No lie-oh!
Of course I have done this! In fact, sometimes I would do it just to get rid of the glycerine.
Satzenbrau, now that was an instant headache in a bottle! God only knows what they put in that. I could never drink more than two or three of those...
Later on I used to drink Beck's, but that was after I became an aviator. Nowadays it is back to being a pilot and drinking nice, warm mineral water, sigh... Reality checks are a bitch!