why acetic acid (SIRKA) is not intoxicating like wine or whisky ?

*Cause in the case of wine/whiskey, alcohol is generated during the fermenting process !!

While in sirka, the alcohol is absent !!~☺

no, the contents of acetic acid and whine/whiskey are not the same---

while the former is made of alcohol (ethyl alcohol)

[it is ethyl alcohol only that causes the intoxication--other alcohols are poisonous ],

acetic acid itself is an acid which though derived from the processing of ethyl alcohol, has properties different from the former.

Care is required during the preparation of whines etc. as exposing them to air(oxygen) during this stage spoils their taste...by converting them to Acetic acid indeed !!!!

All chemicals have specific mechanisms in which they react. These specific reactions have specific biochemical and physiological affects. The alcohol ethanol reacts in a specific way as does acetic acid. It is just so that ethanol with its -OH (hydroxyl group, see acetaldehyde below) acts to cause intoxication and acetic acids does not.

Acetic acid is the end result of certain chemical pathways via redox reactions. Ethanol is reduced from its form to that of acetic acid a non biologically reactive form of chemical (at least in its foodgrade concentration).

Oxidation

Ethanol can be oxidized to acetaldehyde {Causes the buzz we feel}, and further oxidized to acetic acid. In the human body, these oxidation reactions are catalyzed by enzymes. In the laboratory, aqueous solutions of strong oxidizing agents, such as chromic acid or potassium permanganate, oxidize ethanol to acetic acid, and it is difficult to stop the reaction at acetaldehyde at high yield. Ethanol can be oxidized to acetaldehyde, without over oxidation to acetic acid, by reacting it with pyridinium chromic chloride.[19]

The direct oxidation of ethanol to acetic acid using chromic acid is given below.

C2H5OH + 2[O] → CH3COOH + H2O

The oxidation product of ethanol, acetic acid, is spent as nutrient by the human body as acetyl CoA, where the acetyl group can be spent as energy or used for biosynthesis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh294/266-...

because it doesn't have alcohol in it.