What “Special Effect” Does Mixing Alcohol With Ice Have?
Question by Jay™: What “special effect” does mixing alcohol with ice have?
I mean, you’ve heard the term “(insert alcoholic drink here) on the rocks,” right? Why are the “rocks,” or ice, so special? How does it alter the drink? Does it make the alcohol stronger or absorb into the blood faster? What’s the ice do to the alcohol, whether it be something weak like beer or the hard liquor like whiskey?
Best answer:
Answer by Sarah
Ice keeps liquid cold for a certain time before it melts and renders your alcohol useless and disgusting, and allows bartenders to cheat you out of good alcohol, raising the level in the glass.
Ever had a watered down rum and coke? No, you wouldn’t be asking this if you had. It’s truly awful.
Edit: Is that a fact, Terry? Are you a bartender? I sense conspiracy…
You don’t believe bartenders do anything to conserve alcohol? Especially at awful nightclubs? Make them weak, load the glass with ice, and water down the alcohol? Go feed your unicorn. You’re living in fantasyland.
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