Yes, more alcohol

Don't you just love the Jesuit ideal of an education in regards to educating the whole student. The way I take it is that we are taught a wide variety of things in and out of class. While these things include unusual religions from the far ends of the earth and random philosophies, they also include things like drinking and partying. Some students probably only have a basic knowledge of the intoxicating beverages they consume so often, apart from the "1 shot=1 12oz. Beer=1 glass of wine, and more than x amount of said beverages is considered binge drinking" printed on signs everywhere around campus. Well, there's more to it...

Alcohol is actually, according to Wikipedia.com, "any organic compound in which a hydroxyl group (-OH) is bound to a carbon atom, which is in turn is bound to other hydrogen and/or carbon atoms." However, when alcohol is referred to on Loyola's campus it is usually referring to ethanol alcohol (C2H5OH.) It is produced usually by fermentation "metabolizing carbohydrates" thanks again Wiki.com. Different types of beverages are produced by fermenting or distilling (separating liquids by their different boiling temperatures) different things.

Rum is the product of the fermentation process on molasses or sugar cane juice, whisky distilled from grain, vodka distilled from fermented grain, brandy fermented fruit juice, tequila distilled from the cactus-like agave plant, and cognac (Hennessey, Courvoisier etc.) is a very refined version of brandy. Those are just a few.

But wait, now the stats part, well kinda. You ever notice (80 Proof) written on your bottle of Absolut. This is a measurement of the amount of ethanol in the spirit. There is a very easy formula to figure the percentage of alcohol (ethanol) from the proof. Just divide the proof by 2. Yep, that's it. So an 80 proof liquor is 40% alcohol and a 190 Proof liquor is 95% alcohol. And yes...190 Proof Everclear or Diesel is as strong as it comes (except in laboratories) due to irrelevant scientific reasons.

So the next time you are at Tucks and you are enjoying a Red Bull and Vodka you can tell everyone that you know how vod