I found no info about it in Google so I came here to ask.
We all know the process that liquor stores are using to create sanitary alcohol because of the current situation, but I wondered, can you reverse this process?
Like, turn sanitizer into the classical beer you drink with your friends. Is it posible?
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Denaturants have been added. In theory you could but it is intentionally difficult to separate the components. It would be easier to make your own alcohol.
The best possible outcome would be to obtain a solution containing ethanol, water, and nothing else. (Aka pretty much grain alcohol). One such way would be to set up a distillation process, but I can’t speak if the desired result is reasonably practical using commercial hand sanitizer as a input.
While hand sanitizers contain ethanol, they can also contain other harmful chemicals which you don’t want to ingest. That also ignores that there has been recalls due to methanol bring used in some cheaper products. Methanol is deadly. So in summary, not recommended. But to answer your question, it can’t become a “beer” again as it was distilled, and any flavors from the source are no longer there. Beer is also hopped, and the ethanol source won’t be hopped as it would be a waste of time and money to do so.
The answer is no.
First of all, rubbing alcohol, or sanitizer alcohol, likely isn’t [ethanol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol), it’s typically [isopropyl alcohol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol), and your liver can’t digest it, it’s poisonous.
Second, sanitary alcohol just has the alcohol in it, and water. Beer, wine, even whiskey, tequila, or other strong drinks, have flavors, carbonation (foam), and other ingredients, all of these are filtered out and discarded, and you can’t “magic” them back into the sanitary alcohol, to get your beer back.
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