Kingsley Amis, the novelist, has some excellent essays on drinking. He claimed that if you mostly drank large quantities of neat spirits, a large proportion wou

Kingsley Amis, the novelist, has some excellent essays on drinking. He claimed that if you mostly drank large quantities of neat spirits, a large proportion would end up passing undigested out the other end, but by drinking water you were diluting it to the perfect concentration for max alcohol absorption.