Can you turn sanitizer back into liquor?

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

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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