Neutral Grain Spirits or "Grain Alcohol"
If nearly all of the water is removed from the fermented liquid, all that is left is the alcohol. Due to alcohol's natural attraction to water, it is very difficult to get ALL of the water out (which creates "scientific alcohol"), but it is relatively easy to get the alcohol content to 190 or 195 proof (95% or 97.5% alcohol by volume). Neutral Grain Spirits are nearly pure alcohol. Originally used as an ingredient in other alcoholic beverages or medicine, neutral grain spirits are sold in some states (including Indiana), as a high potency beverage in its own right. It is odorless and tasteless, but extremely potent. Since taste is not an object, production costs are very low, and most of the beverage cost is tax.
Everclear is a popular brand of neutral grain spirits. In most states where it is sold, Everclear is sold at 190 proof. Some states require lower potency, such as 155 proof. Everclear is a popular ingredient in some high-potency drinks popular with college students as a means of rapidly increasing BAC. Everclear is an ingredient in such college-student favorites as "Jello Shots" and punches such as: Tyson Punch (Everclear, Mellow Yellow, Kool Aid, Orange Juice, Sprite), Purple Jesus (Everclear and purple Kool-Aid, Jungle Juice (Everclear and any Kool-Aid), Smurf Piss (Everclear, Blue Kool-Aid and Mountain Dew) and Romulan Ale (Everclear, Vodka, Blue Curacao, Orange Flower Water)
http://www.drugs.indiana.edu/publica...h_potency.html
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gosh I've not had that since the '70s....I think if I had any of it now it would kill me for sure.__________________
Ill have to go get me some of that stuff. Although it will probably burn going down.__________________
Back in college a frat threw a party where each room had a movie theme and themed drink. In the Clockwork Orange room, you got to recline back in a lazy boy with the movie playing on a TV right before your feet, as pledges poured bottles of Everclear and Tang(!) down your throat. I got WAY messed up.
Hehe.
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