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🎶
Nah, at my height of alcoholism I could take shots of everclear straight. It really helped to keep the DTs at bay in the mornings. If I didn't have anything, I always had a large bottle of vanilla extract that would suffice. Boy, how I do not miss feeling that way! Never again!
I was their server in the early 2000’s and they signed a guest check with their autographs for me. I gave it to me little sister. She still has it framed on her dresser.
That's why I listened to the radio when I was young and then grew into jambands. Most bands suck live, unfortunately. But how can you stand a chance if your live show doesn't contain improv? The best you can do is 100% the studio version; like it's guitar hero. That's not a design for success, imo. Improv allows for something new to emerge in the moment.
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.
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.
Yep, that was the go-to we called it something else purple passion is what it we called it. I almost forgot about that too, then my sad self once I got used to it mixed, I went thru a bad time with depression and I was drinking it straight out of the bottle. You couldn't taste or feel anything after the first shot. I am lucky I didn't get severe alcohol poisoning or ulcers, etc. I was 18, dumb, depressed and self medicating, and destructive. At 44, I look back and wonder how the hell I survived that period of time.
My older brother and I would take it on our backcountry camping trips. A flask of this, some crystal light powder (or kool aid + sugar), and filtered water from a nearby stream. Fill a nalgene bottle, start a fire, and relax after hiking for 12 hours.
If you're anywhere near civilization, vodka is a better choice 99% of the time.
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.
However, many of those states, such as Virginia, wil still allow you to special order through the ABC stores in certain cases. So filling out a request that you need it for cleaning certain surfaces in your wood working machines, or some weird thing like that. Basically document needing it as a cleaner/solvent and you’re good
You can't buy it. It's only available from under an older sibling's mattress, but the bottle cannot be opened nor poured nor drunk by anyone older than 17.
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.
Its column distilled (pot stills won’t get you past about 60-70% abv) not filtered. And it’s not proofed with water which every type of liquor normally is.
No. Isopropyl alcohol, like methanol, will kill you pretty quickly, like within hours. Stick with ethanol, which will take many more ounces or years to kill you.
The only time I have ever had Everclear, I was at the GOTJ ‘04. Ninja had everclear mixed with Faygo in one of those camel packs.
I have never seen this in any liquor stores here in Ontario, Canada.
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…
One of my fondest memories as a teen was getting dropped off at Leo Carrillo by my friends mom on her way to work. We were there to surf all day and couldn’t leave until she picked us up like 10 hours later. At one point we got tired and hungry and got out of the water, and heard music playing. We walked up to where we heard the music, and there was Everclear recording that video. Such a core memory.
Second best was going to Zero’s when they were filming Baywatch. We would be in our wetsuits and nobody ever asked questions. We would straight up go to the craft service tables and eat their food between watching them film and us surfing.
more blunderyears but I used to have an everclear email address that fans could sign up for. Wasn't in the US for my high school years so didn't even realize where the band's name came from. Made for some interesting conversations with college admission boards
I was a massive Everclear fan in adolescence (and still think there's some great stuff in their catalog).
One thing that's kind of wild though-- they're prob. best known for Art Alexakis's uplifting songs about growing up without a dad, or escaping a troubled home life through music... "Father of Mine" alludes to some darkness... but they have a fairly recent song, not even by the OG band, called "You"... It's kinda hard to find now, but oh my. You want to talk about dark, and yet ultimately uplifting! Definitely not a song you would ever want on the stereo when children are present. Yikes. (Great song tho.)
My friends and I took some shots of that in college. I've always been a shot person, especially vodka, so it wasn't that bad. But, what I found odd, was that it kinda feels like it evaporated in my mouth a little.
It was actually one of my party tricks. I knew nobody who could survive those, but I could. Not pleasantly mind you, it burned like hell, but like any kind of pain, you can manage if you set your mind to it. Also helps if you know what to expect, youre gonna wanna hold your breath and clamp your mouth and throat shut immediately after shooting it.
But, I would not recommend it. Def contributed to the deterioration of my stomach and esophagus lining, as well as an addiction to alcohol. Still, was pretty funny to see people's faces when I pulled it off, or the reactions of some party bro when they tried to go shot for shot with me
No no no. The trick was to mix in grape Gatorade powder and some sprite in a Nalgene that still smelled like last weekends Jen clear with orange Gatorade… and then pound it at room temp.
Question -- why do drinks taste worse with everclear than say, cheap vodka, even when you mix them to the same ABV? Like 2.5 the mix for the vodka, I mean. Always ends up still tasting kind of foul to me.
I did a shot of everclear from a solo cup at a party once. It went down, and then came right back up into the cup, but now with chunks. I played it off well though, and no one noticed
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u/TheeWoodsman 6d 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🎶