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It's just like how all that panic of "Powdered alcohol" was absurdly bullshit!

All the news and the company's marketing was implying it was more concentrated by being "dried", like you would concentrate all sorts of things.

Except alcohol is a liquid, and cannot be "concentrated". The powdered alcohol was alcohol soaked into maltodextrin (or similar). By definition, it is less potent. In fact, if you make some and actually try to do things like spike a drink, or even just try to make normal drinks from it, it was flat out useless and worse than just sneaking in a flask to somewhere.

The media that IMO kinda "debunked" the whole thing was WIRED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XH_GD6TgTY&t=1s



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