No you will not get drunk with pure alcohol, you will actually die, because pure alcohol raises your blood alcohol content to dangerous levels, I calculate for the average human, 5'8'' 170 pounds, no health problems, 3 shots of pure alcohol will knock you out from a really high BAC. If you mean the other kind of alchol ( I assume you mean Isopropyl alcohol ) You can't really drink it, because medical companies add a little surprise that makes you throw up everything just so you can't get drunk.
here are the general tables for alcohol proofs > Beer: 3 to 6 percent > Wine: 7 to 16 percent > Champagne: 8 to 13 percent > "Hard liquor" (i.e. rum, gin, vodka, whiskey): 30 to 95 percent
I knew that wine made people drunk when I was around eight years old.
I was first time drunk when I was 8 years old
and for the topic: it depends what you mean by pure...like I have tasted some stuff that was 96% and man that was tough sh**... but if you would have 100% pure it would be powder and you could not drink it...
DDX, although you are right on the percentages of the above listed alcohols, you didn't mention how much alcohol was in "roof". For example 100 proof whiskey contains 50% alcohol by volume; 86-proof whiskey contains 43% alcohol, and so on and so on. As far as I know the highest proof of liquor you can buy (in the U.S.) is 180 proof, which is 90% alcohol and 10% distilled water. I really don't recall any liquor that I have seen (or served as a bartender) that would be higher then 180 proof. Where is the liquor with more then 90% alcohol in it? Just as a footnote, I have only once seen two men drink actual shots of 180 proof liquor, other then that, it's usually used as a flamer for certain shots. My suggestion? Don't drink liquor.
DDX, although you are right on the percentages of the above listed alcohols, you didn't mention how much alcohol was in "roof". For example 100 proof whiskey contains 50% alcohol by volume; 86-proof whiskey contains 43% alcohol, and so on and so on. As far as I know the highest proof of liquor you can buy (in the U.S.) is 180 proof, which is 90% alcohol and 10% distilled water. I really don't recall any liquor that I have seen (or served as a bartender) that would be higher then 180 proof. Where is the liquor with more then 90% alcohol in it?
aw derp... I got mixed up... with that. I ment to say proofs not alcohol content. sorry bout that.
The proof system was originally applied in the form of a simple distillation test for British rum tariffs, if I recall correctly.
Bourbon FAQ's Evan Williams Black bottle What does "roof" mean?
Proof was originally "measured" with gunpowder. Back in the day, whiskey makers would "rove" that their alcohol was strong enough by mixing 1 part of their whiskey with 1 part gunpowder, then they would set the mixture on fire. If the "fire" had a blue flame it was considered to be "roven" whiskey. Many years later, when testing the "blue flame" alcohol in a lab, they found it to contain 50% alcohol; therefore giving the name 100 proof. Pretty interesting..huh?
