took a shot...well like half a shot, the other half went flying out of my head orifice i felt like dying afterwards, but became immensely amused by blowing everclear into a tiki torch BEWARE: drinking everclear and then spitting it onto tiki torches may result in a couch bonfire in your backyard. on the upside, you now have a fire pit. (once the toxic black plume of smoke and raging ball of fire/heat subsides)
Yeah when I was young and stupid . No reason to ever drink it straight . It's powerful shit at 190 proof no diff. than moonshine . it's over twice the alcohol content of other distilled spirits . And it's not good to drink it straight . Like drinking gas . Shit ate holes in my friends stomache . It's so concentrate it sucks the moisture from internal organs . And i have seen people go bat shit crazy on it . Including myself a couple times . Popcorn Sutton, one of the last legends of real moonshiners used to say four fights to every pint . Ole master Popcorn knew all about it . He passed not long ago , and there aren't many of his kind left today . thank God we get wiser as we get older . How I have managed to get this damn old and survive my younger batshit crazy years is beyond me . Most of the guys I came up with are dead and gone now , or doing revolving stints or long stretches in the American injustice system . Most because their addictions led them to destruction . But yeah cut that shit with somethin brother , no reason to drink it straight .
A young feller in a biker bar up Oregon way took a bet he couldn't chug a beer mug of everclear. He hit the floor stone cold dead before the empty mug did.
I've only drank it straight when backpacking. You have to save room so a big bottle of chaser isn't high on the list of priorities. Just take small sips. Like Orison said, it's just alcohol.
One time I was partyin with some friends drinking pretty hard on some 151 and vodka. Then this rednek neighbor called us over and asked if we wanted to try some everclear. He pulled out a little bottle of it which was about 1/6 of the way full. There was about 4 or 5 shots left in there, and he looked at me and said, "boy if you don't chug this whole thing your a pussy." He was obviously joking, but me being in the drunken state I was I took his challenge. I grabbed his bottle and started chugging and didn't stop til I finished the whole thing. Everyone was amazed to see I actually did it, and I got some, "got damn this boy can drank wooo" comments. I felt drunkingly accomplished and happy, but those feelings wouldn't last too long. About 15 minutes after I drank the everclear my chest was burning. I mean it was on fire! I couldn't breath it hurt so bad. I was trying to eat dortitos and just struggling. I ended up going to my car to try to sleep it off. Thats when the second part of the night kicked in. I woke in my car to a knock. I opened the car door and was instantly pied in the face with a napkin full of egg, mayonaise, hotsauce, and other disgusting ingredients. I ended up driving home half drunk still, screaming at the top of my lungs because there was hot sauce in my eye! When I finally got home I took all my clothes off and was clean my mayonnaise and egg out of my car at 3 in the morning, screaming and cussing in my boxers! Took forever for my eye to stop burning. Next day I had to get the car cleaned and it costs me 50 fucking dollars. Can't remember if my friends helped pay or not. Either way I now know that chugging everclear leads to a burnt chest, burnt eye, and a 50 dollar clean up bill. Shheeesssh. Use everclear for jungle juice like its intented!!
You can find it in California, but not at major supermarkets. I don't drink it straight, only after it's been drained after sitting for at least a week in about an ounce of trim, shaken daily. Then you have one hellofa tincture!
I don't believe in "vodka" for mixing when everclear is present, as vodka adds a lot of water to your drink for NO reason-less taste, less drunk. But as far as drinking it neat, if backpacking or something like letlovin said, maybe drinking it slowly lets you dilute it with spit, but I got some nasty burns the only time I've tried that, I drank a few shots worth over ice, and had a sore throat and stomach that evening and the next day. If drinking neat, I enjoy rum, whiskey, and tequila.
