Congener (alcohol)

In the alcoholic beverages industry, congeners are substances, other than the desired type of alcohol, ethanol, produced during fermentation. These substances include small amounts of chemicals such as methanol and other alcohols (known as fusel alcohols), acetone, acetaldehyde, esters, tannins, and aldehydes (e.g. furfural). Congeners are responsible for most of the taste and aroma of distilled alcoholic beverages, and contribute to the taste of non-distilled drinks. It has been suggested that these substances contribute to the symptoms of a hangover. Congeners are also used by forensic toxicologists to determine what a person drank in a sub-discipline called alcohol congener analysis.

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Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which the hydroxyl functional group (–OH) is bound to a saturated carbon atom. The term alcohol originally referred to the primary alcohol ethanol (ethyl alcohol), the predominant alcohol in alcoholic beverages.

The suffix -ol appears in the IUPAC chemical name of all substances where the hydroxyl group is the functional group with the highest priority; in substances where a higher priority group is present the prefix hydroxy- will appear in the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) name. The suffix -ol in non-systematic names (such as paracetamol or cholesterol) also typically indicates that the substance includes a hydroxyl functional group and, so, can be termed an alcohol. But many substances, particularly sugars (examples glucose and sucrose) contain hydroxyl functional groups without using the suffix. An important class of alcohols, of which methanol and ethanol are the simplest members is the saturated straight chain alcohols, the general formula for which is C_nH_2n+1OH.

Alcohol (CSS song)

"Alcohol" is a single by Brazilian band CSS from their first album Cansei de Ser Sexy.

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¹ A cover song of Grizzly Bear. CSS version, together with Atlas Sound version, was included on Grizzly Bear's Friend EP.

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Directed by Jared Eberhardt, shows CSS band as bunnies getting drunk and playing the song.

The music video was chosen from a video contest requested by the band themselves on QOOB, the commissioning was open between February 15, 2007 (2007-02-15) and April 16, 2007 (2007-04-16). There were 66 participants in the contest; two of them were winners: "Alcohol" My Drinking Bunnies by Jared Eberhardt and "Alcohol" by SugoDesign.TV.

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Alcohol (Barenaked Ladies song)

"Alcohol" is a song by the Alternative rock group Barenaked Ladies released as the last single and sixth track on their 1998 album Stunt. Although it did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Singles Chart, it received some airplay on the US Modern Rock Tracks charts, peaking at #33 on the chart. The song looks at alcohol abuse, and moderation, using a sarcastic undertone. As part of the band's tradition involving one song per album, "Alcohol" was recorded naked.

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