Is drinking beer the same as eating food?

[popecrisco]

well beer is a complex mixture of a number of ingredients that remain in the beverage while distilling removes almost everything from the alcohol baring a few other compounds that remain as impurities. Most alcohol gets flavoring from post distilling aging and conditioning.

now, a person can live on beer and water for about 6 weeks. Monks in Germany created doppelbock to drink when fasting during lent observations, but much more than that and you will be starving, literally.