Why is Alcohol Content Referred to as Proof?
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The process began in England around the 16th century. Its original purpose was not consumer protection, but rather to ensure that the state (read: the King) collected the proper amount of taxes on the sale of the product (alcohol, called proof spirits, was taxed at a higher rate).
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Why is Tennis scored the way it is? 0-15-30-40-love?
Regal yes!
I can tell you the term "love" in tennis is actually a bastardization of the French word for egg, "l’oeuf". Because 0 is shaped like an egg. Other than that, I have no idea. I've heard that 15, 30 and 40 refer to the positions of the minute hand of a clock. Except, why is it 40 and not 45?
+Charles Jones
> Except, why is it 40 and not 45?
I guess the answer is something like: They said "well, let's do it like that for now and think about a system later", and then it just stuck. :-)
Love is zero
As a former lab tech for a distillery I know that pure alcohol (100%, 200 proof in America) is sold but not for personal consumption because of poisonous trace compounds.
To get 100% ethanol (ignoring the trace compounds), hexane is added to ethanol that still has water and heated to higher temperatures than used to distill. The hexane binds both ethanol and water and forms a molecule called an azeotrope. The temperature is lowered and water breaks from the azeotrope first. At a still lower temperature, ethanol breaks from the hexane, and you have 100% ethanol. This ethanol is delivered directly to a tank with gasoline, and that tank is hitched to a semi - tractor - trailer (a semi). This tank truck has internal stirrers to mix ethanol and gasoline. It is not sold directly to individuals but ends up in the consumables people use (like BASF products).
ginnyjollykidd this comment deserves way more credit and attention.
There's a slight difference between wormwood and woodworm.
Martin Willett the woodworm is the species of worm that lives in my pants.
@@dhorto27 Rofl
"this is an example of beneficial government regulation"
"it was created to collect taxes"
🤔🤔🤔
Originally,he was first referring to the modern context. also why is taxation not beneficial? Helps the country function
@@THEMEISTER004 because many things are needlessly taxed just because they can
@@Nopenotatall alcohol being taxed is to discourage heavy drinking just like high prices and taxation on tobacco
Back during the US Prohibition Era, bootleg alcohol was so suspect that many buyers would send small samples of it to chemists for testing to ensure purity. Apparently one such customer got a letter back from a chemist reading "We regret to inform you that your horse has diabetes."
British Vsauce
I still don't understand the relevance of "proof" in the modern world
Probably to make it sound a stronger alcohol content than it actually is - lots of gullible consumers out there.
Thermal Ions It's to encourage teenagers to buy it
Simon can you do a video on pyramid schemes/Multi level marketing (MLMs) like World Financial Group, Amway and Herbalife
Alias Fakename You mean like the video made by John Oliver...?
Or just cover the biggest pyramid scheme of all: capitalism.
MedEighty A pyramid scheme is not capitalism. Capitalism is when someone has something to leverage, they invest it and they get a return on their investment... hopefully. In capitalism, I can do a transaction with someone else and only myself and the other party, are the only one to get anything out of it. Not always, but it is possible to do a business in Capitalism just like that. A pyramid scheme, the upline benefit from every deal and every new convert or recruit.
If I recruit you to work for me, and you come come and take out my trash and I pay you. Only you and I benefit from that deal. You do not need to recruit anyone else to take out my trash. In a pyramid scheme, I would recruit you and you would pay me to join. My upline and my upline's upline, three levels up, would all get a cut of what you gave me to work for yourself. You then have no choice but to stop at that point or go get recruits. They pay you and I and 2 more levels up all get a cut of each recruit you get. They in turn do what all of us do, recruit and charge others to do the same. It does not require any product or service to function. Pyramid schemes adopted a Capitalist business model, because Pyramid schemes were outlawed in the USA. Capitalism is not a pyramid scheme, it is an agreement between two parties to exchange goods and or services, agreed upon by the two parties for a set fee, in a free and sometimes fair market.
MedEighty
The pyramid scheme is socialism/communism. The masses have to pay in so an elite idle few can benefit. capitalism is based on effort and ability therefore not a pyramid scheme.
You misspelled "Socialism". Socialism is FAR more like a pyramid scheme than capitalism.
are you sure you mean woodworm? Or is it Wormwood? :-D
So that wasn't my imagination.
Daniel Miller i remember wormwood. It has fujone.
Captions actually say Wormwood.
Definitely "wormwood"... Grinding any variety of wood-worms into liquor would just be gross. Simon calls these moments "verbal typos". :o)
Wormwood is a common name for several herbs, mostly Artemisia species.
What do you get when you mix holy water and vodka?
A holy spirit.
You can't mix water and alcohol
MrTohawk you are mistaken... did you even watch the video its about alcohol being dilluted with water.
MrTohawk alcohol is polar, water is polar. I think they can mix just fine.
You can't mix water and gasoline. But, if you mix equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate, you can make napalm.
Dyler Turden now im a biologist not a chemist but im pretty sure thats not how napalm works
Can you do a video on why your last name is Whistler. For instance, did your ancestors whistle very well, perhaps in a symphony setting or elsewhere?
And are you related to Whistler's mother?
That was a great ad! I would have never guessed that there is a course on military blunders.
I'm so glad absinthe is back. I got obsessed with it back when the video for Nine Inch Nail's The Perfect Drug came out, and imported a few bottles from Spain in the late 90s/early 00s. It became my favorite drink I could never have because importing was so expensive.
I've wondered about this for a long time. Thank you Today I Found Out.
"Woodworm"' Heh. Simon purposely miss-pronounces a word in every video in order to garner comments. It works, I comment every time!
thanks for the course reccomendation i am going to get it asap :)
You didn't mention: there is no 100% pure alcohol in stores because there is a point at which it can't get any more pure --
unless you're a lab scientist. Also, you said "Woodworm", hehe.
In Australia we measure alcohol content by alcohol percentage
In both the US and UK, by law so do we, but more for beer and wine and not for spirits. "Proof" is only for spirits such as vodka, rum, whiskey/whisky, absinthe, etc., but beer or wine.
finally a channel/ video that will give both fahrenheit and celsius rather than just a bigoted one or the other, leaving a large portion of viewers unaware of the fact presented and thus not caring about the video. Thumbs up for that!
I think the alcohol by volume limit in CA is 76%, not 60%. I live in LA and the store near me sells 151 proof bottles.
I appreciate your consistency with videos
I have a bottle of absinthe on the shelf, it's so frikkin good. Glad it's legal now!
Y do I get bloody eyes in chlorine
TWOHEAD Inc I'm told its actually urine in the water
TWOHEAD Inc because you shouldn't be opening your eyes
Specter Erector I dont
I used to
Chemical reaction of chlorine with urine. That also causes that swimming pool smell as well as an irritation on breathing if this concentration gets too much.
As soon as I hear Simon Whistler I know I'm in for a good time 😭
This video started with a liquor advertisement 😂
Can you make a video of behind the seens on how you are able to put these videos together, 2 in fact per day? its pretty amazing.
ian 'Scenes'
All I got was confused. Maybe I should watch it when I am drunk.
Hey Simon Whistler and Co. I realize you guys are on a bit of an alcohol-related video bender but could you do a video on why ancient Egyptians are associated with the peculiar walk where both arms are bent, one is held in front palm up, the other held in back palm down.
which ones? i cant find any on google that look like the stereotype
Video ends at 3:55, not 5:57, more ads than info on this channel lately
one of the tests at my job is determining ethanol purity by gas chromatography. GCs can be a far more accurate method but specific gravity is still used and can be matched to the purity pretty well. I have tested incredibly high purities. But just cause ethanol is 99% pure, doesn't mean that 1% won't kill ya.
You guy's should do "How do they determine TV ratings?"
Funny, i live in California and have no trouble getting a bottle of 151 or Everclear, Both have ABV of 75.5%
Why are sleeveless undershirts called tank tops?
Un-ironed shirt at 0:21, magic pressed shirt at 0:26
Jeremy Clarkson once stated that "you should only be able to design a Lamborghini after drinking 8 bottles of Absinthe"...
Center your attention here, And when the room decompresses. You'll Preoccupy in the loudest definition.
What an utterly insane practice that should be gotten rid off yesterday, along with the imperial system of measurement. Standardisation all the way.
I've got another "weird redundant Imperial alcohol measurement" question: what's a "handle", and why do people only seem to measure brown booze like whiskey in it?
Also, why are "gallons" a thing when a gallon is just 4 quarts? And why are "quarts" a thing when one quart is just 2 pints? And why are any of those a thing when one pint is just 2 cups? And...
What about Everclear? It used to be sold in Nevada.
I just like it when he turns his head a little to the side and his glasses disappear into the green screen
Today I found out that Simon Whistler needs a new clothes iron
Shit, lucky I have a masters degree in Rocket Science, Chemistry and Street Hustle to understand and keep up with this explanation...... bruh
ERNST Hemingway? Was he a contemporary of Goethe?
I was secretly hoping this video was sponsored by Jack Daniels.
Well, apparently Wild Turkey is pretty close to the limit of tolerable proof for drinking...
what did you do to your thumb?
How many miles of drive throws are on earth
wow... that was a long ad.
kinda disappointed you didn't touch on gauge too... (as in firearms)
was that ground wormwood with absinthe? not woodworm kek?
Where did the word "okay" originate. And why is it used in many other languages besides English?
Tim P.
Do this video really explain why alcohol content is referred to as Proof in certain countries?
I got _how_ it is that way. But _why_, totally missed that.
If it could be caught on fire, it was 'proof' that it was alcohol.
Joni Larsen-Haikarainen
More often it was taxation purposes. Ethanol is quite lucrative, so if you're selling barrels of it, that's a lot of potential revenue that can be raised for the government.
@Florida Ladybug That doesn't satisfy the terms of the question.
Why do pirates make people walk the plank?
What time now
Why I come late to see Simon video
#AlwaysThanksSimon
Can you do an episode on how close you would have to be in water during a lightning strike for it to be fatal? Would there be a difference in distance from freshwater to saltwater??
Why the hell the UK system's must complicate everything in this world
at first i thought these were irritating somehow. now i think theyre relaxing and interesting
I was assuming this video would've been sponsored by Shaker and Spoon as well. :P
One of my favorite authors of all time?
Ernst Hemingway
Today in the US, ABV is more common than proof on most alcohol labels.
Could we get that in lay men terms please and pass the bottle my friend.
Ground "woodworm"? Ha! I hope you simply misread that, as it's called "wormwood".
the short answer is: Proof is nonsense.
PLEASE DO EASTERN AIRLINES FLIGHT 401.
At 2:07 u say 16.9% instead of 6.9%, which makes a confusing video even more confusing.
One of the rare channels where I don't mind the sponsoring because the content is great.
It's definitely wormwood in absinthe, woodworm is something very, very different.
Today's vid was obviously not sponsored by an iron, lol. Great vid though, I always wondered this!
How to make holy water. Boil the hell out of it.
Could you do a video on why the word whiskey/whisky has 2 spellings?
Three quarters of this video was awesome. (skip advertising....)
Why do you park in a DRIVEway and drive in a PARKway
Pretty sure they did this already.
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I thought if the gunpowder soaked in the spirit caught on fire it was classified as overproof and if it didn't it was called underproof?
Why do they put pineapple flavouring in some types of butter?
I had Absinthe once. It was 140 proof, and it tasted like shiit despite being poured through a strainer with a sugar cube in it. Tasted like Jägermeister mixed with vodka.
Sadly, there were no hallucinations.
You didn't drink enough
It doesn't have wormwood
You've already done a video on this
Absinthe is the best drink I have ever had to date.
So Johnny sims likes alcohol too
Absinthe makes the 'art grow fonder, eh?
New shirt Simon??
Ok, I got confused pretty quickly there, still no idea what proof means.
"Proof" of a liquid's content actually containing alcohol, and originally done so for tax purposes. The Crown (UK government) "proved" it by dipping a musket ball in the liquid and set it on fire; if it burned, the liquid was "proven" to have alcohol in it. Hence, "proof" it was alcohol. The number is based on the percent of alcohol proven.
That explains why I can get absinthe easily nowadays.
I have a question, what would happen if we were to colonize another planet? Like what country or countries would make the boundaries and/or the laws.
Good video well done keep it up
Two videos in a row about alcohol? You guys alright over there?
What is proof
was half this video an advert?
A delicious IPA at 16.9%? 2:05
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder. Also, the proof is in the pudding.
crazy how alcohol loses its proof aged.
Aye!!! thanks simon
I hope your thumb heal up fast and nicely
Ozzy Osborne is the green fairy!
16.9% ABV IPA? According to your later numbers and calculations, I believe you added 10 to your intended value of 6.9% ABV. Also, 16.9% ABV would be some sort of liquor, not beer. :-)
What we really need on the label is % liver damage per gallon.
is it true in America we don't get "real" absinthe?
What happened to your left thumb?
So is jack Daniels illegal in California? Will absinthe make you hallucinate? Im so confused
No and no.
I still didn't not understand it! 🤦
I still prefer Channing Tatum’s explanation in the Golden Circle...