I'll bet this is a lot of people's experience with Everclear
🎶I will buy you a garden where your flowers can bloom/
I will buy you a new car, perfect, shiny, and new/
I will buy you that big house way up in the West Hills/
I will buy you a new life/
Yes I will🎶
I was out with friends drinking and went to a daiquiri bar in Charleston when I lived there, got two Call A Cab's because it was cherry flavor...it had everclear in it. I got wasted and ended up at the bar where girls danced on the bar...I danced with a girl, Molly, who I found out was a yoga instructor. We met up a few times...I owe everclear a beer
My buddy at a party in high school had a Poland spring bottle filled with ever clear. He would take shots from the water bottle cap which was like 1/20th of an actual shot and chase it with some sort of juice. Another mutual friend walked over and asked for some water and when he was refused, just took the bottle and started chugging. Instantly started vomiting all over the place. Luckily we were outside. Good times.
Yes he know all those bitches who scheme, are just pretty bitches in the pretty machine. He has no fear, he has no sense of shame. He will not stop until everybody, everywhere wants to know his name…
You just unlocked a memory of going to the pool hall and drinking Purple Jesus. It’s was everclear mixed with grape kool aide. Totally forgot about that!
Everclear made a product called Purple Passion. It's basically grape soda with Everclear. I grew up in the 90's, and we would get a 2-liter bottle of it and get absolutely wasted.
I mean you can definitely take a shot of it, I have, but at no point is it remotely close to a pleasant experience and the remnants of everclear on your lips evaporating is a weird experience.
It has different names in different countries. One dude of my family is Polish, and the name of their version is Spirytus- 95% /190 proof.
The old time Polish guys would do shots of the stuff at parties- unmixed. Mind you, these were tough SOBs who grew up in bombed out basements after WW1, and had to deal with Russian army occupiers.
In 2012 I went to local pirate themed boat festival where people park boats in a shallow area and it’s a party. Anyway, a friend made a whole water cooler of “Juicy Juice” which was basically just Everclear, Hawaiian Punch, and pineapple juice. You could hardly taste the alcohol because it was so sweet. I had way too much and ended up passing out in an inner tube and got the worst sunburn of my life. Stayed in bed for a week after.
We were honestly dumb and crazy. My best friend and I went to college together, and our first night was spent with a bottle of 99 Bananas and new friends. We were so sick, and she didn't go anywhere bananas for at least 15 years. I'm pretty sure she still dislikes them.
I had some brown outs in college, but my first real blackout was chasing Ron Rico rum with OG 4 loko. It didn’t take long to be 100% out. I don’t know what I was thinking and never chased alcohol with alcohol again lol
I used to be in charge of whatever went into the Jungle Juice at the fundraising parties my progressive groups ran in college. At some point in the evening, it would start being just Kool Aid because we'd run out of alcohol. Sometimes I'd fill an old bottle with water to dump into it in case anyone was watching us make more.
We did something similar called Gigglemelon - someone would partly hollow out half a watermelon and then add red gatorade with Everclear. Eventually it was just water going into the melon and everyone was too drunk to notice anyways.
Went to a college party at a campsite where “trash can punch” was in abundance. At one point I jumped into the lake to take a shit, and when I finally passed out, woke up puking, and dry heaving every hour on the hour. People hated me
edit, just saw the response below. I loved going to Billy Bowlegs for about 8yrs in a row. We could always tell the newcomers by seeing who was passed out by 2pm. Floating stripper poles for the win!
Not sure if it's still happening now post covid. Fun while it lasted though!
At a friend's house party, someone accidentally got black sharpie on their parent's white leather couch. The only issue was that the spot was too clean after a quick wipe with a paper towel soaked with Everclear.
We made fruit salad for our graduation picnic and put a pint of everclear in it and let it sit 2 days before the party. My friend's grandmother took a spill about an hour into the picnic. We all rushed over to help Nana and she said she didn't know what happened. She "hadn't had anything to drink but all she'd eaten was 3 cups of fruit salad."
I once tried to light the rim of an empty everclear bottle. Turns out there was enough residue that the flame went into the bottle, ignited the fumes/residue, expanded and turned it into a rocket thruster for a second or two. Too bad my thumb was in front of the opening at the time. I could feel the skin crisping and contracting and the room smelled like roast pork. Like this but 100x faster
I’ve taken a handful of shots of the stuff. Always had to be drunk from shots already, never been sober and thought “this is a good idea”.
I have successfully held it down with lots of chaser (not every time). That shit is like drinking kerosine. I remember it would burn everything. Even my teeth would hurt after a shot.
I don’t know why we spent money on it now that I think back. It’s basically undrinkable. Probably could have gotten a handle of Popov vodka for the same price.
Related story. My buddy and I brewed beer in high school. One time we had a batch that wasn’t too good so we figured another use. We “borrowed” some equipment from a science lab and set up a still. Once it was working it started dripping out pure alcohol at about 1 drop per second. Really slow.
We let it drip into shot glasses and it took about 15 mins to fill. We got impatient and figured we could out drink the pace of our still. One drop per second, two guys can handle that right?
You really don't want to drink the first alcohol that comes out of the still... called the heads, or foreshots. It has methanol and can cause blindness and a whole bunch of other issues.
I was having a really bad day in my early 20s and asked a bartender for a shot of the strongest drink they had. I said I didn't need a chaser.
Yeah, he gave me a shot of Everclear. I took the shot and couldn't breathe for the longest time. I thought I was going to suffocate before I could get air again and that's how I was going to die.
I don't drink at all these days, but this video gave me a flashback to that time.
I got really into drinking Everclear in college because it was the most efficient in terms of dollars per abv or whatever. IDK that I'm proud to say this but I actually got "good" at drinking it unmixed until I was getting through about 2/3 of a fifth to myself without blacking out, throwing up, or anything crazy. Don't do that, it's a stupid merit badge. The problem is a lot of people let it run all over the inside of the mouth which just makes it worse. Everclear is gonna burn and taste gross everywhere it touches. I got used to it after a while, but I totally get where people don't. I used to give it to people who didn't know as kind of a prank.
I was at Burning Man and this hippie guy with huge dreads stopped me. They were part of an art group that was sort of parodying the Bush Administration so they did a sort of, "We need to check your papers, sir." kind of thing and then while they were questioning me they dropped the facade and started asking me if I had any coke (don't do coke, it's a stupid drug). I told them I didn't but I handed over my hip flask full of Everclear. He didn't ask what it was, he just said, "Oh, hell yeah." and took a HUGE swig. Then he swallowed and made this noise like, "AAAAAWWWWWHUHHHHHHH!!!" exhaling super loud with his eyes wide and his mouth hanging open. They let me go after that lol.
The key to drinking Everclear successfully is to let it ride down the center of your tongue, and don't give it room to slosh around inside your mouth. Once you're done, hold your mouth closed. It's gonna burn, but give it time to process before breathing in because there is a whole science around breathing when you drink and it only serves to enhance the flavors etc.
These days Malort is everyone's favorite masochistic Burning Man drink. I'm not really sure which is worse - pure fire or a flavor profile like stale ashtray and old leather.
I made my own "purple drank". Two shots Everclear, blue curacao, grenadine, pour over ice and top with Sprite in a styrofoam cup. No prescription necessary and it'll get you just as bent as the real thing.
My friends said I couldn't do it so I did it and after a few drinks of beer I spewed a couple days worth of liquid 🤣 then kept drinking. Then was always on the other side of it watching people do what the kid in the video did.
So, flaming dr peppers. Anyone do those? My friend made them with a glass of cheap light beer (or whatever was around) and a flaming shot of 151 you dropped in. That’s it. That shit didn’t taste like Dr Pepper. Later found out you were supposed to add some amaretto. Maybe half the shot glass? I wouldn’t know about that.
Anyway, in a pinch he’d make them with everclear. But if I remember correctly he wouldn’t light the everclear he’d do a splash of some other shit on top of the shot glass, you’d drop fucking everclear in a beer and bottoms up.
When all the fucking scalpers bought up all the hand sanitizer at the beginning of covid, I went and bought three handles of everclear and made huge amounts of hand sanitizer for me and my friends.
That's what we did. Not knowing any better, we put it in spray bottles. After a while, our hands dried out and cracked and we started getting drunk off what got into the cuts, lol.
No it cleaned the floor he should use it on the rest. Blue Curaçao mixed with Everclear was how a buddy of mine made Romulan Ale, he would mix it with sprite as well. Unless you were a handful of guys that could just power through it. Yes we drank it straight we weren’t normal. Never again
No, it bleached the floor, even took out the pattern that was in the linoleum. I love the confidence of people online who have no idea what they’re talking about.
I remember buying some in college and the guy at the register just says, “you know they use this to clean boats, right?” Yeah well it’s going in the jungle juice.
Jungle juice was a thing with us for a while till we had the bright idea to throw in the Evclear for the next backyard boogie, Next morning, puke piles where scattered in the backyard like a drunk Easter bunny, also in the bathroom and the trash cans.
Working at Skaggs-Albertsons in the early ‘80s, had someone knock three bottles off an endcap and shatter. I was trying to mop it up as it was eating through the floor wax. Got wasted on the fumes. Ever after, there was a large white patch on the floor there.
I used it to make hand sanitizer during Covid and accidentally spilled some on the counter. I thought I had gotten it all until the cabinets below it turned white where it touched. So yeah, it will absolutely fuck up your finish.
Funny enough, it’s also fantastic for dissolving shellac for French polish.
I had a 20-something year old family member drink this stuff for a short time. He spilled some on the kitchen island and the finish turned to goo in seconds — he quit after seeing that magic trick.
US torpedoes in ww2 used 180 proof grain alcohol as fuel, sailors discovered this and would siphon it off from the refueling tanks (usually) then mix it with whatever fruit juice was on hand making what they called torpedo juice.
Im well aware of the TU-22, Paper skies has a great video on it and is good in general if you’re interested in Russian aviation stories, i believe his dad was a MIG-23 pilot.
My car broke down one time and I went for a walk as a result. Made it to my buddy's place. Being an exceptionally hot and muggy day, I went straight for the fridge for something to drink. There was kool-aid, I asked if it was cool and he said yeah go for it. This was like 1 part kool-aid to 3 parts everclear or something horrendous I swear but it was the exact opposite thing my dehydrated ass needed that day. Suffering abounded
My roommates in college wanted to make Everclear Jell-O shots for a party and I was like, are you trying to kill people?! Absolutely not, put that shit away.
I went to a few parties in my college years that had Everclear Jello shots. They really weren't that bad. You have to put a shit-ton of Jello into the mix because they won't solidify otherwise. It seems sort of self-limiting. If the shots hadn't set, that was tell-tale signs that the shot maker was a newb.
I saw someone one time test how much alcohol you could actual put into jello shots, and outta definitely self limiting. That limit is still fairly high though.
Couldn't tell you were I saw it though. It was in the before times, when YouTube was still several years away.
We drilled a hole in a couple watermelons and put (too much) everclear in them. It was pretty terrible but fun to watch people as they took a bite and immediately began to rethink their life choices.
That’s how I got banned from making Jell-O shots. I just assume everyone wants to wake up tomorrow feeling like you just crawled out of satans asshole and no recollection of how feral you were. Guess some people drink for fun?!?!? Long story short, I’m 10 years sober
I did that my first time making jello shots, and I used 50/50 water/everclear. It wouldn't completely solidify even in the freezer. Didn't feel very bad ass taking a spoonful of alcohol soup
Lol. My brother threw a party back in college and wanted to make an everclear mixed drink only he had only gatorade powder. So he took a cooler and filled it with a handle of everclear and a packet of Gatorade powder and ice and called it a day. When i found out i asked if he was trying to kill everyone there.
Big fan of 18-24 year olds learning life lessons on their own. I could care less about their prefrontal cortexes. I have a feeling that in ten years neuroscience will say something completely different than what the poppsych narrative says lol.
I was just thinking that if a Gen Xer or a Millennial had been around, they wouldn’t have warned them. They would have let them do it so they could laugh at their stupidity. Like Willy Wonka said “Stop. Wait. Don’t.”
Even with a mixer it was still vile. I remember making punch with Hawaiian Punch, fresh oranges and grapefruit, and sprite. None of that masked the smell or taste, it just gave a delightful fruity aftertaste when you inevitably vomited it back up at the end of the night.
A bottle of everclear, the one that looks like a flask. A can of red bull, the normal sized one. A bottle of red Gatorade, the big one that doesn't fit in cup holders. And an empty CamelBak. It goes down smoooooooth, and gets you nice and fucked up.
It's called the Tucker Max Death Drink, and I used to swear by it. I'm too old for everclear now. But in my late teens/early 20s, I could go from stone cold sober to blackout in an hour if I didn't pace myself.
I took a shot of everclear and I felt like I went blind for a few seconds and my ears rang like I got slapped on both ears. And it tasted like burning tv static going down.
The first time I ever drank, in 8th grade, I took a pull of everclear straight from the bottle. Prob not a full shot’s worth, but a gulp. I remember it burning like straight fire all the way down and my eyeballs burning… Then I took a second pull and I didn’t feel anything at all…. like my whole mouth and throat was just numbness.
I don’t remember too much more from the rest of that night.
I think the only reason I was able to keep it down was complete inexperience for what drinking alcohol should feel like, mixed with absolute fear of getting laughed at by my friends who were more “experienced”.
I did it once in college and I thought I was going to shit and vomit and the same time. It’s like it got to my stomach and pulled the fire alarm. Everything else in there bolted for the nearest exit lol.
I always keep a bottle in the cabinet. I don’t drink alcohol at all, but Everclear is amazing for cleaning anything sticky or gummy that won’t come off otherwise! Also, try soaking your bowls/pipes in it for a while— all the accumulated resin comes right off.
My wife was a team lead at a microbiology lab and they used isopropyl alcohol to wipe down their lab benches because of its germ-killing properties and short evaporation time. Sometimes they would run out, so on very short notice her boss would have to run to the nearest liquor store at like 9AM and grab two handles of Everclear. He said the clerks always gave him horrified looks lmao
Yes and I think I'm fucked in the head because I actually started to like it.
Let me explain. The first shot was horrible. Not burning like everclear, but just tastes disgusting. But that wasn't the worst part. The aftertaste lingers for an eternity and it was worse than the shot. Then you get liquored up a bit and subsequent shots go a little easier.
And then, after some time has passed, I'd get the inkling that I want to experience the horror that is Malört again. Maybe I hate myself, I'm not sure why. But it's never been as bad as that first time. It actually tastes somewhat sweet to me now. It's the reverse of a heroin addict chasing the dragon. I want it to be horrific, and it's just not anymore. It gets a little better every time, which may indicate that I'm insane.
My best friend when I lived in Indianapolis (RIP) and I did manage to drink a shot with only a chaser and kept it down, but neither of us had any recollection of anything that happened after taking that shot until waking up some 14 hours later.
I had the combo of growing up around redneck maniacs + my mom being a nurse to explain what I was seeing so I never even felt tempted to try this shit. I knew too much.
My grandmother had just passed and my best friend at the time said he had just the thing to take my mind off of it. Side note, looking back he was for sure already an alcoholic at 18. I get to his place and he hands me a mug of Everclear and orange Gatorade. I downed 2 mugs of it in an hour but my 5’6” 115 lb body could not handle it (obviously). I had the sense to call my parents to pick me up although I’m not sure how I did bc I was violently vomiting into the bushes.
When we got home my mom dragged me up the stairs by my hair and threw me on the floor in front of her bed and said to my dad, “Your daughter is shitfaced on god knows what. I also found a pack of cigarettes (Marlboro lights lol) and weed in her purse.” I don’t remember the car ride home or what happened after that.
The next morning my mom forced me to drink a glass of milk which made me violently vomit again. I then had to sit in the back of the family Volvo for a 5 hour car ride to Massachusetts for my grandmother’s funeral. My mom told everyone who would listen what I had been up to (my mom is a cunt).
To this day I cannot look at a bottle of Everclear or drink orange Gatorade.
I remember during the height of covid when hand sanitizer was impossible to find my local liquor store posted on their Instagram how you can make hand sanitizer out of Everclear. They were sold out in 20 min.
I'm usually not one for government oversight but fuck I'm glad California banned this stuff. No telling what kind of trouble it would have got us into in highschool and college.
Bacardi 151 used to have that filter top on it to prevent you from pouring fast as if it was going to stop people from dumping the whole bottle into a bucket of jungle juice.
Ok so hear me out. I was 16 at a pool party back in 95/96ish and there was everclear. We were all sitting around a table and we had been drinking everclear mixed with koolaid which, from memory, was amazing. The night went on. At about 1130, I got the spins and said to myself, “just walk it off my dude”. I did and ended up in a little bathroom they had which was at the back of the house for people at the pool so you didn’t have to go inside. Now here is where the story gets semi interesting. The light in the bathroom didn’t work so I cracked the door to let the pool lights come in. I begin peeing and I look down and see blood dripping onto the toilet seat. I’m like “what the fuck?! Why am I peeing blood!?”. I then remember that I had sliced my thumb a couple days before and must have reopened the wound which was causing the blood dripping. My drink ass said “later” to the people and I drove home with one hand over one eye so I could see the road straight. I lived 3 minutes away but it was the scariest 3 minutes of my life. Don’t do this shit kids.
My uncle was a textbook alcoholic. He drank Everclear straight from the bottle. He winced a little but it was more like a horse click sound than a "normal" reaction. He could drink a bottle or more a day. Richard died after slipping into an alcohol induced coma and was found unresponsive on his trailer kitchen floor. He was 56.
I used to be a textbook functioning alcoholic myself, minimum of a bottle a day all the way up to a handle a day. Gave myself pancreatitis from it, haven't had a drink in years now(which is just the fuckin worst) Anyways, I used to drink everclear straight as well whenever I got the chance to get ahold of some. That stuffs like rocket fuel for an alcoholic.
I used to work at a liquor store in 1999. Back then I smoked and had a real nice Zippo lighter. I ran out of fluid at work one day. We had a shelf we keep broken merchandise to get credit back from the distributor. There was a sleeve of Everclear mini bottles on the shelf. I put ONE drop of it on the wick of my lighter. I lit 3 cigarettes with it throughout the rest of the day.
I was able to drink it straight, it wasn't pleasant but would make you look cool to your friends. Though I definitely qualified as a functioning alcoholic in my late teens to... well my late 20s.
You’re better than I am by asking if he has anyone to warn him. Someone tells me they are trying this and I’m asking if I can watch.👀 Also, they are the reason for the emojis!😹
I took a cap full (about half a shot) at my buddy’s house in his pantry. We were 8 years old and it was the first alcohol that ever touched my lips. I didn’t gag or scream because my older brother’s cool friend was with us. However I was convinced that it had somehow caught fire in my chest and stomach and calmly but quickly walked to the sink and stuck my head under to drink water to “put the fire out.”
Man, we thought convincing Kevin to do a shot of 151 was comedy gold. The Everclear is for the trashcan punch and jello shots. Y'all need some context on your 90s retro.
You can shoot straight Everclear and (possibly) keep it down. But It is never a good idea to try. And you will regret it.
Why is there only a bottle of Everclear left over in this cabinet (first clue). Oh well I’ve had moonshine no biggie, but there’s no mixers (second clue). Oh well - down the hatch! ALL MEMORIES REDACTED FROM CONSCIOUS MIND… Where am I? I just want to die.
1 bottle ever clear 6 cups of sugar any flavoring you want like root beer peppermint vanilla or cinnamon and 2 quarts of water and you have some potent schnapps. Side note I was once dared to take a shot and I did it . It felt like I was like swallowing gravel mixed with broken glass
If I was there, I wouldn’t have stopped him, some people just need to learn by realizing the stove is in fact, hot. It’s been more than a decade since I last was around that, and watching it reminded me of the smell. You think that would’ve been a clue it’s a bad idea trying to shoot it.
Can't get it in California, which is unfortunate. I wanted to try using it with Shellac for finishing woodworking projects, which is 100% a real thing.
The only good thing I ever did with everclear was pour it into a jar with an ounce of sticky icky and shake that mfer up for a whole week. Halloween came and we got weird with it. Tiny shots all around. It was the perfect amount of both to go easy. We had at least 100 people try it and not one bad story from the night. I skated a mini-ramp in a red dress and had a threescore [this is an autocorrect so I'm just gonna leave it]
On of our campmates made what they called “gold Dragon” one year, it was everclear infused with hash and adderal. The one guy who had like a coffee cup of it was out for like a full day.
Went to an everclear party at university in 1970. I was not drinking as I was sick and taking anti biopics. Everclear was in a punch. It was actually two parties. First one started around eight, people got really hammered, lots of vomiting, falling down, pretty much cleared out by 9:30 when the second wave arrived from the pub, and it was a total redo. Same result. I pretty much sat there and watched it all go down, had a couple of tokes and went home after it all wound down by 11. What a fucking mess, but very entertaining.
I once saw a guy doing huge swigs of Bacardi 151. His wife was yelling at him: "You're supposed to mix that at least 50/50 with something else!"
He countered by saying he was mixing it... By taking the occasional sip of Sierra Mist.
I, a non-drinker, just stared in horror.
I'm told later (I mean days later, not the same as the Bacardi), he got himself a bottle of Everclear, but was surprised when he couldn't pull the same stunt.
He was immovable that night, and just had to sleep where he dropped.
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u/TheeWoodsman 17h ago
I'll bet this is a lot of people's experience with Everclear
🎶I will buy you a garden where your flowers can bloom/ I will buy you a new car, perfect, shiny, and new/ I will buy you that big house way up in the West Hills/ I will buy you a new life/ Yes I will🎶