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Interesting that higher rice content in beer "revealed buttery, vanilla and creamy notes" and "was correlated with increased levels of larger alcohol molecules,
by creamyhorror 1y ago
Interesting that higher rice content in beer "revealed buttery, vanilla and creamy notes" and "was correlated with increased levels of larger alcohol molecules, like 3-methyl-1-butanol, which contribute positively to mouthfeel without raising the alcohol content above the legal nonalcoholic beer threshold." Do those larger alcohol compounds have known downsides similar to ethanol (e.g. carcinogenicity)? I'd sure like lower-alcohol beers that pose less health risk.
Most mainstream Japanese lager is made partially from rice (in these lagers, over 1/3rd of the grain used is rice), so the flavor difference is probably already familiar to many people.
- someothherguyy 1y ago> Do those larger alcohol compounds have known downsides similar to ethanol (e.g. carcinogenicity)? From a cursory search, yes. It is more toxic than ethanol, even in gross terms like LD50. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamylol#section=Toxicity https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamylol#section=... https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/hsdb/605 https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/source/hsdb/605
- ginko 1y agoLonger alcohols also contribute a lot to hangovers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusel_alcohol?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusel_alcohol?useskin=vector
- normie3000 1y agoNice, so we can have a beer that doesn't get us drunk, but does give a hangover?
- b112 1y agoA puritian dream. Pay, sinner, pay for your hedonistic pleasures!
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> A puritian dream. Pay, sinner, pay for your hedonistic pleasures! I am not aware of such uses for alcohol, but for hallocinogenic drugs, there exist people who don't use them for hedonistic pleasures, but for getting creative, scientific or spiritual inspirations.
- lukan 1y agoHuh? Alcohol not used for creativity? Ask all the writers who drank themself to death .. or rather, how many writers didn't become alcoholics at some point. (But personally I don't like alcohol for creativity)
- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> Alcohol not used for creativity? > Ask all the writers who drank themself to death I know the names of some famous writers who drank too much, but I am very much willing to admit that people who are using alcohol for creativity are far outside the bubble of people who I am surrounded with, so I can legitimately claim that from my personal life I am not aware of any single example of this phenomenon.
- lukan 1y agoYes, but to be pedantic, your claim was "I am not aware of such uses for alcohol", not that you are not aware of such uses in your personal life ..
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoI indeed didn't know whether such writers drank out of bad habit, or for creativity.
- saltcured 1y agoEarly in my career in the 90s, I knew more than one programmer who claimed to be most productive when buzz-coding. I never really understood it. To me, focusing intently on a task always seemed like a good way to kill a nice buzz.
- trehalose 1y agoYour claim contradicts the article you linked.