Can beer and liquor be drunk together? How to check the alcohol content of beer

The raw materials of beer are: barley, brewing water, hops, yeast, corn, sugar, wheat, rice, etc. It is an alcoholic beverage. Today we share some tips on drinking beer in daily life. First, let's share what everyone is most concerned about: can beer and liquor be drunk together? How to read the beer degree and ingredient list? I hope it will be useful to you.

Contents of this article

1. Can beer and liquor be drunk together?

2. How to read the alcohol content of beer

3. Beer ingredients

Can beer and liquor be drunk together?

Liquor has a high alcohol content and can irritate the throat, so beer can help relieve it. However, drinking a mixture of liquor and beer can make you drunk more easily, and the discomfort may be greater than the feeling of drunkenness from drinking only one of the two types of alcohol, causing the feeling of drunkenness to come earlier, causing dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even other symptoms.

It is taboo to mix liquor and beer, mainly because liquor and beer are of different natures.

Liquor is a distilled liquor, and beer is a fermented liquor. The ingredients of the two liquors are different.

The main component of liquor is ethanol. Beer contains many components such as carbon dioxide, peptides and amino acids, inorganic salts, vitamins, antioxidants such as polyphenols, some of which can promote the absorption of ethanol.

How to read the alcohol content of beer

The degree on the beer represents the concentration of malt juice. Generally speaking, the concentration of malt juice is positively correlated with the alcohol content of beer. An alcohol content of 6°~8° is a low-concentration beer, an alcohol content of 10°~12° is a medium-concentration beer, and an alcohol content of about 3.5%, 14°~20° is a high-concentration beer.

The raw materials of beer include: barley, brewing water, hops, yeast, corn, sugar, wheat, rice, etc. It is an alcoholic beverage.

Beer contains: carbon dioxide, multiple amino acids, vitamins, low-molecular sugars, inorganic salts and various enzymes, etc.

Famous Chinese beers include: Tibet Barley Beer, Tsingtao Beer, Snow Beer, Yanjing Beer, Harbin Beer, Pearl River Beer, etc.

Beer Ingredients

The main ingredients of beer are unmalted rice, other cereals, starch or sucrose, etc. The raw materials of beer mainly include water, malt (barley malt, wheat malt), hops and yeast. The alcohol in beer is produced by malt fermentation.

Water accounts for about 90% of beer. The quality of brewing water directly affects the quality and flavor of beer.

Beer brewing water refers to the water used for saccharification and washing the barley trough. Beer brewing water is called the "blood of beer".

Malt is the "skeleton of beer". The composition and quality of malt directly affect the flavor and quality of beer.