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Jim Koch, founder and brewer of Sam Adams, says that he mixes a teaspoon of bakers yeast (not sure which) and yogurt to break down the alcohol before it hits the bloodstream and has been doing it for years if not decades.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/07/10/327854051/al...



One guy says it works. The rest of the article is about a small experiment that showed otherwise. Then it quotes experts who explain why it doesn't work and called it an urban legend.


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I heard a different variant of this, which is that Jim Koch the brewer at Sam Adams is a functioning alcoholic who drinks a lot throughout the day. The yogurt and yeast is an unrelated thing that he claims to work.


Doesn't yeast produce alcohol?

edit: ah, I read TFA:

> "Yeast can degrade ethanol," says microbiologist Benjamin Tu of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. "But they love other sugars — glucose, maltose — more. When those sugars are around, the cells turn off the genes needed for alcohol degradation."


Hypothetically, if the yeast could work fast enough(I'm 99% sure it can't unless he's leaving the mixture in a sealed container for a few months before drinking it) wouldn't this result in straight vinegar




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