Is it OK to store alcohol outside?

Question

So i have a plastic bottle of Viking-fjord vodka/booze(?)

and I'm keeping it outside so my parents wont notice.

the temper is about 10-15 C, does the alcohol take any harm?

Answer 1

Let's say you are 21 and you want to store your booze outside? OK? As long as your bottles are sealed or the caps on real tight you are safe. At that temp that is even better. Any alcohol that is over 25* C and the alcohol will start to expand that is why you have to have the cap on tight.....

Answer 2

noppe go for it

Answer 3

HAHAHAHA

Probably it will make it lose its alcohol content.

Just wait till you are actually old enough to drink.

Answer 4

You should always store alcohol in a cool dry place, or at room temp that doesn't exceed past 80 degrees F.

And if you have to 'hide' it from your parents, may be it's not worth the risk eh? Anything you do that you feel as though you have to hide, is not really worth doing in the first place. But that's ok..you will live with the consequences of bad choices.  Be careful. Be safe.

Answer 5

That's completly fine way to store it, obviously just need the cap on so you don't get stuff from outside in the bottle.

Now, random person, it is true that water evaporates.  Unfortunately alcohol is also a liquid, and every liquid will evaporate.  It just has to have certain conditions.  Alcohol has a lower boiling point than water, so if anything will leave a bottle of vodka it will be the alcohol first!  This will happen rapidly at about 79C; I doubt theres any serious risk of having weak vodka with a cap on in 10-15C weather.

Also, why is everyone assuming that the poster is underage?  Americans don't like to use Centigrade, I don't think they're from the US.  Also, 15C = 59F and it's atleast in the 70s across all the US today.  It is late winter in Australia, and the UK and Canada could be having a cool day.  Perhaps, maybe, the poster's parents don't like alcohol, even though it may be legal.  For example, I'm 22 (I'm in MA) but my mother is against alcohol, so I'm not allowed to have any in the house, same policy for my father (he drinks a couple times a year). However, I am free to drink at friends houses and restaurants/bars.  If I were to keep any in the house, I would have to hide it much like the poster is forced to.

Answer 6

you can store it in the freezer  

Answer 7

I'm not going to address the issue of hiding the alcohol from your parents because I doubt anything I say will make a difference.

Since alcohol doesn't spoil at high temperatures or freeze at normal winter temperatures, I see no problem with storing it outside.  

Answer 8

Are you old enough to know how to understand what the label on the bottle of vodka indicates as being the alcohol content of the vodka, by percentage, and to consult an encyclopedia about the its properties concerning freezing (it is very low) and what effect it would have on the freezing point of the other percentage liquid (probably water) in the bottle.  It is only if the bottle was completely full and the outside temperture should get down to the freezing point of the MIXTURE of your booze (probably well below 0 deg. C. that the solid mass could expand enough to RUPTURE the plastic containeer.

But, say, what's a youngun like you wanting to get into the drinking booze 'on the sly' for?

Answer 9

it won't harm the alcohol, but the alcohol may harm you

remember, the buzz you get is from brain cells dying

everything in moderation

Answer 10

yeah its fine

Answer 11

Well its a drink, so it wont do any harm to be outside. My mum needed to have he vodca ice cold wen it was crimbo and she put it out. If ur underage then chuck it. if ur mum allows u to drink then keep it lol

Answer 12

if your not old enough to drink you shouldn't be drinknig vodka...  

Answer 13

Eww...

Maybe you should bury that nasty stuff and call it dead.

BUT if you like to drink it then....I guess it would be ok to store it outside. Maybe in a darker place.

Answer 14

plastic bottles can impart a taste and leech harful chemicals in extreme heat, but the temp has to be much higher than you mentioned. like 35 or higher for extended periods. cold does no harm and is the prefered method. vodka don't freeze but will gel at  or below 40 below.

Answer 15

yep

Answer 16

Nahhhw....alcohol doesn't evaporate, only water does=]

but it might be warm...

Answer 17

um.. i think you need to throw it away.. your a bad kid

Answer 18

yah it's totally fine bc my parents store beer in the cool out side so ur fine  

Answer 19

not unless the temp is hot. it has to be cool outside.

Answer 20

dont store it outside.

get a secret box and put the box in your closet inside a purse.