Your Old Fashioned won’t be the same in Wisconsin: Here’s why Ethanol (not the kind you get at the gas pump) can taste bitter ...

Most alcohols are toxic, but some animals (including us humans) are able to metabolize low doses of ethanol, a molecule produced by yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as it digests plant materials.

ethanol or propanol, are added to water, they mix easily to produce a solution. However, the solubility decreases as the length of the alcohol molecule gets longer, so butanol is less soluble than ...

Since the C=O came from the parent acid, there were four carbon atoms in the acid molecule (butanoic acid) and two carbon atoms in the parent alcohol (ethanol). This ester is called ethyl butanoate.