Methanol is the one that gets you blind. Everclear is just high on ethanol. Perfectly safe to drink straight. (Well, as "perfectly safe" as any alcohol intended for drinking).
@@poika22 “Perfectly safe” as in shooting your liver 24 times with a 7.62 by 39 AKM and then ripping it out and curb stomping it until everything seeps into the cracks of the liver stained concrete. All in all, 10/10 would drink again
The "best" part of the Everclear binge is finding out what you did under its spell......hilarity and hi jinx ensue. I am lucky that we did not have cellphones/film cameras when we were drinking Everclear.😜😉😀
My Grandpa was a devout Baptist, no cards, no dancing, ect. He was always lecturing me about not drinking. One day I found a bottle of Everclear in the garage and I called him out on it, he told me he used it as an engine degreaser. lol
Its called fuel spirit. I always use drinking grade spirit vs denatured alcohol when doing stuff like making a shellac cut because I dont want to deal with adulterants put in the denatured stuff. I watched a guy doing a french polish on high end acoustic guitars and he pulled out a bottle of booze. I thought I was the only one. Then He mentioned some luthiers will go as far as distilling their own alcohol to get their solvent. So yeah its a solvent. It has alot of applications. Drinking IMO is not one of them. As far as engine cleaning I go straight gas and just sit there and huff the fumes because its a cheaper solvent at $3 a gallon. Prob. not smart but affordable. You thought you where going to waltz right into the comment box and do a lil fortnite zoomie dab on your poor old grandpa. But its obvious your grandpa touches the drink like you touch tools: IE you never touched a tool in your life.
Guys at the liquor store think I’m a raging alcoholic but really this stuff is insanely versatile. Drinking, cleaning, preserving, recipes,all sorts of stuff you can do with it
@@lgscteamI've done the math and it's the cheapest alcohol you can buy. You have to measure the actual amount of alcohol you're getting. Whiskey and Vodka are like 60 percent water.
@lgscteam 1.75l of everclear costs $50. Cut it down to 40%, netting you 3.5l. That's the equivalent of paying $10 and some change for a fifth *and* there's no added sugar or anything. It's just a neutral spirit. It's literally the perfect mixer.
Had a friend who would drink Everclear until he passed out. He was trying to escape trauma he suffered while serving in Vietnam in the US Marine Corps. He came back to the States mentally fucked up, and sadly, he took his own life on my dad's birthday in 1995.
We did shots of this during my college years. It started at 80 proof vodka/whiskey, turned into 151 Bacardi rum. And then we found Everclear. Not saying it was smart, but it became a tradition.
Dang. I scrolled down expecting to see that you had at least a few hundred thousand subs... But apparently I'm number 48, haha. Stick to this editing style, dude. It's absolutely phenomenal and you'll grow like crazy. I barely drink and you still kept me 100% engaged the whole time!
It can also be used in cooking! Many years ago I hosted a dinner party. For dessert I made banana's foster parfaits in a large wine glass. As part of the presentation, I put a strawberry on top, a sugar cube in the strawberry, and then put just a little bit of Everclear on the sugar cube then lit the cube on fire. It ended up being fantastic, would definitely recommend looking into it for uses in the kitchen.
The story of the creation of the 94,5% evergreen reminded me of something in my country. Here in denmark, you can buy alcohol at 16, but you have to be 18 to buy alcohol 16,5% or over. There's these fruit flavored shots that used to be around 25% alcohol which are very popular among young people. So much so that a new version was created at exactly 16,4% alcohol so the younger people could legally buy it.
And people think vapes were the first drug market to target children. Alcohol will always be very dangerous but society loves it too much to get rid of
Man I was on a tab of acid and my buddy was like “the everclear, we must each take a shot straight” it ended up being two. Strangely I wasn’t very drunk, considering acid makes it hard for me to get drunk that’s reasonable but still. That taste man, never forget it
I had a 90% illegal black absinthe in school at around the age of 15 and drank some out of the bottle in class and same as you I can still feel the burn 10 years later lmao
My grandma is making "Nalewki" with 96% alcohol we call "Spirytus" in Poland. She stuffs a bunch of the green walnut peels and dried fruits into a bottle and tops it off with the alcohol. After it stands in the cellar for a couple months, it turns into a fantastic medicine for cold and breathing problems. When I was a kid she used to rub it on my chest and mix in a teaspoon of it onto my tea when I was sick. I don't know what's the science behind it, but it worked better than anything my dad could get at a pharmacy... Oh, and my grandpa makes "Nalewki" too, but for a bit different reasons ;)
My buddy’s mom slipped us a shot of spirytus or something was 96%. I thought I was just being a puss until the 300lb guy ran to the garbage to spit his shot out lol
@@pope88fbnah, you don't understand the science. When putting that little alkohol in tea its almost certainly evaporated by the time its cold enough that a child drinks it. It worked better than the pharmacy stuff because the herbs and a little of the fumes help clear up sinuses and well, placebo, because grandma did it.
I've had one mixed drink in my life. It was made with everclear... by an extreme alcoholic. I was already drunk, and when he brought me a banana milkshake with everclear in it and insisted it was awesome, my drunk mind believed him. Actually, it was delicious, and i drank the whole thing, no upset stomach or throwing up, but it was definitely a stiff drink, i was absolutely hammered after drinking it.
@kevinreyimperial722 No, shortly after the party was busted up by the cops. The owner of the house received over 20 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and the same number of kids were written tickets... I received no ticket even though I was 16 at the time, I even managed to keep my beer from being poured out. After the cops left, I finished my beer and walked home.
The *high-alcohol* stuff makes the *greatest Bloody Mary's* and *Screwdrivers* that you have ever tasted. Just remember that any drink that you make will be inherently a *double.*
@@SlightlyCultured Red solo cup. Three shots of Everclear. Pour medium pulp OJ up to the lowest line toward the top, slow pour grapefruit juice to get it to the next line, then add enough ice cubes to get it to the the next line. Do not stir as you'll aerate the mixture and you don't want that. The strong bitter taste of the grapefruit at first will prepare you for the sweet and spicy OJ that follows. It's surprisingly smooth if you use cold juices with warm alcohol and by the time the ice melts towards the end of the drink it tastes like a fruity vodka. It's one of those drinks that lies to you and it's easy to forget what you're really drinking. I got 10 people completely wrecked with this concoction one time, not counting the poor soul who was fooled by the drinks smoothness and decided to pour his own, which was essentially half a solo cup of Everclear and half OJ... We told him he was being fucking stupid but he needed to see the blood in his vomit the next morning to understand for himself I guess! He's fine btw, so it's okay to laugh. HAHAHAHAHAH. Good drink if you keep your wits about you. I called it The Nail in the Coffin.
“Please, please, please, do not drink Everclear straight” Too late. Somebody gave me two shots of the stuff at a graduation party and I was dying- on top of jell o shots, beer, and some other fun stuff.
Oh bro someone handed me the wrong bottle on accident, to chug, i ended up chugging a quarter of the bottle, it was my 5th time drinking i didnt wanna be a pussy so i was like ill tough it out. Pain. Pain is all i feel. Needles going down my throat
@@noname-zn1pt My friend turned to me like 20 minutes after the 2nd shot and in a raspy voice he was like: "are you still feeling a burn in the back of your throat too?" *_coughs_* 😂 Immediately I go: "Dude I was about to ask you the same fucking thing!"
@@noname-zn1pt you should only drink high alcohol percentage drinks when your mouth is filled with saliva otherwise you increase the change of getting throat cancer
Back in college I played beer pong with straight Everclear... All I can remember is waking up in the ER with the DR saying I was in a coma for the last 12hours, and I had a 96% chance I wouldn't come out of it. I forget how many times I was over the alcohol limit. Needless to say I never drank that crap again.
A story to remember. Alcohol is one of the few mean poisons that by itself is not as toxic as what your body makes of it (acetaldehyde). This leads to the problem that you can ingest more than the lethal dose without noticing. Most food poisons will make you pass out as you reach lethal levels.
This would be believable if you didnt throw out that 96% bs😂😂 doctors dont tell your that even if they actually had an accurate way to measure that, thats movie shit
Guy I knew used Everclear to make this apple cinnamon moonshine, absolutely delicious. So good it was a little misleading in how strong it was but damn it was good.
I don’t add any water, just leave it at full proof after straining, it means you don’t have to worry about refrigeration or anything, it will keep forever at the high proof. You can always just add soda water to the drink. Use a coffee filter or bag to strain it better if you want a less cloudy result.
In theory if you diluted everclear by a ratio of 1 liter everclear to 1.2 litres of water you should get 39.5% alcohol, about the same as standard vodka.
Fun fact: Everclear has so much ethanol that if you put it in your car it can run with no problem and also with a small chance to increase power (small difference)
"Pls do not drink Everclear directly..." Somewhere in a black room the Cold Ones bois casually take a shot on some undiluted 96% Beltion after they take a shot on a diluted one
I tried mixing Everclear with Hawaiian Punch. Never caught so much as a buzz. That was because as soon as it hit my stomach, it felt like Mike Tyson hit me right in the gut with a haymaker. Took the partying spirit right out of me. Haven't touched it since.
I have drank it straight. I was piss drunk already and managed three shots of it in one night. I projectile vomited on the third. It tastes like pain, nothing more. My face still involuntarily scrunches up in disgust when I think back on the memory. I also learned that night that if you leave the bottle open it will evaporate at room temperature.
I drank some 90% thing once. Some traditional italian drink. What I remeber about is that it felt like it didnt even reafh my stomach and it was evaporating inside my throat. Even on the tongue it felt more like gas fumes than a liquid
@@stannicolae4623 i’m italian and the liquor you might be talking of could be ‘Fuoco dell’Etna’ which means ‘fire of the Etna’, a volcano in Sicily, so that would match your description perfectly
Take your favorite hard candies, I suggest ones with chocolate and/or caramel put them in a jar cover with Everclear, seal it and let it sit for a year or two, the candy will disolve into a syrup thats still very strong and a great additive on ice-cream or to just get drunk fast on something that tastes great. Ive also done this with lemons and sugar or cherries and it was awesome both times.
Since no one explained what an azeotrope is, I'll do it: An azeotrope basically means a mixture of two liquids that boils off at a specific concentration. For ethanol+water that is a 95.58% ethanol concentration. This means if you distill off ethanol out of a solution in water you only can only get 95.58% ethanol. If you want any higher concentration you either have to use something like toluene (which is toxic) to distill off the rest of the water in another azeotrope, or use some drying agents like Sodium Sulfate which is probably too much of a hassle to get in food grade and kind of time intensive if you want to get a product out fast.
@@lpjust6 the 95.58% figure quotes is by mass. By volume you can achieve about 97%. The azeotrope can also be moved by changing the pressure, allowing higher concentrations.
In Poland we would add sugar instead of alcohol to extract juice from berries during these two days. Then we would add spirytus (95-96% abv) which is practically the same as Everclear and wait for at least few weeks. The final product should have around 50-70 % abv and we call it "nalewka".
I had a friend a few years back during high school who’s choice of alcohol was straight everclear. He was always barefoot, always disappearing or laying on the floor lmao. I barely dipped my tongue into a cap of it once and I felt like SpongeBob when he tried Gary’s food. Idk how he did it all those times, but damn!
I had a couple of shots of medicine level-alcohol, which is 98% (196 proof). It's easy to drink, it is warming and cooling at the same time. The trick is not to breathe in and especially not through the nose when you drink it.
I once took 3 shots of Everclear in my junior year of college. Most of my friends had already turned 21 but I was still many months away from that point. They left some drinks in our dorm room. I found the Everclear, took 3 shots in succession and then quickly passed out. Hours later my friends found me unconscious, managed to wake me up and scolded me something harsh afterwards. I’ve never drank Everclear since
All of these wild stories about drinking , throwing up, or passing out on Everclear and all I remember was Everclear poured into a half empty jug of juice being my Friday night goto mix in college. No problems.
In the Army we made a "Death Mix" using a fifth of everclear, a 20 oz bottle of Gatorade and a can of red bull. Those were some best nights I don't fully remember
If you think dabs are hardcore then I shouldn't try RSO, basically pure thc, they also have little bottles that have more thc in them then like 10 grams of 80 to 90%. Highest % of wax I've ever smoked was probably 98%
Parts of the US you can get that 95% Polish spirit, parts of it you can't. It's readily available around where I live, though I live in a town where the school district offers official communications in Polish so that's kinda to be expected.
Chemist here: an azeotrope is a mixture of substances with a lower boiling point than either of its components on their own. With ethanol and water, this occurs around 95%. This means if you attempt to distill it, what you're boiling off is 95% alcohol and 5% water, therefore not changing the alcohol content, because this mixture has a lower boiling point than pure alcohol.
I started drinking heavily after I got out of the army. Ever clear was always my go-to because it’s cost-effective. The man at the liquor store once finally asked “what do you mix with this?” I replied “Just ice and water” and you should’ve seen the look on his face then he said “that’s a good way to burn up your intestines!” He wasn’t wrong, I have extremely painful peptic ulcers now. So if you’re gonna consume it, be smart. Don’t be a jack ass like me and destroy your body!
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If you make pies from scratch, then you need a couple bottles of this in your pantry like I have. Completely dissolve your salt in half the water called for in your dough recipe, replace the other half with Everclear, and then place the combined liquid in the freezer until ice cold. The alcohol prevents the liquid from becoming solid, the salt is entirely dissolved in liquid so it gets evenly distributed, the liquid is as cold as ice to depress gluten production in the dough, and the alcohol mostly evaporates during the bake -- especially when blind-baking. This gives you a dough that is pliable and workable before baking, but bakes up flakier and more tender due to less water interacting with the proteins in the dough.
Chemist here: An azeotrope is a solution (mixture) of two or more pure compounds (chemicals), in our case water and ethanol. In such a ratio that its composition can no longer be changed by simple distillation, because if you boil it, the vapors have the same composition as the liquid mixture you are trying to separate. The highest concentration of ethanol-water solution that can be achieved by normal distillation is 95.5% ethanol and 4.5% water. There are "tricks" to remove the remaining water, but basically it is quite difficult to get 100% pure ethanol as it pulls water out of the air as much as possible. There are technical ways to achieve at least 99.7% pure ethanol. But only with considerable technical effort.
@@superslash7254 yes because there is no such thing as actually 100% pure ethanol. You can only archive that within a sealed system without air (moisture) in it.
@@an0nim11 no, the dissolved sugars prevent it. However, it does evaporate very quickly to the point that taking a small shot is practically impossible because by the time you put it in your mouth half of it has already evaporated and the other half evaporates as soon as it touches your mouth due to body temperature.
I use Everclear to fortify my dessert honey mead. Brings the ABV of the mead from 15% to 21%, past the alcohol threshold where yeast can ferment the added sugar. Port is also made this way, but they use Brandy, which I think works great for wines but not so much for honey mead.
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Going to college in western Ohio (where Everclear couldn’t be purchased), people would make runs over to Indiana to buy it. Some of our terrible decisions were making Jell-O shots out of Everclear (sometimes in small bowls instead of shot glasses). I also recall the last week when many had already completed our finals, someone still had the remaining portion of a handle (1.75L) of Everclear in their dorm room and their parents were coming to pick them up. Several of us were doing shots of Everclear to help dispose of the bottle. I remember doing 4 shots. Many of us were ‘napping’ mid afternoon.
I remember drinking some straight EC in HS to show the sort of 'bad kids' I was tough in some regard. Cool thing about it was that there was no hangover. Drunk af one second and bam, on the way home, it suddenly wears off and everything is feeling normal again. Went home, said hi to my parents, hit the Playstation like nothing even happened.
That's exactly the thing with alcohol, it's not the alcohol ITSELF that gets you drunk, it's when plant sugars react with the alcohol that it makes you drunk. So that's not very surprising, but try mixing it with something really sugary and i promise you it'll be hard not to blackout.
Twice i finished a bottle. One time i passed out for two days and woke up in hospital with failing kidneys, the other time i passed out in my bed and woke up fine
While in the USAF back in the 70s our Everclear parties began on Friday night and with a new trash can. Cover charge was fruit while the Everclear was arranged. Being stationed outside of Rapid City, SD we usually had the party in the badlands or in the Black hills. This was necessary because after a couple of times putting the word out we learned no one's house/apt had enough room. Like I said the party started Friday night but for those of us that had to report in on Monday, Sunday was time to go back. Of course there was usually leftover joy juice that there were some slow to go well into the week. Also someone always seemed to be coming back off leave and show up with a pocket full of hometown flavor to share.
I work in a liqueur plant and had the opportunity to buy 97,6vol% pure ethanol. Being cocky, and having tried it already, I invited a friend to some 4cl shots of it. He fell asleep on the spot. I was so drunk that, later on, I got a wheelbarrow to bring him home. Thank heavens, there was still a sober driver in our group to bring him home. Incredible how all our bodies react completely different to get the poison out of the system.
Once the state run liqour stores in Washington lost their monopoly. Everclear has been legal in Washington State. In the past the state run liqour stores refused to sell it. Now you can buy it at Safeway.
I'm from Germany and when me and my friend wanted to go to Sweden on vacation we looked for the strongest and purest alcohol that we could find at the supermarket to take it with us because alcohol is very expensive and difficult to get in Sweden. We found something called Spyritus 95 in the supermarket and it actually also has 95% alcohol. This way we could carry a lot of alcohol in a very efficient way to Sweden. In Swede we always mixed it with water and syrup to drink it. It tasted like ass but it did the job and we got very drunk. Best trip to Sweden ever.
Friend of mine who is a big guy went through a time where he drank a lot. His tolerance combined with his build lead him to doing shots of this stuff straight because it was the most economical way for him to get drunk lol
Dude straight shots are so terrible. It sucks the moisture from your throat and gives you this terrible dry gagging. It's been 10 years since I even did shots with buddies in college but I still distinctly remember how brutal it was. i hope he's at least chasing it.
In Poland we have Spiritus which also ranges from 95% or 96% (It is widely considered to be the highest commercial alcohol product sold as a beverage). We normally use it for a beverage called nalewka (most similarly to a sweetened tincture). My grandfather would but barriers, lemon, honey, and a few herbs, then age it for months. It was like an alcoholic tea. My dad had his own spin with nuts. Everclear or any really high abv vodkas are like an empty canvas.
I think the strongest alcohol that I've ever drank straight was some type of spiced rum that was like 50 or 55% abv. This was back when I was really drinking heavily like in 2008 and 2009. I haven't drank anything alcohol in the past several years though. This was during a time when Four Lokos, Joose, and Tilt all had caffeine in then mixed with 12% alcohol.
@@user-ed5bd5xp1x it don't seem that long ago since I turned 17, but that was on May 11th, 2001. However I remember the first time I drank alcohol like wine I remember was on Thanksgiving and my mom gave us a glass of wine. This was when I was 10 years old in 1994. I think the wine was like Merlot or Cabernet.
@Logan Marquez 24 to 25 years old I remember was when I first tried four loko which was in early 2009. Before that, I do remember trying Sparks a few times in 2006 and 2007. This was when all those alcoholic drinks had caffeine in them.
I'm Polish and we call it "Spirytus" here, my grandpa used to mix it with onions and herbs and then proceeded to drink it with a spoon, many times he let me try it, I was only 6 back then lol
@@Galvatron102 Honestly that was so long ago that I forgot what the taste is like, but I assume it's ok given the fact that my 'pa was making it sometimes
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Azeotrope doesn’t make it undrinkable. An azeotrope is just 2 liquids that are similar enough in boiling point that it becomes impractical to separate any further. Any more alcohol and it would need to be dried chemically which makes anhydrous ethanol which is toxic. Tldr: azeotrope means too hard to separate and still be able to drink
The bums in my town would buy the boot mickeys and soak them in bread and get fucked up. Their favourite spot was behind my old high school in a ditch called “Lysol Creek” lol
In high school, we made PJ (everclear with fruit juices and fresh fruit). The longer you wait the better it gets (we didn’t have much patience back then (usually 12 hours)).
I made the mistake of drinking Everclear straight in college. I also used it to make Green Dragon (weed tincture), which is a very interesting concoction all by itself. Being that THC is fat and alcohol soluble but most other drinks are WATER and alcohol soluble, whenever you make a mixed drink with the Green Dragom, the THC precipitates into a cloudy mixture on account of its lack of water solubility!!! Two DUIs, years of addiction to other various "harder" substances, I am one year clean 😎 My first drink was whiskey st the age of 13 and it was love at first sight... I was like now I can be normal
It is a food additive, but also great for sweetening smoking pipes. Fill the bowl with kosher salt, drop in a few drops of everclear, and it will leach out the bitter oils that have soaked into your pipe. I have a bottle with my smoking pipes for that purpose.
I remember at a party we took 2 bottles of everclear, several vodkas, and literal gallons of Hawaiin punch and chopped fruit and filled a (Cleaned) bathtub up with this jungle juice for roughly 90 people. I believe at least half of them crashed on the floor due to being too trashed. One of the best parties I've been too
0:34 you can actually have 100%, or something like 99+ by drying it with chemicals for example. But yes you can drink 95+ alcohol, just means that the ethanol in the bottle can't be simply purified by distillation because the boiling point of this mixture in those concentration is actually lower than the boiling point of ethanol, so the concentration of ethanol in the vapour and in the liquid will be ~ the same.
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When Estonia was independent between the two world wars, the Estonian Liquor Monopoly marketed 98 per cent alcohol distilled from potatoes (196 proof in US terminology). It was the strongest alcohol sold in shops for drinking.
Hitting its azeotrope wouldn't make it undrinkable, it's just the temperature where distilling it further would remove too much alcohol. Basically, 95% is the highest abv you can have because you can't extract any more water from it without it losing enough alcohol such that the 95% volume% ratio of ethanol to water is preserved
@@seemslegit6203 you can normally get up to 96%, but 0.4% will disappear over time. In PL we have 96% spiritus in almost every shop, we use it to make tinctures, liqueurs and other high voltage alcohols.
I once made an Applejack that came out to 99% ABV. This is only accomplished by freeze distillation, and takes days and days to do. The not-booze part wasn't water. It was apple flavoring. No water. Only booze. That stuff smelled like floor cleaner, tasted like being beaten to death with a flaming apple, and one shot had me buzzed.
Yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about. Freezing won't even get you close to 50% let alone 99. Distillation can only get to 95% molecular sieves is how you get to 100%. Why do people lie so blaintantly? I bet you've been cow tipping aswell huh?
Back in college, on of my last memories from a party was me chugging what I thought was the smallest bit of everclear at the bottom of the bottle. All I remember is tilting it, then I woke up the next day half dead 🤢
I found it useful to erase sharpie-on-CDr mistakes as well as an instant hand cleaner with a paper towel. In Oregon where the liquor stores are state controlled, apparently one of the rules is they have to keep it under the counter and only dispensed when asked for.
Ya know I use everclear as a solvent. The azeotrope oversimplified means at a certain point alcohol and water will come over with more and more with less alcohol when you try to push past 95%. So it will actually dilute the 95% I use molecular sieves to trap the water and I make my everclear 100% or 200 proof. I think it would just strip water out of your throat mouth and stomach. You would think that the extra 5% alcohol wouldn't make it stink too much worse but it makes a decent difference. I'll just keep using it as a solvent but once in awhile I think boy one shot would lay someone out 😂😂 Great video BTW I don't drink but you really got me wanting to try one of the drinks youve made!
Came here for the Polish comments and I'm not disappointed. Like, yeah, we can drink it over here and so we do sometimes. Undiluted. It is a tricky pony though. You either breath yer air out of the lungs and then drink it, or you take a deep breath, drink, then breath out the air. This method won't burn yer lungs with the ethanol fumes. This part you have missed, laddie :). Anyroad, thanks for posting.
GET SOME EVERCLEAR FOR YOUR FINE SELF: drizly.sjv.io/EaZ6EW Hey friends! I just wanted to say that, about a day after I posted this, I learned that there is a stronger alcohol clocking in at 96%. So yeah, ya'll can stop commenting that, I am aware lmaooo. I've also become aware that my info on what states it's banned in might be outdated. Primarily in PA, MA, and WA. Lastly, if you plan on making the black berry sage infusion, definitely go lighter on the sage. After drinking it more after filming, the sage was too much and took over. Thanks for watching! P.S. Super excited you guys enjoy this video, it makes me super happy to see all the super kind comments and it encourages me to make more videos. Just wanted to say thank you thank you thank you ❤
Eesti Piiritus, or Estonian rectified spirits still probably holds the stronges alcohol record. According to legend it was 98% pure, but most likely that was just thelimitation of the measuring tools used and it did not exceed 97.2% ABV.
As I got a M. Sc. in chemistry I distilled all my old spirits at home and by some additional ingredients (aka edible/food grade chemicals) I was able to 'dry'/purify it even further than 95%. The feeling of drinking tiny table spoon amounts is astonishing! Of course with more than 95% it will absorb water from atmospheric humidity so it's unstable.
I have been drinking grain alcohol, Everclear and or Graves straight for years, since 1996. You can not drink alot, but you can. If you shoot it, 2 shots are enough for a night, please don't drive or operate any machinery. I use to mix equal parts Everclear and clear overproof jamaican rum and vanilla beans. Its a Olde Fashion Mike Tyson punch to the nose of a drink
I hated drinking(the taste) when sober in college but I liked to drink socially. My solution was a shot of everclear folled by a can of my favored chaser soda, wait 20 minutes then repeat as necessary. 4-5 shots usually did the trick to get a buzz.
Used to mix this in Icees back in the 90's during frat parties. Last time I drank it I woke up under a foosball table half blind, with no idea what had happened over the previous 48 hours. That was it for me.
I had a shot of this once. Besides the feeling (which I could best describe as drinking liquid pain), it felt like I drank 4 shots at once instead of the just one. Crazy stuff
Hahah.....the Classic ...Everclear.....we used to drink that stuff when we were young! Good times.......no memory at all of those times, but good times....😂😂
**Straight up drinks Everclear**
Vision after 1 minute: Neverclear.
*Drinks straight everclear* Good god i'm dying.
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Methanol is the one that gets you blind. Everclear is just high on ethanol. Perfectly safe to drink straight. (Well, as "perfectly safe" as any alcohol intended for drinking).
@@poika22 “Perfectly safe” as in shooting your liver 24 times with a 7.62 by 39 AKM and then ripping it out and curb stomping it until everything seeps into the cracks of the liver stained concrete.
All in all, 10/10 would drink again
Everclear, for when drowning the sorrows away isn’t enough so you waterboard them instead
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The "best" part of the Everclear binge is finding out what you did under its spell......hilarity and hi jinx ensue.
I am lucky that we did not have cellphones/film cameras when we were drinking Everclear.😜😉😀
@@remlatzargonix1329 friend of mine nearly got sent to jail while drinking everclear, doesn't remember a single moment lmao
Hey it works
@@SlightlyCultured so you watch twitch?? 😂
My Grandpa was a devout Baptist, no cards, no dancing, ect. He was always lecturing me about not drinking. One day I found a bottle of Everclear in the garage and I called him out on it, he told me he used it as an engine degreaser. lol
You sure he was degreasing engines? 😂
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@@jasonrodgers9063 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
Its called fuel spirit. I always use drinking grade spirit vs denatured alcohol when doing stuff like making a shellac cut because I dont want to deal with adulterants put in the denatured stuff. I watched a guy doing a french polish on high end acoustic guitars and he pulled out a bottle of booze. I thought I was the only one. Then He mentioned some luthiers will go as far as distilling their own alcohol to get their solvent. So yeah its a solvent. It has alot of applications. Drinking IMO is not one of them. As far as engine cleaning I go straight gas and just sit there and huff the fumes because its a cheaper solvent at $3 a gallon. Prob. not smart but affordable. You thought you where going to waltz right into the comment box and do a lil fortnite zoomie dab on your poor old grandpa. But its obvious your grandpa touches the drink like you touch tools: IE you never touched a tool in your life.
I ran a bottle of Everclear in my 1966 fairlane while trying to make it to a gas station. It worked. It saved my ass.
Hell yhea
Why only ass? What happened to the rest of the body?
That's some expensive fuel!
I call bullshit...
Everclear should be classified as a Mode of Transportation cause when you drink it your gonna black out and be in either Detroit or Florida
basically a 'fast travel' method that works in real life👍
In slovakia there is drink called tatra tea that is sometimes just called teleportation juice
Or heaven you know
I'm not sure which one of those is worse is the sad part.
@@hxdzen I woke up and took an arrow to the knee
Guys at the liquor store think I’m a raging alcoholic but really this stuff is insanely versatile. Drinking, cleaning, preserving, recipes,all sorts of stuff you can do with it
And extract cannabis stems water distiller it to reuse it
For that price just buy something else
Okay, maybe you're not "raging".
@@lgscteamI've done the math and it's the cheapest alcohol you can buy. You have to measure the actual amount of alcohol you're getting. Whiskey and Vodka are like 60 percent water.
@lgscteam 1.75l of everclear costs $50. Cut it down to 40%, netting you 3.5l. That's the equivalent of paying $10 and some change for a fifth *and* there's no added sugar or anything. It's just a neutral spirit. It's literally the perfect mixer.
If it’s banned in Florida then you know it’s serious
Dos this ban not included military base stores bc I can definitely buy it in Florida
If you need to ban it in Florida, you know Florida is serious
@@legion4842 He says in the video that they made a 94.5% ABV version for specifically the states that banned the 95% ABV version
@@raptorjesus3894 95%*
@@h0r1z0nz7 Yeah that was a typo.
Had a friend who would drink Everclear until he passed out. He was trying to escape trauma he suffered while serving in Vietnam in the US Marine Corps. He came back to the States mentally fucked up, and sadly, he took his own life on my dad's birthday in 1995.
Wow…
Your dad was born in 95? 😱
My dad's birthday is November 4, 1952. Sorry for the confusion.
That's so sad I'm so sorry
We did shots of this during my college years. It started at 80 proof vodka/whiskey, turned into 151 Bacardi rum. And then we found Everclear. Not saying it was smart, but it became a tradition.
One of the few times my cowardice probably saved me some brain cells in college was I could never graduate from Bacardi
@@jakirakumahata5701cowards typically survive in evolutionary times
Dang. I scrolled down expecting to see that you had at least a few hundred thousand subs... But apparently I'm number 48, haha. Stick to this editing style, dude. It's absolutely phenomenal and you'll grow like crazy. I barely drink and you still kept me 100% engaged the whole time!
Absolutely appreciate seeing comments like this Steven! Thanks so much!
I had to check cuz I didnt believe you but damn you're right. Well the algorithm is working it looks like time to watch the count shoot up lol
@@NurseBadTouch Lets hope so!
1 month later and he's nearing 1,000. Awesome to see that growth.
I agree I didn’t look at his sub count until I saw your comment… GREAT VID!!
“Everclear is not meant to be drank straight.”
I wish someone told me that before I drank Everclear straight on a 15 mile hike.
Did you make it back alive? 😁
@@musicandlyricslove obviously yes?
@@Dapstart maybe he was still on the hike when he wrote that comment
@@classicpinball9873 I would like to have a funny friend like you
Why would you drink any booze on a hike?
It can also be used in cooking! Many years ago I hosted a dinner party. For dessert I made banana's foster parfaits in a large wine glass.
As part of the presentation, I put a strawberry on top, a sugar cube in the strawberry, and then put just a little bit of Everclear on the sugar cube then lit the cube on fire.
It ended up being fantastic, would definitely recommend looking into it for uses in the kitchen.
The story of the creation of the 94,5% evergreen reminded me of something in my country. Here in denmark, you can buy alcohol at 16, but you have to be 18 to buy alcohol 16,5% or over. There's these fruit flavored shots that used to be around 25% alcohol which are very popular among young people. So much so that a new version was created at exactly 16,4% alcohol so the younger people could legally buy it.
Ah ja, små sure
Jävla danskar håller på o ljuger och är lite små full! 😂
And people think vapes were the first drug market to target children. Alcohol will always be very dangerous but society loves it too much to get rid of
Those shots in tiny bottles that are really expensive and taste terrible?
Ha, just means they have to drink more to get as drunk.
Back in my freshman year of college I took a shot of this. I’ll never forget the burning I felt as it went through my body.
I used to drink it all the time and I can't remember the burning feeling at all because it did its job
Man I was on a tab of acid and my buddy was like “the everclear, we must each take a shot straight” it ended up being two. Strangely I wasn’t very drunk, considering acid makes it hard for me to get drunk that’s reasonable but still. That taste man, never forget it
@@probablynotsatan9440 Rip liver
Sounds like a Polish uni freshman.
I had a 90% illegal black absinthe in school at around the age of 15 and drank some out of the bottle in class and same as you I can still feel the burn 10 years later lmao
My grandma is making "Nalewki" with 96% alcohol we call "Spirytus" in Poland.
She stuffs a bunch of the green walnut peels and dried fruits into a bottle and tops it off with the alcohol.
After it stands in the cellar for a couple months, it turns into a fantastic medicine for cold and breathing problems.
When I was a kid she used to rub it on my chest and mix in a teaspoon of it onto my tea when I was sick.
I don't know what's the science behind it, but it worked better than anything my dad could get at a pharmacy...
Oh, and my grandpa makes "Nalewki" too, but for a bit different reasons ;)
Science is: as a kid you got drunk really easily, and stop feeling bad. Still, not healty for sure...
@@pope88fblmao
@@pope88fb More likely the fumes helped open up the sinuses, like Vicks. Hence the chest rubbing
My buddy’s mom slipped us a shot of spirytus or something was 96%. I thought I was just being a puss until the 300lb guy ran to the garbage to spit his shot out lol
@@pope88fbnah, you don't understand the science. When putting that little alkohol in tea its almost certainly evaporated by the time its cold enough that a child drinks it. It worked better than the pharmacy stuff because the herbs and a little of the fumes help clear up sinuses and well, placebo, because grandma did it.
I've had one mixed drink in my life. It was made with everclear... by an extreme alcoholic. I was already drunk, and when he brought me a banana milkshake with everclear in it and insisted it was awesome, my drunk mind believed him.
Actually, it was delicious, and i drank the whole thing, no upset stomach or throwing up, but it was definitely a stiff drink, i was absolutely hammered after drinking it.
Did you end up on the floor?
@kevinreyimperial722 No, shortly after the party was busted up by the cops. The owner of the house received over 20 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and the same number of kids were written tickets... I received no ticket even though I was 16 at the time, I even managed to keep my beer from being poured out. After the cops left, I finished my beer and walked home.
@@invisalats841 wtf 😭
@@invisalats841Damn, man. That's such a wild ass story.
I drank Everclear straight once, I still forget were I'm at sometimes and loose consciousness when ever a microwave starts up.
dude got dissociative amnesia out of a everclear ☠️
Happens all the time
The *high-alcohol* stuff makes the *greatest Bloody Mary's* and *Screwdrivers* that you have ever tasted. Just remember that any drink that you make will be inherently a *double.*
I don't know if I'm brave enough for an Everclear screwdriver 😳
@@SlightlyCultured that'd be like what? A tablespoon of Everclear per glass of juice XD
@@DTux5249 Do not underestimate the power of the dark side
Yeesss dude Everclear screwdrivers are bomb. I usually use 1-2 shots of Everclear. Quickest way to get to 5/10 besides drinking straight liquor.
@@SlightlyCultured Red solo cup. Three shots of Everclear. Pour medium pulp OJ up to the lowest line toward the top, slow pour grapefruit juice to get it to the next line, then add enough ice cubes to get it to the the next line. Do not stir as you'll aerate the mixture and you don't want that. The strong bitter taste of the grapefruit at first will prepare you for the sweet and spicy OJ that follows. It's surprisingly smooth if you use cold juices with warm alcohol and by the time the ice melts towards the end of the drink it tastes like a fruity vodka. It's one of those drinks that lies to you and it's easy to forget what you're really drinking. I got 10 people completely wrecked with this concoction one time, not counting the poor soul who was fooled by the drinks smoothness and decided to pour his own, which was essentially half a solo cup of Everclear and half OJ... We told him he was being fucking stupid but he needed to see the blood in his vomit the next morning to understand for himself I guess! He's fine btw, so it's okay to laugh. HAHAHAHAHAH. Good drink if you keep your wits about you. I called it The Nail in the Coffin.
“Please, please, please, do not drink Everclear straight”
Too late. Somebody gave me two shots of the stuff at a graduation party and I was dying- on top of jell o shots, beer, and some other fun stuff.
Oh bro someone handed me the wrong bottle on accident, to chug, i ended up chugging a quarter of the bottle, it was my 5th time drinking i didnt wanna be a pussy so i was like ill tough it out. Pain. Pain is all i feel. Needles going down my throat
@@noname-zn1pt My friend turned to me like 20 minutes after the 2nd shot and in a raspy voice he was like: "are you still feeling a burn in the back of your throat too?" *_coughs_*
😂
Immediately I go: "Dude I was about to ask you the same fucking thing!"
I took a shot once and it was equivalent to popping a pill. It builds up and then smacks you in the face before you realize.
@@noname-zn1pt you should only drink high alcohol percentage drinks when your mouth is filled with saliva otherwise you increase the change of getting throat cancer
I lost my license for 2 years because of it
Back in college I played beer pong with straight Everclear... All I can remember is waking up in the ER with the DR saying I was in a coma for the last 12hours, and I had a 96% chance I wouldn't come out of it. I forget how many times I was over the alcohol limit. Needless to say I never drank that crap again.
A story to remember. Alcohol is one of the few mean poisons that by itself is not as toxic as what your body makes of it (acetaldehyde). This leads to the problem that you can ingest more than the lethal dose without noticing. Most food poisons will make you pass out as you reach lethal levels.
Yea your lying
@@gibblyjones8411 I wish I was…
This would be believable if you didnt throw out that 96% bs😂😂 doctors dont tell your that even if they actually had an accurate way to measure that, thats movie shit
@@aheinrich2535 man I wish I was lying 😂
When you're Polish and notice that the "world's strongest spirit" is weaker than generic 96% stuff you can find on a shelf in any supermarket
i scrolled far to long for this comment
It's because we slavs can drink anything alcohol-related
Spiritus officially is not made for drinking it raw, even if some idiots drink it.
Literaly every random hobo on the street is drinking it straight from the bottle
@Ecard Ecardian moonshine right.....
The most concerning part about everclear is when you pour it out, anything that spills just evaporates before you can get a towel to wipe it up.
That is why you quickly lick it up BEFORE it evaporates. Makes a date interesting if you 'accidentally' spill it on her.
Guy I knew used Everclear to make this apple cinnamon moonshine, absolutely delicious. So good it was a little misleading in how strong it was but damn it was good.
Dude get me a recipe, Im hooked.
hello fellow verified person
@@braindeadreece fellow? Call me back when that happens
recipe?
Hello diesel! Doesn't expect you here
Handing someone a glass of this stuff on a hot day and telling them it's cold water would probably be the most devious prank of the century
Pretty sure they could smell it.
@@kowhaifan1249yeah, their eyes would be watering before it even touched their lips, lmao.
Taking a shot of everclear was like a "right of passage" in my college years...Don't do it. It goes down as smooth as a pinecone set on fire.
@juan tamez I've got a video of me shooting it with the straightest face I could possibly manage. you can see the instant regret in my eyes.🤣
*rite of passage
@@lostforever773 welcome to the club dude. I’m an alcoholic too.
@@fernandocovarrubiascomander well, I'm not
It’s like gasoline
I don’t add any water, just leave it at full proof after straining, it means you don’t have to worry about refrigeration or anything, it will keep forever at the high proof. You can always just add soda water to the drink. Use a coffee filter or bag to strain it better if you want a less cloudy result.
You know that's true, I guess water could potentially cause quicker spoiling. That's a good note, same with the coffee filter, thanks Afwaller!
In theory if you diluted everclear by a ratio of 1 liter everclear to 1.2 litres of water you should get 39.5% alcohol, about the same as standard vodka.
Indeed!
aka how they make smirnoff
@@SlightlyCultured uP
Why mix water..
No you need 1.405 liters of water
Fun fact: Everclear has so much ethanol that if you put it in your car it can run with no problem and also with a small chance to increase power (small difference)
"Pls do not drink Everclear directly..."
Somewhere in a black room the Cold Ones bois casually take a shot on some undiluted 96% Beltion after they take a shot on a diluted one
I tried mixing Everclear with Hawaiian Punch. Never caught so much as a buzz. That was because as soon as it hit my stomach, it felt like Mike Tyson hit me right in the gut with a haymaker. Took the partying spirit right out of me. Haven't touched it since.
Used too much and blamed in the alcohol.
I didn’t even realize Hawaiian punch still existed
FUCKIN RIOT PUNCH hahaha
it was probably the hawaiian punch tbh
I have drank it straight. I was piss drunk already and managed three shots of it in one night. I projectile vomited on the third.
It tastes like pain, nothing more.
My face still involuntarily scrunches up in disgust when I think back on the memory.
I also learned that night that if you leave the bottle open it will evaporate at room temperature.
I drank some 90% thing once. Some traditional italian drink. What I remeber about is that it felt like it didnt even reafh my stomach and it was evaporating inside my throat. Even on the tongue it felt more like gas fumes than a liquid
@@stannicolae4623 ya I know what you mean. I could feel the fumes tickling the roof of my mouth
@@stannicolae4623 i’m italian and the liquor you might be talking of could be ‘Fuoco dell’Etna’ which means ‘fire of the Etna’, a volcano in Sicily, so that would match your description perfectly
@@thunderfox9358 da noi si chiamava gocce imperiali, feci uno shot a 19 anni e ho avuto bruciori di stomaco per giorni 🙃
@@thunderfox9358 could be, but I was in Abruzzo. I think it was some herb amaro
Take your favorite hard candies, I suggest ones with chocolate and/or caramel put them in a jar cover with Everclear, seal it and let it sit for a year or two, the candy will disolve into a syrup thats still very strong and a great additive on ice-cream or to just get drunk fast on something that tastes great. Ive also done this with lemons and sugar or cherries and it was awesome both times.
Wow, interesting
I thought it said candles lol
Since no one explained what an azeotrope is, I'll do it:
An azeotrope basically means a mixture of two liquids that boils off at a specific concentration. For ethanol+water that is a 95.58% ethanol concentration. This means if you distill off ethanol out of a solution in water you only can only get 95.58% ethanol. If you want any higher concentration you either have to use something like toluene (which is toxic) to distill off the rest of the water in another azeotrope, or use some drying agents like Sodium Sulfate which is probably too much of a hassle to get in food grade and kind of time intensive if you want to get a product out fast.
In Germany you can get "trinkspiritus" with 96%.
How's that's possible?
@@lpjust6 I guess they just round up to 96%
I've used molecular sieves, kinda tricky to make sure the dust doesn't dirty up the ethanol.
@@callumh4991 Yea I saw NileRed's video on that, he made 100% ethanol using molecular sieves
@@lpjust6 the 95.58% figure quotes is by mass. By volume you can achieve about 97%.
The azeotrope can also be moved by changing the pressure, allowing higher concentrations.
In Poland we would add sugar instead of alcohol to extract juice from berries during these two days. Then we would add spirytus (95-96% abv) which is practically the same as Everclear and wait for at least few weeks. The final product should have around 50-70 % abv and we call it "nalewka".
I had a friend a few years back during high school who’s choice of alcohol was straight everclear. He was always barefoot, always disappearing or laying on the floor lmao. I barely dipped my tongue into a cap of it once and I felt like SpongeBob when he tried Gary’s food. Idk how he did it all those times, but damn!
He's dead now
I had a couple of shots of medicine level-alcohol, which is 98% (196 proof). It's easy to drink, it is warming and cooling at the same time. The trick is not to breathe in and especially not through the nose when you drink it.
there's a fine line between being hardcore and straight up suicidal. that friend probably drank that line (don't ask me how that works)
Yup, that SpongeBob scene pretty much summarizes my experience too.
Keyword here is was
I once took 3 shots of Everclear in my junior year of college. Most of my friends had already turned 21 but I was still many months away from that point. They left some drinks in our dorm room. I found the Everclear, took 3 shots in succession and then quickly passed out. Hours later my friends found me unconscious, managed to wake me up and scolded me something harsh afterwards. I’ve never drank Everclear since
All of these wild stories about drinking , throwing up, or passing out on Everclear and all I remember was Everclear poured into a half empty jug of juice being my Friday night goto mix in college. No problems.
Ur just not drinking enough then
@@kinsal_9308 Hey...can't say I didn't try.
There's a 120 proof version, and a 151 proof version as well.
In the Army we made a "Death Mix" using a fifth of everclear, a 20 oz bottle of Gatorade and a can of red bull. Those were some best nights I don't fully remember
I used to blow fire with it hahaha
i remember seeing dudes take shots of everclear in college, they were basically insta-drunk lol kinda like the alcohol version of taking a dab
Did they graduate? lmaooooo
I do that lol
@@kolbyrpm5982 same
If you think dabs are hardcore then I shouldn't try RSO, basically pure thc, they also have little bottles that have more thc in them then like 10 grams of 80 to 90%. Highest % of wax I've ever smoked was probably 98%
@@alexcook9925 You will tell me now. Where do I locate the heavy hitting wax ?
I am from Poland, and in the past I thought that 95% spirit can be bought everywhere. I think in Japan they call it Polish vodka.
Polish friend of mine got a bottle of vodka for us to drink once. I puked after 7 shots and she drank the rest of the bottle 🤣🤣
They do, and it's disgusting
@@Dylski. słaba bania i tyle :)
I love Poland
Parts of the US you can get that 95% Polish spirit, parts of it you can't. It's readily available around where I live, though I live in a town where the school district offers official communications in Polish so that's kinda to be expected.
Chemist here: an azeotrope is a mixture of substances with a lower boiling point than either of its components on their own. With ethanol and water, this occurs around 95%. This means if you attempt to distill it, what you're boiling off is 95% alcohol and 5% water, therefore not changing the alcohol content, because this mixture has a lower boiling point than pure alcohol.
I started drinking heavily after I got out of the army. Ever clear was always my go-to because it’s cost-effective. The man at the liquor store once finally asked “what do you mix with this?” I replied “Just ice and water” and you should’ve seen the look on his face then he said “that’s a good way to burn up your intestines!”
He wasn’t wrong, I have extremely painful peptic ulcers now. So if you’re gonna consume it, be smart. Don’t be a jack ass like me and destroy your body!
So the alchohol is so strong that if you don’t mix it with anything it burns your insides? Does 40% do this? Or just very high amounts like ever clear
Its a sad story repeated over and over. I've watched many come back from war and drink it straight.
If you dilute it 50% it's no different than vodka
When I click this and watched all of your other videos you posted so far I was ready to binge watch everything you had and then I realize that you’ve only posted 4 videos that are very high-quality I think you’re really gonna go places and I love your style
Thanks Sonny, I really appreciate the kind words!
If you make pies from scratch, then you need a couple bottles of this in your pantry like I have. Completely dissolve your salt in half the water called for in your dough recipe, replace the other half with Everclear, and then place the combined liquid in the freezer until ice cold. The alcohol prevents the liquid from becoming solid, the salt is entirely dissolved in liquid so it gets evenly distributed, the liquid is as cold as ice to depress gluten production in the dough, and the alcohol mostly evaporates during the bake -- especially when blind-baking. This gives you a dough that is pliable and workable before baking, but bakes up flakier and more tender due to less water interacting with the proteins in the dough.
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damn that’s interesting
@@sucloxsucloxssonor just take a screenshot and forget about it
Wow, thanks for the chemistry lesson ; )
And thought the only use for it was the jungle juice we made in the service.
as an Irish. anyone above 6 years old can chug 1.42 bottles on average before having any effect
lmao. i know you're kidding but man this stuff is lethal
@@dnice374 fr
Chemist here: An azeotrope is a solution (mixture) of two or more pure compounds (chemicals), in our case water and ethanol. In such a ratio that its composition can no longer be changed by simple distillation, because if you boil it, the vapors have the same composition as the liquid mixture you are trying to separate. The highest concentration of ethanol-water solution that can be achieved by normal distillation is 95.5% ethanol and 4.5% water. There are "tricks" to remove the remaining water, but basically it is quite difficult to get 100% pure ethanol as it pulls water out of the air as much as possible. There are technical ways to achieve at least 99.7% pure ethanol. But only with considerable technical effort.
So what you're saying is that alcohol IS in fact a solution.
@@superslash7254 yes because there is no such thing as actually 100% pure ethanol. You can only archive that within a sealed system without air (moisture) in it.
Spyritus Rektiviozka (Polish rectified alcohol) is 97.5%
@@supermaster2012maybe until You open it, then it absorbs water from enviroment and You end up with ~95% depending on humidity i guess?
@@an0nim11 no, the dissolved sugars prevent it. However, it does evaporate very quickly to the point that taking a small shot is practically impossible because by the time you put it in your mouth half of it has already evaporated and the other half evaporates as soon as it touches your mouth due to body temperature.
I use Everclear to fortify my dessert honey mead. Brings the ABV of the mead from 15% to 21%, past the alcohol threshold where yeast can ferment the added sugar. Port is also made this way, but they use Brandy, which I think works great for wines but not so much for honey mead.
Had no idea you were a small youtuber. That's insane and a testament to your content and production quality. Just get a high res camera and better mic audio and you're set up to be big
Wow, thanks for the really kind words Kegan! Hoping to get more gear as we grow!
Going to college in western Ohio (where Everclear couldn’t be purchased), people would make runs over to Indiana to buy it. Some of our terrible decisions were making Jell-O shots out of Everclear (sometimes in small bowls instead of shot glasses). I also recall the last week when many had already completed our finals, someone still had the remaining portion of a handle (1.75L) of Everclear in their dorm room and their parents were coming to pick them up. Several of us were doing shots of Everclear to help dispose of the bottle. I remember doing 4 shots. Many of us were ‘napping’ mid afternoon.
I remember drinking some straight EC in HS to show the sort of 'bad kids' I was tough in some regard. Cool thing about it was that there was no hangover. Drunk af one second and bam, on the way home, it suddenly wears off and everything is feeling normal again. Went home, said hi to my parents, hit the Playstation like nothing even happened.
Nice story
That's exactly the thing with alcohol, it's not the alcohol ITSELF that gets you drunk, it's when plant sugars react with the alcohol that it makes you drunk.
So that's not very surprising, but try mixing it with something really sugary and i promise you it'll be hard not to blackout.
@@swaghettimemeballs4420 I'm guessing you don't know what the chemical name for grain alcohol is....
@@swaghettimemeballs4420 Nah, stupid teenage me will stick with not being painfully hung over for 8:15 algebra class tomorrow.
@@jcast25 lmao
I cleaned my bong with this stuff.
Good for making oils and edibles aswell
Deep as fu 😂👌
I ran a car with this stuff lol
Once you've cleaned several bongs, evaporate the alcohol and you can smoke the resin.
"Heyyyy! It's the weekend, can you make me an Everclear drink w some berries?"
"Sure"
"Hey it's been 20 mins, where's my drink?"
"Come back on Monday"
Twice i finished a bottle. One time i passed out for two days and woke up in hospital with failing kidneys, the other time i passed out in my bed and woke up fine
Chemical Company PR: Sir our pure ethanol sales are dropping.
CEO: Let’s put a label on it and sell it as a drink.
Stocks: 📈📈📈
You mean STONKS 📈📈📈
Lamafiaososja
Meh.
While in the USAF back in the 70s our Everclear parties began on Friday night and with a new trash can. Cover charge was fruit while the Everclear was arranged. Being stationed outside of Rapid City, SD we usually had the party in the badlands or in the Black hills. This was necessary because after a couple of times putting the word out we learned no one's house/apt had enough room. Like I said the party started Friday night but for those of us that had to report in on Monday, Sunday was time to go back. Of course there was usually leftover joy juice that there were some slow to go well into the week. Also someone always seemed to be coming back off leave and show up with a pocket full of hometown flavor to share.
I work in a liqueur plant and had the opportunity to buy 97,6vol% pure ethanol.
Being cocky, and having tried it already, I invited a friend to some 4cl shots of it.
He fell asleep on the spot. I was so drunk that, later on, I got a wheelbarrow to bring him home.
Thank heavens, there was still a sober driver in our group to bring him home.
Incredible how all our bodies react completely different to get the poison out of the system.
Dude, I like your format. Very informative & entertaining as well, you'll be big someday
Wow! Thank you, that means so much!!!
Yeah I was super surprised to see the sub count you have after watching. We’ll done
@@TheGiantHog Thanks Hog! I really apppeciate it!
30 subs?! Make it 31. When I clicked on this vid I assumed you were a big channel , can’t believe your production quality!!
Wow, thank you so much Jasper! That really means alot!
Once the state run liqour stores in Washington lost their monopoly. Everclear has been legal in Washington State. In the past the state run liqour stores refused to sell it. Now you can buy it at Safeway.
hmm interesting
yeah ive seen it in stores, true
Now we have to remove the state monopoly on weed so we can grow our own.
I'm from Germany and when me and my friend wanted to go to Sweden on vacation we looked for the strongest and purest alcohol that we could find at the supermarket to take it with us because alcohol is very expensive and difficult to get in Sweden. We found something called Spyritus 95 in the supermarket and it actually also has 95% alcohol. This way we could carry a lot of alcohol in a very efficient way to Sweden. In Swede we always mixed it with water and syrup to drink it. It tasted like ass but it did the job and we got very drunk. Best trip to Sweden ever.
That one guy : “Any man who doesn’t drink everclear straight is no real man.
What were we talking about I seem to have pissed myself.”
I’ve never laughed so much at a video about alcoholic drinks. Cheers 🍻 you just earned a sub thank you for your work. These edits are great 😂
Love to hear that these videos make people laugh! Super stoked you enjoyed!
@@SlightlyCultured loved the edit! Subbed
Friend of mine who is a big guy went through a time where he drank a lot. His tolerance combined with his build lead him to doing shots of this stuff straight because it was the most economical way for him to get drunk lol
Those stories be funny till he calls you a year from now needing a kidney transplant
Dude straight shots are so terrible. It sucks the moisture from your throat and gives you this terrible dry gagging. It's been 10 years since I even did shots with buddies in college but I still distinctly remember how brutal it was. i hope he's at least chasing it.
Yo! This was me. I hardly drink anymore. But that was surely the cheapest way around for me to reliably do it.
In Poland we have Spiritus which also ranges from 95% or 96% (It is widely considered to be the highest commercial alcohol product sold as a beverage). We normally use it for a beverage called nalewka (most similarly to a sweetened tincture). My grandfather would but barriers, lemon, honey, and a few herbs, then age it for months. It was like an alcoholic tea. My dad had his own spin with nuts. Everclear or any really high abv vodkas are like an empty canvas.
I think the strongest alcohol that I've ever drank straight was some type of spiced rum that was like 50 or 55% abv. This was back when I was really drinking heavily like in 2008 and 2009. I haven't drank anything alcohol in the past several years though. This was during a time when Four Lokos, Joose, and Tilt all had caffeine in then mixed with 12% alcohol.
LoL im 17 and drank 85% hehe. It tasted not that bad
I was 18 when I bought my first bottle of 69% absinthe and my god, thats the highest they can legally sell here in Queensland
@@user-ed5bd5xp1x it don't seem that long ago since I turned 17, but that was on May 11th, 2001. However I remember the first time I drank alcohol like wine I remember was on Thanksgiving and my mom gave us a glass of wine. This was when I was 10 years old in 1994. I think the wine was like Merlot or Cabernet.
@Logan Marquez 24 to 25 years old I remember was when I first tried four loko which was in early 2009. Before that, I do remember trying Sparks a few times in 2006 and 2007. This was when all those alcoholic drinks had caffeine in them.
Strongest liquor I've ever had is Bundaberg Overproof, which is a rum here in Australia. 57% alcohol.
I'm Polish and we call it "Spirytus" here, my grandpa used to mix it with onions and herbs and then proceeded to drink it with a spoon, many times he let me try it, I was only 6 back then lol
Was it tasty?
@@Galvatron102 Honestly that was so long ago that I forgot what the taste is like, but I assume it's ok given the fact that my 'pa was making it sometimes
@@Galvatron102 it tastes like pure ethanol and death, with herbs
No you can buy Spiritus here in Canada. I've tried both.
“Please don’t drink everclear straight”
Well I’ll be sure to tell high school me that and my friends. God were we stupid.
As an American I'm glad you gave the value in proof. I have never had any need to memorize what the heck "percent" units are.
Taking shots of everclear for alcohol drinkers is like drinking a shot of straight grease for cooks.
your video quality is *outstanding* I can't believe you're at less than a MILLION subs, let alone 100?! wow I got in _early_ on your amazing content, ha!
WOW! What a kind comment! I really appreciate that Abyss!
I had an interesting experience with Everclear back in college…. The best part of it involved fresh fruit, the worst involved shot glasses and fire.
Blowing fire is fun, until it isn’t
Azeotrope doesn’t make it undrinkable. An azeotrope is just 2 liquids that are similar enough in boiling point that it becomes impractical to separate any further. Any more alcohol and it would need to be dried chemically which makes anhydrous ethanol which is toxic.
Tldr: azeotrope means too hard to separate and still be able to drink
I had a shot of Everclear in Hyder, Alaska. It’s not that bad.
Did you aye?
The bums in my town would buy the boot mickeys and soak them in bread and get fucked up. Their favourite spot was behind my old high school in a ditch called “Lysol Creek” lol
It's actually pretty smooth when compared to a similar alcohol. Diesel tastes terrible but I found that imo Everclear had no taste
@@cannedheat2264 imlaughing for a solid 5 minutes now
@@cannedheat2264 lysol creek 😂😂😂
In high school, we made PJ (everclear with fruit juices and fresh fruit). The longer you wait the better it gets (we didn’t have much patience back then (usually 12 hours)).
I made the mistake of drinking Everclear straight in college. I also used it to make Green Dragon (weed tincture), which is a very interesting concoction all by itself. Being that THC is fat and alcohol soluble but most other drinks are WATER and alcohol soluble, whenever you make a mixed drink with the Green Dragom, the THC precipitates into a cloudy mixture on account of its lack of water solubility!!!
Two DUIs, years of addiction to other various "harder" substances, I am one year clean 😎
My first drink was whiskey st the age of 13 and it was love at first sight... I was like now I can be normal
Congratulations on one year sober! 👍🏼👍🏼
It is a food additive, but also great for sweetening smoking pipes. Fill the bowl with kosher salt, drop in a few drops of everclear, and it will leach out the bitter oils that have soaked into your pipe. I have a bottle with my smoking pipes for that purpose.
I remember at a party we took 2 bottles of everclear, several vodkas, and literal gallons of Hawaiin punch and chopped fruit and filled a (Cleaned) bathtub up with this jungle juice for roughly 90 people. I believe at least half of them crashed on the floor due to being too trashed. One of the best parties I've been too
Bro that could have been a nightmare man holy moly, glad you survived!
you could've cleaned the shit out of it its still gross. Idea has a hillbilly quality to it.
@@Scaler81 was back when I was in college, we did try our best, I'm sure the everclear cleaned it even better lol.
That sounds so nasty. All I imagine is a bunch of dude with giant straws sucking it down altogether.
0:34 you can actually have 100%, or something like 99+ by drying it with chemicals for example.
But yes you can drink 95+ alcohol, just means that the ethanol in the bottle can't be simply purified by distillation because the boiling point of this mixture in those concentration is actually lower than the boiling point of ethanol, so the concentration of ethanol in the vapour and in the liquid will be ~ the same.
Damn watching this I was so entertained that I went to find more videos on your channel, but seeing that you have so few subscribers genuinely upset me. Keep doing what you do and you will be big one day!
Thanks for the kind words Manden! I'll make sure to keep pumping out videos!
@@SlightlyCultured damn, knew I was onto something! :)
When Estonia was independent between the two world wars, the Estonian Liquor Monopoly marketed 98 per cent alcohol distilled from potatoes (196 proof in US terminology). It was the strongest alcohol sold in shops for drinking.
Hitting its azeotrope wouldn't make it undrinkable, it's just the temperature where distilling it further would remove too much alcohol. Basically, 95% is the highest abv you can have because you can't extract any more water from it without it losing enough alcohol such that the 95% volume% ratio of ethanol to water is preserved
You can technically make it stronger, but not with normal distillation
@@seemslegit6203 you can normally get up to 96%, but 0.4% will disappear over time. In PL we have 96% spiritus in almost every shop, we use it to make tinctures, liqueurs and other high voltage alcohols.
@@de_iure I'm Polish.
We finished a bottle one time, me and my homie. After a couple shots goes down smooth. Just keep some water by you'll be fine.
Meanwhile, members of the "Peek a Boo" club from Grand Blue: "Taste like water"
Finally I found a Grand Blue reference🤣🤣🤣
they also drink spirytus which is far stronger than Everclear
for the blackberry sage, I'd recommend using something like muslin with your sieve to really help remove any pieces of fruit that are left
"and next, two shots of Everclear"
*_"whoo, it's gonna be strong"_*
I once made an Applejack that came out to 99% ABV. This is only accomplished by freeze distillation, and takes days and days to do. The not-booze part wasn't water. It was apple flavoring. No water. Only booze. That stuff smelled like floor cleaner, tasted like being beaten to death with a flaming apple, and one shot had me buzzed.
Freeze distillation will not get nearly to 99% lmfao you drank 27% and got buzzed that’s on you
Yeah, you have no idea what you're talking about. Freezing won't even get you close to 50% let alone 99.
Distillation can only get to 95% molecular sieves is how you get to 100%.
Why do people lie so blaintantly? I bet you've been cow tipping aswell huh?
my man, the only way you're getting past the 95.5 azeotrope point is with molecular sieves, definitely not with freeze distillation
Back in college, on of my last memories from a party was me chugging what I thought was the smallest bit of everclear at the bottom of the bottle. All I remember is tilting it, then I woke up the next day half dead 🤢
I found it useful to erase sharpie-on-CDr mistakes as well as an instant hand cleaner with a paper towel. In Oregon where the liquor stores are state controlled, apparently one of the rules is they have to keep it under the counter and only dispensed when asked for.
Ya know I use everclear as a solvent. The azeotrope oversimplified means at a certain point alcohol and water will come over with more and more with less alcohol when you try to push past 95%. So it will actually dilute the 95% I use molecular sieves to trap the water and I make my everclear 100% or 200 proof. I think it would just strip water out of your throat mouth and stomach. You would think that the extra 5% alcohol wouldn't make it stink too much worse but it makes a decent difference. I'll just keep using it as a solvent but once in awhile I think boy one shot would lay someone out 😂😂
Great video BTW I don't drink but you really got me wanting to try one of the drinks youve made!
Came here for the Polish comments and I'm not disappointed. Like, yeah, we can drink it over here and so we do sometimes. Undiluted. It is a tricky pony though. You either breath yer air out of the lungs and then drink it, or you take a deep breath, drink, then breath out the air. This method won't burn yer lungs with the ethanol fumes. This part you have missed, laddie :). Anyroad, thanks for posting.
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Hey friends! I just wanted to say that, about a day after I posted this, I learned that there is a stronger alcohol clocking in at 96%. So yeah, ya'll can stop commenting that, I am aware lmaooo. I've also become aware that my info on what states it's banned in might be outdated. Primarily in PA, MA, and WA. Lastly, if you plan on making the black berry sage infusion, definitely go lighter on the sage. After drinking it more after filming, the sage was too much and took over. Thanks for watching!
P.S. Super excited you guys enjoy this video, it makes me super happy to see all the super kind comments and it encourages me to make more videos. Just wanted to say thank you thank you thank you ❤
I’ve had absinthe that was 96% I got it in a liquor shop in Amsterdam.
Imma citrus guy when it comes to everclear. Ton of orange lemonade and clementine dropped straight on the everclear.
Eesti Piiritus, or Estonian rectified spirits still probably holds the stronges alcohol record. According to legend it was 98% pure, but most likely that was just thelimitation of the measuring tools used and it did not exceed 97.2% ABV.
It's a 1% abv difference. It's gonna turn into mostly alcohol vapor going down either way
Polish Spirytus
As I got a M. Sc. in chemistry I distilled all my old spirits at home and by some additional ingredients (aka edible/food grade chemicals) I was able to 'dry'/purify it even further than 95%. The feeling of drinking tiny table spoon amounts is astonishing! Of course with more than 95% it will absorb water from atmospheric humidity so it's unstable.
I have been drinking grain alcohol, Everclear and or Graves straight for years, since 1996. You can not drink alot, but you can. If you shoot it, 2 shots are enough for a night, please don't drive or operate any machinery. I use to mix equal parts Everclear and clear overproof jamaican rum and vanilla beans. Its a Olde Fashion Mike Tyson punch to the nose of a drink
Wow, you must know how to party LOL
Don’t drink it straight.
Everyone in college/uni shotting it straight
I hated drinking(the taste) when sober in college but I liked to drink socially. My solution was a shot of everclear folled by a can of my favored chaser soda, wait 20 minutes then repeat as necessary. 4-5 shots usually did the trick to get a buzz.
Used to mix this in Icees back in the 90's during frat parties. Last time I drank it I woke up under a foosball table half blind, with no idea what had happened over the previous 48 hours. That was it for me.
I had a shot of this once. Besides the feeling (which I could best describe as drinking liquid pain), it felt like I drank 4 shots at once instead of the just one. Crazy stuff
This video is so good! The special effects are fun! The details are so informative! Mixology!
Glad you enjoyed it!
"The liquor is calling the shots now, Randy..."
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This reminds me of the Harry Buffalo at student parties in the 80s. Thanks for showing how it can be used. Keep away from open flames.
Hahah.....the Classic ...Everclear.....we used to drink that stuff when we were young!
Good times.......no memory at all of those times, but good times....😂😂