I’m not a hard drink person, so please forgive my question.
I understand that Everclear is almost 100% ethyl Alcohol, could this be used (obviously in smaller quantities) as a substitute for high dollar vodka? I’m assuming that it has had more impurities removed to distil it to this proof.
Maximum alcohol achieved by distillation is a little over 95%, which is indeed what some Everclear is sold at. A lot of places require Everclear to contain no more than 75% or so alcohol.
My guess is that smoother tasting vodka actually contains more “impurities”, albeit of a controlled kind.
Fuel ethanol comes close to 100%, but at a very high engineering and energy cost. All of the “fusel oils” are returned to the fuel ethanol stream, as they make for acceptable fuel too.
I understand that Everclear is almost 100% ethyl Alcohol, could this be used (obviously in smaller quantities) as a substitute for high dollar vodka? I’m assuming that it has had more impurities removed to distil it to this proof.
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All vodka starts off as near-100% ethanol, and is diluted with water to about 40% or so. As has been discussed, it’s the small amounts of impurities that give different vodkas their good or bad qualities. So, yes you can mix Everclear and water and make vodka. However, don’t expect it to taste great.