Vodka Soon Available in Pill Form

By John Farrier in Food & Drink, Health on Dec 1, 2009 at 12:13 pm


A researcher at a Russian university has developed a powdered form of alcohol that will soon make the consumption of vodka more convenient. From The Times of India:

Russian professor Evgeny Moskalev of Saint Petersburg Technological University has evolved a technique that allows turning alcohol into powder and packing it in pills. The new technique can solidify any kind of alcohol, including whisky, cognac, wine and beer. The new technique can solidify any kind of alcohol, including whisky, cognac, wine and beer.

“Dry” vodka can be wrapped in paper and carried around in a pocket or a bag. Vodka in form of a pill would come handy at parties when “consumers” would be able to calculate their exact required dosage.

Verily, we live in an age of medical wonders.

Link via Geekologie | Image: US Department of State (not the pills in question)


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  1. dutchboy
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Oh boy they have a winner with this one.

  2. vrtclsmile
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    And I understand that:

    “Dry” vodka can be wrapped in paper and carried around in a pocket or a bag. Vodka in form of a pill would come handy at parties when “consumers” would be able to calculate the exact required dosage.

  3. extramatic
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    Am I seeing double?

  4. CamilleR
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    Doris Day and Rock Hudson already came up with this. V-day is here!

  5. Absent
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    I thought powdered alcohol had already been used as a food additive in the commercial sector for years.

  6. Russell 'Bacon' Senior
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    It seems like this could lead more easily to alchoholic related deaths. It seems like this could lead more easily to alchoholic related deaths.

    Despite that I would love to be able to predict my buzz. Too many times i end up drinking more BECAUSE I am buzzed. Despite that I would love to be able to predict my buzz. Too many times i end up drinking more BECAUSE I am buzzed.

  7. Smarterthanyou
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 1:25 pm

    Wow! are they working on gasoline pills to?
    And how about water in pill form?
    And OIL! that would be so easy! Just drop a couple pills in the oil fill and be Done! Plus I'll bet it would be easy to get the old oil out too just pull the drain plug and the dust would pour out. No more messy spills!

    Morons

  8. Wile E Coyote, Super-Genius
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    Well, that was weird. Well, that was weird.

  9. Foreigner1
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 1:36 pm

    " "Dry” vodka can be wrapped in paper and carried around in a pocket or a bag."

    .....Ehhhhhhhhh..... So...? Isn't that done also with the wet type when in bottle........?

  10. John Farrier
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 1:37 pm

    The duplication is in the original text, but I've deleted it for clarity's sake.

  11. Gauldar
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    Excellent, I'll save these for my airplane trips when a toddler is screaming his head off, starting a chain reaction with all the others on the flight.

  12. christine
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    is this really true? I don't think so.

  13. dartef
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    I hope someone doesn't put one of those pills in my drink.

  14. Skipweasel
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    This strikes me as very dubious.

    It's unlikely that you can increase ethanol's density significantly by combining it with other things - even if you can it's not going to be by much. More likely it'll bulk it up considerably.

    So - a 35ml "single" measure of 40% vodka will have 14ml of ethanol in it. That's around three teaspoonfuls even if it's 1:1 bulk when "dried". That's a bulky pill.

  15. EDB
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 2:26 pm

    Maybe they can get Rock Hudson to market them and call the product VIPS. Sounds like bovine scattology to me.

  16. Gauldar
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    Hey man, got any whisky suppositories!?!? I'm FREAKING OUT MAN!

  17. csquared
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    the redundancy is killing me....

  18. Christophe
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    Wow, date rape made easy.

    And : what happen when you swallow them with alcohol?

  19. Edward
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    Bravo, Skipweasel! That is using your head.

    There are recipes all over the Internet for solid alcohol. Look for "Jello Shots"

  21. ByrdBrain
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    I wonder if this new technology works on any kind of alcohol. I didn't see anything in the artcle about that.

  22. rataplan
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    so i'm guessing you can still pass the breathalyzer after a few pills?

    don't see how this will become legal in a lot of countries.

  23. Daniel Kim
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 9:16 pm

    I'm afraid "Smarterthanyou" is correct. It has the sound of "gasoline pills" and other such scams. There is no way to make such a thing work. It reminds me of the idea that one can repeatedly use PKZip to compress a file until it is only one byte long.

    I am disappointed that the Times of India ran such a story.

  24. Jill
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    I think this is a hoax...Only two results in Google news: Both from less than reliable sources.

  25. misc
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    A working alcoholic's dream come true.

  26. deaddrift
    Dec 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 am

    Just so you know, this is total bullshit. Such a thing is NOT POSSIBLE.

  27. JH's corpse
    Dec 2nd, 2009 at 5:25 am

    The most common thing drinks are spiked with is more alcohol. Rapists can be way more subtle now! Thank you science! why do we need this?

  28. Skipweasel
    Dec 2nd, 2009 at 11:16 am

    JH's corpse. Wish I could remember where I saw it (New Scientist possibly) but read somewhere lately that there is very little actual hard chemical evidence of drink spiking happening at all.

  29. wiskysbetta
    Dec 3rd, 2009 at 3:06 am

    For me, this will solve all the sobriety issues i have been facing since my dad left me.

  30. cool games
    Dec 3rd, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    I prefer vodka from the bottle :-)

  31. From Japan
    Dec 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Powdered alcohol was also developed by a Japanese company more than 15 years ago. It was only on the market for a while. I think they had trouble with tax laws and other problems.

    Imagine dissolving powdered alcohol into a shot of whiskey!!

  32. Consumer
    Dec 3rd, 2009 at 7:57 pm

    Ouote: "Vodka in form of a pill would come handy at parties when “consumers” would be able to calculate their exact required dosage.

    Yeah, right! Pills in party environments are known for good calculability.

  33. rdizzle
    Dec 4th, 2009 at 9:48 am

    Things I see in the near future of dry alcohol:

    Certain people being drunk all the time.

    People being more drunk while partying.

    People getting drunk way too fast.

    More people getting laid.

    The price of real alcohol plumetting.

    No barf in bathrooms.

  34. That one person
    Dec 5th, 2009 at 10:58 am

    awww i thought you could get high AND drunk :(

  35. mawskrat
    Dec 5th, 2009 at 11:17 am

    I'll just stick with my rosie in a skirt

  36. Josh213
    Dec 5th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    Leave it up to a Russian to create vodka in pill form!! This has a few good uses that i can think of!!

  37. Beechfuzz
    Dec 8th, 2009 at 10:52 am

    "The new technique can solidify any kind of alcohol, including whisky, cognac, wine and beer. The new technique can solidify any kind of alcohol, including whisky, cognac, wine and beer."

    LOL, looks like the OP has already been using them!

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