Can foreign liquor be drunk directly?

Nowadays, people's living conditions have become very good, so there are more and more choices in food, and they will drink foreign liquors from various countries. The types and tastes of each foreign liquor are completely different, but they can all be drunk directly without any further mixing. If you drink in moderation, it will still bring some benefits to your body, but you can't drink excessively.

Foreign liquor is a general term for imported alcoholic beverages. It includes spirits, beer, wine, liqueur, etc., all kinds of alcoholic beverages with different alcohol content. The process of making wine is inseparable from the fermentation process, which breaks down sugars into ethanol (alcohol), a drinkable liquid, through the action of yeast.

The ethanol content is between 0.5% and 75.5%, and it also contains certain nutrients and flavor ingredients. There are tens of thousands of types of wine around the world, and the raw materials used in brewing and the alcohol content of the wine also vary greatly. In order to make it easier to understand and remember, people classify them in different ways. If wine is classified according to its raw materials, it can be roughly divided into seven categories: grain wine, spice and herbal wine, fruit wine, milk and egg wine, plant pulp wine, mead wine and mixed wine.

The room temperature of red wine is 18~20℃. After opening the bottle, you need to wait for 15~30 minutes for the wine to be decanted so that it will be mellow, smooth and easy to drink. It goes well with meat, onions and cheese. The wine glass is wide-mouthed, upright and thick.

White wine 10~12℃ Cool in an ice bucket before opening the bottle. The amount of wine should not exceed half of the glass capacity and it is best paired with seafood. Wine glass tulip shaped goblet.

The amount of room temperature brandy should not exceed 1/5 of the glass capacity. When drinking, hold the bottom of the glass with your palm to gradually warm up the brandy with the temperature of your palm. Shake the glass at any time to allow the aroma to slowly escape and gather at the mouth of the glass. Smell and taste it slowly, which can help digestion and promote blood circulation. A wine glass with a small round mouth and short feet.

When drinking whiskey neat at room temperature or with ice and mineral water, usually add 1/3 of ice cubes into an upright glass, then pour the whiskey so that the amount does not exceed the ice cubes. However, high-aged whiskey should be drunk neat to appreciate its delicateness and aroma. A short, upright wine glass.

Alcohol content

The invention of the British and American alcohol proofs preceded the emergence of standard alcohol proofs, and they are both expressed in terms of alcohol purity, "proof". But the three alcohol content can be converted. Therefore, if you know the British alcohol content and want to calculate its American alcohol content or standard alcohol content, you can calculate it with the following formula:

Standard alcohol content x 1.75 = Imperial alcohol content

Standard alcohol content x2 = US alcohol content

British alcohol content x8/7 = US alcohol content