Can you dehydrate alcohol into a powder, to be rehydrated later?!
Answers: Can you dehydrate (licour) alcohol into a powder, to be rehydrated later?
They do make powdered alcohol. They don't dehydrate it though. They absorb it into a dry powder that you mix with water to make a flavoured drink. Apparently it is available in Europe and Japan. The German stuff is called Subyou. Their website is down and the company never would ship to North America.
Uhh.. nope.
Alcohol doesn't have water in it to "Dehydrate". If you take all the water out, you have grain alcohol. (your proof label is an indicator of the amount of water/flavor/color that is _not_ distilled alcohol in the bottle. 100 proof is fifty percent alcohol, 200 100 percent).
Alcohol is much more volatile than water, and cannot be "dehydrated' as it will evaporate before the water will.
This is the same reason cooking with alcohol won't get you schlockered, because the volatile alcohol flashes off in the heating process, and only leaves you with the flavors.
no, the only would be to rehydrate it with alcohol, and that just wouldn't work or someone would have done it already.
Not ethanol...if you could we would all know about it and they would sell it at REI.
Powders are generally chemical salts i.e. a negative ion and a positive ion joined so as to be chemically stable. When water is added the H and OH ends of the H2O pull the ions apart and the salt goes into solution. Chemically speaking an alcohol s a molecule that has a carbon atom with an OH radical attached and has a general formula C(n)H(2n+1)OH. But if you removed all the water from that you would be left with carbon and hydrogen in some kind of hydrocarbon or carbohydrate form that probably does not return to the alcohol form easily.
Ask a chemist.
If you dehydrate alcohol, you have nothing, because ethanol is more volatile than water. However, it is not impossible to make powder ethanol. Doesn't follow chemical or thermodynamic rules. However, there is such a thing as powdered alcoholic drinks that they have in Europe. Not sure how they pull that one off, but it does happen. It's the kool-aid of booze. I'm guessing there is some sort of chemical reaction that releases EtOH (ethanol) once hydrated. Or, some how EtOH was bonded to a crystalline form and was released once hydrated. We'll have to research this science later.