I'm contractually obliged to tell you
that 90% proof isn't really very strong at all. About the same as a bottle of Tanqueray from any supermarket.

So therefore I'm also obliged to tell you you're an extraordinary screaming booze Mary.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 8:56, 2 replies)

I reckon she meant abv and not proof, but if that were true she'd likely have ended up in hospital.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 9:00, closed)

There's no such thing as 90% ABV gin. Or rather, it wouldn't be gin, it would have almost no gin flavour
In fact anything much over 90% ABV is impossible to make, due to the azeotropic nature of a water/ethanol mix.

the only thing that you can get over 90% ABV is Everclear, to my knowledge.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 9:03, closed)

Sounds counterfeit to me, ethanol has an almond smell, dangerous shit!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 9:28, closed)

So this is all nonsense then?

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:17, closed)

nah, I'm just sayin, people get handed a drink and told it's 90% or 100% proof
and think "fuck, that's well strong" when it's basically just the same as boggo whisky or gin.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:42, closed)

my friend bought it in the philippines for about £1
i think it's a pretty safe bet that it was boggo
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:45, closed)

It was piss.
Actual, urine from a bladder, piss. You fell for the power of suggestion. And drank piss.
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 14:35, closed)

Not quite.
Here in Blighty, at least, "100% proof" equates to about 57% ABV, which is a bit stronger than most people will be used to, since most spirits that are easy to get hold of are around 40% ABV.

Merkins define it differently, being mostly shandy-drinkers and temperance victims, so "100% proof" is only 50% ABV.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 22 Aug 2013, 12:13, closed)

I tried Everclear in the US.
It's evil.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:25, closed)

Yeah I tried that shit in a Mexican resteraunt
I think it was in a blue margarita, all my US colleagues brought their wives out to meet these so called classy Brits to be greeted by me and my French colleage having a full on argument.....I was trying to stop him drive, so can take the moral high ground, as the french fool had downed two of these drinks (equivelent to 10 pints in 2hrs)Worst hangover ever!!
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:34, closed)

They put it in stuff so you can't taste it, thank fuck.
But it creeps up on you quickly and BAM.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:38, closed)

Oh yeah!
From sober to drunk in break neck speed.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 14:30, closed)

I just fundamentally don't get the point
you're going to have to mix it with something to drink it, so why not just use vodka and proportionally less mixer?

Worst I've ever drunk is 154 overproof Barbadian rum, which is about 77% ABV. Neat and warm, and I was sober. My body then spent the next 30 mins desperately trying to think of inventive ways to remove this thing from it as it had rightly identified it as poison.

Oddly, in a long drink it were gert lush.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:51, closed)

yeah, those five tonnes of 96% alcohol and three pallet loads of 100% alcohol we have at work are a figment of our collective imaginations

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 21 Aug 2013, 22:19, closed)

i was an 18 year old girl at the time
i really hope i was!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 20 Aug 2013, 13:46, closed)