as a food source, and consequently developed a genetic attraction to ripe and overripe fruit, which contains you guessed it ethanol. Hurrah.
3. Big lads are not necessarily the biggest drinkers
A beer belly might mean you have consumed a lot in the past, but it doesnotmean you can automatically handle more alcohol in one go than someone slimmer. In fact, a lean person will be less affected by booze because water rich muscle tissues absorb alcohol effectively, preventing it from reaching the brain.
4. Aliens are at it too
Or at least they could be, if they wanted. Astronomers discovered that there is quite a lot of ethanol in space. As much as 400 trillion trillion beers worth, actually, floating around in an interstellar cloud roughly 10,000 light years from Earth.
5. Cenosillicaphobia is a real phobia
And it means being scared of an empty glass, which may just be the cleverest name for someone who loves a tipple ever invented.
6. It is possible to spend euro700 on one bottle of beer
Thought to be the world most expensive, a 12 litre bottle of Vieille Bon Secours ale will cost you the best part of grand. It is available in a small number of London restaurants and hotels, has a volume of 8 percent, and is said to have a complex citric, caramel, and toffee flavour with an undertone of liquorice and aniseed.
7. Tequila has a lot in common with champagne
Both drinks have Denomination of Origin, meaning they can only be produced in one place (a certain region of Mexico and France, respectively). Also, like champagne, tequila is one of the most closely regulated drinks in the world, watched by the Mexican government, the Tequila Regulatory Council, and the National Chamber of Tequila Producers. And you thought it was just some kind of moonshine brewed in a crazy man bath.
8. Britain isnotthe booziest place in the world
Nor is Ireland, Russia, or any other country typically associated with a love for the sauce. Instead, that dubious honour goes to South Korea, who, according to a 2011 World Health Organization study, drinks more hard spirits than anywhere else and is where Jinro soju comes from, the best selling spirit on the planet.
9. Champagne is dangerous
And not just because it makes you attempt the worm at wedding discos, either. Thanks to the approximately 49 million bubbles in each one, the pressure in a bottle of champagne is 90 pounds per square inch three times the pressure in car tires meaning a popped cork really could take your eye out.
10. You wonotfind a drunk moose in Alaska
A bizarre law makes feeding booze to moose illegal in the state, meaning you are unlikely to encounter one as thoroughly hammered as this guy from Sweden who got off his tree and then into one after guzzling down some rotten fruit in 2011.