Wine is also 99% water...
Edit: Yes, you can tell I'm not a regular drinker
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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Easy. Turn that 99% into wine too.
It's wine all the way down.
It’s wine all the way down, but it’s never all wine!
Zeno's parasloshed.
Beat me to it...
Wine is at least 15% alcohol, so that limits it to being at most 85% water. But fear not, as even half a percent of your blood content being alcohol is considered deadly, so mere 1% conversion is enough.
Not to be pedantic, but the ABV of wine can range from like 5-20%. Still a lot more than 1%, but 15+% ABV wine seems pretty strong
How dare you be pedantic over my pedantry?!
But seriously, go ahead. I basically don't consume alcohol, so I'm not super familiar with the subject at hand. But in my experience I usually see labels stating about 12-15% ABV. And mentally I categorize alcohol into 3 groups 5%, 15% and 40%. As a non-drinking person, this seems to work well.
12-15% isn't "at least" 15%. "At least" would imply that the lowest it could be is 15%, when in reality wine is at most 15%.
Theoretically it could be higher but it would likely have to be fortified, as even the most obdurate yeasts would suffocate in their own waste before producing higher concentrations of alcohol.
You might find some liqueurs with 20-30%, but those typically contain some amount of spirits to get their ABV up that high.
The EC-118 yeast I use to make my wine has a tolerance threshold of 18% and there are a good number of wine yeasts with tolerances in the 16-18% range. There are even some specialty turbo yeasts that can tolerate as high as 18-20% apparently, although I haven’t had experience with them. If you want to get pedantic about it, I’d say wine is at most 20% ABV. Anything higher is either fortified or distilled.
That's interesting, it must be a recent thing with some sort of bioengineering because I'm pretty sure that didn't exist ten years ago
In my option, any wine above 14% starts to lose its balance and subtlety, but if someone's just drinking to get drunk then I guess a high ABV is more efficient than a well-rounded wine
I thought if it was low enough alcohol content (maybe less than 10%), then it's cider rather than wine
Still plenty to kill someone from the alcohol alone.
You’re drinking some strong wine there if it’s got at least 15% alcohol
Fun trick they do in Texas due to fucking weird alcohol laws....
Liquor can't be sold everywhere, even in wet counties/cities. Manufacturers make "liquor" products that are wine based and have just about 15% alcohol, the maximum legal amount allowed to be not called liquor. You can buy this at gas stations and non liquor stores.
More like 86%
I don't know about you, but a 1% ABV wine would be pointless. Might as well drink grape juice.
He's still replacing a significant amount of their body's water with alcohol. Definitely fatal.
85% water and 14% spicy water, checks out
Won't work in Scotland. If anything it will just sober them up.
He can also turn water into Bucky bru
I think that's not a PR-permissible combat power. Charles is trying to get people to accept mutants, "gruesome lethal force" is less than an optimal arsenal for that.
He doesn't have to transform ALL the water. Just half a percentage or so.
It would have been much more impressive to turn water into Gatorade, which didn't exist yet. They also didn't know what an alligator was yet.
They knew what crocodiles were, so they probably wouldn't have been terribly shocked.