Let us set the goal of diluting alcohol with water to obtain a drinking mixture or, generally speaking, to make vodka. Let's take as a basis that you want to get a product with 40% or so alcohol content.
In his famous dissertation, Mendeleev did not study vodka. He determined that when alcohol is mixed with water, the total volume of the mixture decreases, and he calculated how much of the final product "disappears" at various ratios. It turned out that this dependence is nonlinear and depends on which hydrates are formed with this or that mixing. Therefore, mixing in arbitrary ratios will lead to an arbitrary result. The quality of the final product largely depends on the quality of the ingredients and, as already mentioned, their ratio.
It is necessary
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- Drinking alcohol,
- Water,
- Glucose 40%,
- Vinegar essence,
- Capacity.
Instructions
Step 1
The highest purity alcohol is produced from grain and potatoes, Lux and Extra - from specially selected grain varieties. According to the degree of purification, alcohol is divided into:
First grade 96%;
Highest purification 96.2%;
Extra 96.5%;
Luxury 69.3%;
Medical;
Anhydrous.
The water should be completely transparent, colorless, without foreign taste and smell, with a minimum of salts contained in it. The water taken for vodka is additionally purified, filtered and softened. Such water is called corrected.
To improve the taste of vodka, various ingredients may be present in its composition:
Honey;
Lemon acid;
Sugar;
Milk;
Acetic acid.
The general principles are as follows: It is believed that the "golden ratio" is when two parts of alcohol are mixed with three parts of water. It is advisable to mix not the volumes of alcohol and water, but their exact weight ratios. The water is added to the alcohol. You can pour both liquids into the container at the same time, but the introduction of alcohol should end before water.
Step 2
Alcohol (1250 ml of 96% alcohol) is poured into the prepared container;
Step 3
Add 40 ml of 40% glucose;
Step 4
A teaspoon of vinegar essence;
Step 5
Top up with distilled water, bringing the solution volume up to 3 liters;
Step 6
We leave the resulting solution to stand for several days, or better - a week or two.
Step 7
Refrigerate before use.
