How to distinguish real from fake alcohol

A place

No dodgy shops and stalls unimportant. Buy alcohol in commercial networks that monitor the reputation and carefully selected suppliers. Roughly speaking, if the supermarket shelves is expired goods, the alcohol there should be chosen with special captiousness.

Always when buying alcohol you need to issue a check, and ideally - ask for a passport, even if you have not look like a schoolboy.

Price

Very good thing cheap is not worth it. If you offer a seasoned French cognac for 800 rubles, then something is wrong. If you want to buy an expensive alcoholFirst look, how much it costs, compare prices on the Internet, do not run for a good price.

Forge very cheap alcohol brands neraskruchennyh uninteresting, most certainly he will initially be of poor quality. So take good drinks, checking authenticity.

Bottle

Branded spirits bottled in special bottles with unusual shape, edges on the neck, embossed lettering. If you want to buy a particular brand-name alcohol, try to find the manufacturer's website and evaluate than the bottle is unlike any other.

Pay attention to:

• Cover material. Of plastic, metal or cork, cap wrapped or not, smooth or embossed, flat or convex. Cover good alcohol does not scroll, does not flow. On the covers of vodka bottles should number at which the bottle can be checked for authenticity on the manufacturer's website.
• The shape of the neck. Long or short, with or without faces. Bottle with dispenser - a sign that it made in the factory, rather than underground.
• Bottle shape. Pay attention to the bends, shoulder bottles, bottom topography.
• Embossed lettering and images. On expensive alcohol often found inscriptions with the name of the drink, the symbols of the trading house, other symbols. On the fakes these inscriptions or not repeat at all, or not reproduce all or confuse the place of application.

Excise stamp

Excise stamp is printed on a special paper with colored fibers, all the numbers and codes in it clear, visible and legible. Brand must be attached absolutely straight.

Check excise stamps have organizations that have a license to trade in alcohol. For us there service Unified social portal alcohol market.

Type the characters from the tax stamps and check whether the product brand. The service works in a test mode, that is, apparently, not always match the reality of its data. However, we tested five bottles, produced and purchased in different places, and all of them have been tested.

Label

Label quality alcohol is on good paper, often with embossed or complex elements.

If you are looking for a particular brand, compare, in what order should keep the information on the label. On the company's products all the labels repeat pattern, and product names are accompanied by an icon of a registered trademark.

Be sure to specify the address of the manufacturer (legal and production space), the composition should be normative references.

The contents of the bottle

It may help if you buy alcohol in a bottle made of transparent glass, and you know what it looks like right drink.

• Brandy, if you turn the bottle, leaving oily streaks on the glass. They are called cognac legs.
• In the same way behaves good whiskey. We must remember that the whiskey - clear beverage, sediment and flakes should not be there.
• Vodka - only transparent, without sediment.

But the appearance of the beverage can be distinguished unless absolutely artisanal forgery.

Here we are just fakes, and sometimes even and a low-quality alcohol, such as wine made from a mixture of alcohol and colorants and flavorings. There will only read the label with the composition, the indication on the guests, which made alcohol. And your feelings. If you opened the bottle and you feel that something is wrong, do not drink up and do not check. It is better to lose money than health.

The most effective way to protect against the bad spirits

Able to forge everything up until the excise stamps. Therefore, the most effective way to protect against the bad spirits - the choice of place of purchase and alcohol, which you can check the manufacturer's website.

How to recognize methylated spirits

Nothing. Although there are recipes for the determination of methanol.

Lowering the heated copper wire in alcohol, for example. Methanol by reaction with copper allocate formaldehyde you feel pungent odor. Ethanol so itself does not lead. But ethanol also will smell, even if not so disgusting. There is another option with an alcohol ignition, flame detection and hue (a greenish methanol burns).

These methods work if you compare the two types of pure alcohol. A methanol can be added to the alcohol in various proportions, diluted and mixed with dyes, flavors and ethanol.

Symptoms of methanol poisoning

First methanol poisoning is different from alcohol poisoning: dizziness, nausea, headache. Then there are troubling signs:

• Pain throughout the body.
• Loss of vision.
• Dyspnea.
• Heart palpitations.

What to do to not be poisoned with methanol

1. Drink alcohol only from trusted sites and only quality.
2. Never get drunk to the point to miss the first signs of poisoning, that is, before losing ground under their feet, and nausea.
3. When symptoms of poisoning immediately call an ambulance and get to the doctors.
4. Before the arrival of doctors administer first aid for poisoning.

While conventional ethanol helps to slow down industrial alcohol poisoning, do not self-medicate with alcohol.