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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_dehydrogenase#Yeast_and_bacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_dehydrogenase#Yeast_and... If you manage to increase

by yread 13y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_dehydrogenase#Yeast_and_bacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_dehydrogenase#Yeast_and... If you manage to increase the concentration of alcohol in your stomach to levels when ADH2 kicks in (and keep sugar concentration low), it might work. But where is the fun in drinking without getting drunk?!

ssdfsdf 13y ago
Because as someone who is very sensitive to alcohol, I have spent my adult life resisting pressure to drink more. I often end up with 2 day hangovers, because yet again I have allowed someone to convince me that one more drink won't hurt. If this works I will be using it...
- tripzilch 13y ago
  Be sure to read the rest of this thread (and possibly the link to the Reddit discussion), it seems that while it might prevent drunkness, it doesn't do much to prevent the hangover part.
1337biz 13y ago
There are occasions where you want to get drunk and other occasions where you want others to be drunk. Especially when you are a lightweight and have to go out with people from the office etc. Lots of opportunities there.
dagw 13y ago
I'd love nothing more than to be able to drink without getting drunk. Being able to knock back a bottle of wine with dinner and then a second bottle after dinner without any side effects would be dream come true. I love the pleasurable effects of alcohol as much as the next person, but 4 times out of 5 I'm only after the flavor and being forced to stop drinking something that tastes awesome due to the effect it's about to have on me totally sucks.
- eli 13y ago
  Non alcoholic beer & wine does exist.
  - charlysisto 13y ago
    Yes it's called grape juice : the wine you drink because the taste is 'divine' doesn't exist in a non alcoholic form. Don't know about beer though
    - dagw 13y ago
      The best non-alcoholic beers are, relatively speaking, better than non-alcoholic wine, but the selection is basically limited to fairly mundane German style lagers and even the best ones (Jever is probably the best I've tasted) are inferior to even most mass-produced lager.
      - hessenwolf 13y ago
        Clausthaller (not the canned), Paulaner Helles and Hefe-Weiß, Erdinger Weiß, Lämmbrau, and Hacker Pschorr Helles are all very tasty tipples. Spaten Helles is wretched, and Löwenbrau Helles is surprisingly not too terrible, given the regular stuff is garbage.
        tripzilch 13y ago
        The non-alcoholic Erdinger Weissbier is probably the best non-alcoholic beer I've tasted. You need to get "into" it a little before you realize it actually does taste like beer, except without the alcohol, and how much part of the flavour alcohol actually is (even with the relatively low 5% ABV that most beers are). Also, and this may differ per regulations where you are, but many "non-alcoholic" beers do in fact contain up to 0.5% alcohol (including the Erdinger Weizener). So you'd have to drink 10 of them to feel the buzz of one normal beer, but I'd expect by that time you'd be feeling something else, over the buzz from a single beer :-P
jobu 13y ago
It seems crazy there isn't more information about using yeast on the internet. Perhaps it's because most people drink to get drunk. One question for chemists or biologists out there: If the byproduct of the yeast is acetaldehyde, wouldn't that cause the uncomfortable "Asian Flush"? (http://bsclarified.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/im-not-drunk-i-just-have-a-deficient-enzyme/ http://bsclarified.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/im-not-drunk-i-j...)

by yread 13y ago

ssdfsdf 13y ago

Because as someone who is very sensitive to alcohol, I have spent my adult life resisting pressure to drink more. I often end up with 2 day hangovers, because yet again I have allowed someone to convince me that one more drink won't hurt. If this works I will be using it...

tripzilch 13y ago
Be sure to read the rest of this thread (and possibly the link to the Reddit discussion), it seems that while it might prevent drunkness, it doesn't do much to prevent the hangover part.

1337biz 13y ago

There are occasions where you want to get drunk and other occasions where you want others to be drunk. Especially when you are a lightweight and have to go out with people from the office etc. Lots of opportunities there.

dagw 13y ago

I'd love nothing more than to be able to drink without getting drunk. Being able to knock back a bottle of wine with dinner and then a second bottle after dinner without any side effects would be dream come true. I love the pleasurable effects of alcohol as much as the next person, but 4 times out of 5 I'm only after the flavor and being forced to stop drinking something that tastes awesome due to the effect it's about to have on me totally sucks.

eli 13y ago
Non alcoholic beer & wine does exist.
- charlysisto 13y ago
  Yes it's called grape juice : the wine you drink because the taste is 'divine' doesn't exist in a non alcoholic form. Don't know about beer though
  - dagw 13y ago
    The best non-alcoholic beers are, relatively speaking, better than non-alcoholic wine, but the selection is basically limited to fairly mundane German style lagers and even the best ones (Jever is probably the best I've tasted) are inferior to even most mass-produced lager.
    - hessenwolf 13y ago
      Clausthaller (not the canned), Paulaner Helles and Hefe-Weiß, Erdinger Weiß, Lämmbrau, and Hacker Pschorr Helles are all very tasty tipples. Spaten Helles is wretched, and Löwenbrau Helles is surprisingly not too terrible, given the regular stuff is garbage.
      - tripzilch 13y ago
        The non-alcoholic Erdinger Weissbier is probably the best non-alcoholic beer I've tasted. You need to get "into" it a little before you realize it actually does taste like beer, except without the alcohol, and how much part of the flavour alcohol actually is (even with the relatively low 5% ABV that most beers are). Also, and this may differ per regulations where you are, but many "non-alcoholic" beers do in fact contain up to 0.5% alcohol (including the Erdinger Weizener). So you'd have to drink 10 of them to feel the buzz of one normal beer, but I'd expect by that time you'd be feeling something else, over the buzz from a single beer :-P

jobu 13y ago

It seems crazy there isn't more information about using yeast on the internet. Perhaps it's because most people drink to get drunk. One question for chemists or biologists out there: If the byproduct of the yeast is acetaldehyde, wouldn't that cause the uncomfortable "Asian Flush"? (http://bsclarified.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/im-not-drunk-i-just-have-a-deficient-enzyme/ http://bsclarified.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/im-not-drunk-i-j...)