For centuries ethyl alcohol has been ubiquitous amongst cultures. The various properties of alcoholic beverages have contributed to their longstanding existence, many of which stem from its psychoactive properties. The quantity of alcohol in a particular beverage becomes important in production, distribution and consumption of an alcoholic product. For these reasons, many different methods of measuring alcohol content have arisen. A novel procedure for alcohol quantitation is polar capillary gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS). It effectively and efficiently determines alcohol concentrations with little preparation in a wide variety of matrices. This experiment explores and evaluates the effectiveness of using polar capillary GC-MS in determining alcohol content in a selection of alcoholic beverage samples.