This is obviously just a goofy ad campaign.
You can buy Everclear in the states, which is as strong as this.
When I was in college, I knew a guy who used to steal 100% alcohol from a lab, and we'd drink that in fruit juice. It tasted like fruit juice with really strong alcohol in it.
That was not 100% EtOH. It was 100% anhydrous EtOH. It contained benzene and other drying agents.
Stick with the 95%.
Yeah, this is goofy. I "discovered" everclear my freshman year, then promptly undiscovered it when I realized how nasty it was.
"The US Secret Service admitted in 2003 that it had been monitoring the distillery because the difference between distilling a fine whisky and making chemical weapons was “just a small tweak”."
The marketing folks there are having just a wee bit to much fun!
Actually, this is true:
American spies home in on weapons of mass drunkenness
...Managers at the Bruichladdich Distillery on the Hebridian island of Islay, famous for producing Scotland's best malt whisky, were puzzled when they received an e-mail from "Ursula", asking them to repair their webcam that broadcasts scenes from the Victorian distillery to whisky lovers around the world.
After inquiring, they found that Ursula was a spy with the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)...
The US secret service had marked the distillery as a potential terrorist threat because its traditional method of distilling whisky was similar to that used to manufacture chemical weapons. "It's hilarious," Reynier said. "Mind you, we're a sinister-looking bunch, so I can see how we might be mistaken for al-Qaeda."
Ursula Stearns of the DTRA said the agency's mission was to safeguard the US and its allies from weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high explosives)...
When I was in college, I knew a guy who used to steal 100% alcohol from a lab, and we’d drink that in fruit juice.
And now you’re dead.
You are lucky to be alive after that stunt. Ethanol and water form an azeotrope that boils off to create 92% ethanol when condensed. An azeotrope is a mixture that boils at a lower temperature than either component alone. To drive off the remaining water from the 92% ethanol, the common method is to mix it with benzene. While you get rid of the rest of the water, you never quite drive off the remaining benzene. Drinking that stuff will damage your liver.
Ah, yes. The good ol’ fashioned propane party.
I have never been as hammered as after drinking propane spiked Cool-Aide. Thing was, I could never taste any alcohol in it. Pure grain alcohol has no flavor; liquor (as do all alcoholic beverages) derive their flavor from the inherent congeners. And there just aren’t any.
Propane comes in two varieties: Everclear and Crystal Clear. The latter being a mere 180 proof. Regardless, the difference is trivial (two shots for one).
One really has to be careful of drinking the stuff straight, in that imbibing a whole shot at once will put one at risk of instant dessication of an antire layer of epithelials in the mouth, gums, palatte, esophogus. Never happened to me, but I was warned that an entire layer would just slough off in one huge gummy mass. Yummy.
The one thing that I always found fascinating was ingesting a tablespoon of it: in goes liquid having a consistancy of water, and within seconds there’s absolutely nothing left to swallow.
In a land far away and in a time long ago
I “knew a feller” whose job it was
to add 100 ml of phenolpthalein to the incoming
5 gallon cans of pure laboratory grade ethanol
that arrived at the analytical lab.
I, oops I mean he, often took home a few hundred
mls of the unadulterated alcohol.
He told me that it had absolutely no taste and that
it would immediately dewater all of the mucous memranes
in your mouth. I, I mean he, consumed quite a bit of it,
watered down with various mixers, but it was a novelty
item but it had no real “drinking” value on its own.