Can you survive on wine if there is no water?

[techs]

You could also include beer in the question.

 

[lxskllr]

I imagine you could. I think the hydrating effect would be greater than the dehydrating effect, but not by much. Imagine what your mouth would taste like after a couple days of wine and beer, with no water. I'd be angry.

 

[OCGuy]

Diuretics cause a net loss in water. Wine has even less water/alcohol ratio, so it is worse than beer.

In the end it will hasten death, but what the hell, might as well have a buzz if you are going to die anyway.

 

[Matthiasa]

If there is no water one would have bigger issues at hand.
Also... both of them are mostly water as it is so it could be distilled.

Additionally one can hydrate on beer... well most beer anyways.
Hint, water is actually a diuretic as well.

 

[sdifox]

wine is mostly water. but the ethanol will lead to dehydration. so evaporate it a bit

 

[Zeze]

Wine? You gotta be kidding me.

You can't hydrate yourself even on beer due to meager 5% alcohol. You'll get drunk and eventually puke at 10-20+ cans with ZERO source of other water, no matter what your tolerance level is.

Wine is like 12-16%. Forget about it.

 

[Drako]

Beer, yes. 4% alcohol content would be OK.

Wine, maybe, but the liver would be gone after a year

 

[SlitheryDee]

Beer yes, wine no.

 

[Drako]

Wine? You gotta be kidding me.

Wine is like 12-16%. Forget about it.

Wine is 8 to 14%, but yeah, way too strong to live on with a normal human liver. Keith Richards like people my be able to live OK :biggrin:

 

[trmiv]

They sure seem to do it on Game of Thrones.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Imagine what your mouth would taste like after a couple days of wine and beer, with no water...

A couple of days? I went through a couple of semesters like that.

 

[Paratus]

They sure seem to do it on Game of Thrones.

Impin ain't easy

 

[tfinch2]

A couple of my uncles only drink scotch, and they are in their 70's now...

 

[Imp]

Alcohol's a diuretic, but if you don't pee it out or drink the piss, would that help?... Rhetorical question/trolling.

On the other hand, I'm curious what the responses are.

 

[OverVolt]

You absolutely can drink even whiskey for your liquid intake, you must sip it every hour or so is all.

In a situation where there is no water I would be the guy trading for everyone's "useless" vodka/whiskey and live on that.

It also has calories, just saying.

 

[MaxPayne63]

A couple of my uncles only drink scotch, and they are in their 70's now...

Water... I never touch the stuff myself.

 

[Elbryn]

makes me wonder if one can reduce the abv of a say coors light with the alcohol smoking technique say 2-3 percentage points, enough to hydrating. one could then potentially collect the alcohol vapors and condense back for use in sterilizing things?

 

[lxskllr]

makes me wonder if one can reduce the abv of a say coors light with the alcohol smoking technique say 2-3 percentage points, enough to hydrating. one could then potentially collect the alcohol vapors and condense back for use in sterilizing things?

You'd be distilling. You'd make the Coors watery(would anyone notice?), and the worst whisky ever.

 

[Broheim]

beer is a perfectly good substitute for water, our ancestors used to drink it instead of water because it was safer. I can't remember at what % alcohol it becomes bad for you but i'd guess wine was perfectly fine as well, the french sure seemed to survive on it.

if you run a marathon drinking a couple of beers is actually good for you.

 

[Oyeve]

Only if its budweiser as that shit is mostly water anyway.

 

[nehalem256]

Alcohol's a diuretic, but if you don't pee it out or drink the piss, would that help?... Rhetorical question/trolling.

On the other hand, I'm curious what the responses are.

That actually sounds like it might work

 

[mmntech]

You probably couldn't survive on just wine, but beer most definitely. Provided the alcohol content is under 10%.

Back before water treatment existed, scientists discovered that brewers didn't get sick during cholera outbreaks. By the 19th century, many municipal water supplies, most notably London's, were obscenely contaminated with raw sewage that the water was basically poison. This came from the practice of digging latrines too close to the aquifers, or simply dumping human waste right onto the street. This fosters the growth of harmful bacteria. When beer is made, the grain mash is boiled killing this bacteria off.

Small beer was the most common beverage of the time. It was closer to modern low-alcohol beers. You could get away with it today drinking light or non-alcoholic beer.

 

[exdeath]

Yes. With a sheet of plastic and sufficient time and sunlight.

 

[zinfamous]

of course you can.

that's why wine and beer exist, anyway.

 

[bignateyk]

Diuretics cause a net loss in water. Wine has even less water/alcohol ratio, so it is worse than beer.

In the end it will hasten death, but what the hell, might as well have a buzz if you are going to die anyway.

Pretty sure that's not true. The original reason people drank beer was as a substitute for shitty quality drinking water.