If you’ve ever sauntered up to the bar and ordered a whiskey neat, you might have felt cool doing it. But... is that really the best way to drink whiskey? Let's ask science! Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg , Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr.Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06423-5 pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Guaiacol#section=3D-Conformer goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/A00302 www2.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/sb-ALS-alcohol-and-water.html pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/CP/c2cp40483d#!divAbstract flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13411-015-0040-2 Image Sources: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guaiacol_3D.png