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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more (hsph.harvard.edu)
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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

This is right. Alcohol is almost a flavor multiplier and also holds flavors that might be more volatile and disappear. That’s why if you were to completely remove the alcohol from a drink like gin or something it would taste wildly different and probably very flat even though the rest of the beverage is the same.