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91% alcohol question
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RRP
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Today while waiting to have a prescription filled I wandered around and was looking at the bottles of 91% alcohol which I know some people here like to use to start their egg. Do you use it with a paper towel just like the oil trick or squirt some straight onto the lump like we used to when using "charcoal lighter fluid"? Seemed sort of expensive for a fire starter or do you buy it some place other than a drug store so you can get a price break in larger quantity?
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I have used it with cotton balls. Works well.
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RRP said: Seemed sort of expensive for a fire starter or do you buy it some place other than a drug store so you can get a price break in larger quantity?"The pig is an amazing animal. You feed a pig an apple and it makes bacon. Let's see Michael Phelps do that" - Jim Gaffigan
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Well they would at least both burn......LBGE Katy (Houston) TX
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I've done both. A paper towel actually thru the bottom vent if I want a big fire fast, or douse the lump, wait a few minutes and toss in a kitchen match. Stand back. It's definitely effective. I use it mostly when traveling so I don't have to take a torch.
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I get mine from Jim Tom!Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax
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I used to just squirt some in a few places on the lump and toss in a match. Lately, I've been using a chimney and filling the chimney about half way with lump, then squirt some alcohol under the chimney and toss in a match. A bottle lasts a very long time and it lights very fast. 5-10 minutes in the chimney then I dump it and spread it around.
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Barry, Lancaster, PA -
Ron, that is available only in some states. The peeps in KY can get it, but here in OH you can't. Just ask for it by name at the liquor storeColumbus, Ohio--A Gasser filled with Matchlight and an Ugly Drum.
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And yes-that is some serious juice right there. Be careful with any application.Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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I have used a couple liter bottles of GREENHEAT which was a product of Africa which was supposedly 95% but in a gel form. It is no longer made. While it was easy to squirt on and colored so you could see where it landed it was hard to see when lit during the day as the flame was invisible! Will using this EverClear be the same way plus more explosive when first lit?
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WeberWho said:RRP said: Seemed sort of expensive for a fire starter or do you buy it some place other than a drug store so you can get a price break in larger quantity?They/Them
Morgantown, PA
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Just went to a special event in downtown Louisville, where by private invitation, we were allowed a private tour of Peerless Distillery a new bourbon making company that will use charred white oak for the storage of their Bourbon. Currently they are selling White Lightening, and will do so for the next three years, until they release their bourbon to the market. They will only fill 4 barrels per day. It will be of very high quality. The release will be limited, and many high rollers will be coming to town to pick up their barrells. The rest will be released to the poublic in small batch. The warehouse number will be 50."Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber
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@YukonRon Did you find out the grain bill?Large BGE - McDonald, PA
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@RedSkip 72% corn 18% rye, 10% barley. Is what I was told, they used the word "about" in front of each ingrediant. Puts it in the pack with other of rhe better bourbons."Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber
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They/Them
Morgantown, PA
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theyolksonyou said:
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Nice. Hooch to light an egg. I can do that. Lol....
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We can buy Everclear in the liquor store. It's not explosive when lit. It does burn hot though. They also sell this which is the same thing.
At 95% it is just ethyl alcohol and the little bit of water that is too hard to remove from the alcohol.Aledo, Texas
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KJ Jr.
Exodus 12:9 KJV
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My family had a bottle of that stuff when I was a teen. We tried to drink it and of course couldn't. My mom used it to make her own Baileys instead of using vodka. That baileys was better than the real stuff.
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RRP said:I have used a couple liter bottles of GREENHEAT which was a product of Africa which was supposedly 95% but in a gel form. It is no longer made. While it was easy to squirt on and colored so you could see where it landed it was hard to see when lit during the day as the flame was invisible! Will using this EverClear be the same way plus more explosive when first lit?
Alcohol flames are very hard to see, clear almost invisible flame to a very light blue color. If you are seeing a flame it is an impurity in the alcohol burning that you are seeing.Ova B.
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Toxarch said:We can buy Everclear in the liquor store. It's not explosive when lit. It does burn hot though. They also sell this which is the same thing.
At 95% it is just ethyl alcohol and the little bit of water that is too hard to remove from the alcohol.North Pittsburgh, PA
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Everclear is available in my state (VA) but you have to have a permit to buy it. Must be incredibly dangerous stuff.
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Does IA still have those ABC stores?
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RRP said:Does IA still have those ABC stores?
NW IA
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Brisket_Fanatic said:RRP said:Does IA still have those ABC stores?“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk
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