Posted on 05/13/2017 3:20:24 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Do they sell grain alcohol in Minnesota? I looked up the laws for the state and it says no alcohols over 80% ABV. Everclear sells a version of their grain that is 75.5% so it is possible. I live in Spain but have neighbors visiting the Bloomington area who I could ask to bring some back when they return. I want to make some infused liqueurs and the strongest non-flavored alcohol they sell here is 40% Vodka. Perhaps some Minnesota Freeper can answer this question?
I’m in St Paul. You have to go to north or south Dakota. I use everclear for making nasal tobacco. luckily I have family in Bismarck area so I just pick up a bottle when back home
In my college organic chemistry class we had gallon jugs of pure (95%) ethanol for our experiments.
But the professor added hexane to it to prevent students from stealing it.
He warned the class: you'd really be sorry if you drank that!
Thank you. That was the definitive answer I was looking for. I'll use Vodka until I have friends or relatives coming from states that sell it.
I’d be real careful about buying alcohol from a pharmacy. I believe they add something to it to make it undrinkable or else everyone would buy cheap alcohol from the pharmacy to beat the tax man.
Pure grain alcohol from a pharmacy is not the cheap stuff. What makes you claim that? It’s fully taxed at the going rate. You might be confusing this with rubbing alcohol sold at US drug stores perhaps? Hey, it’s a pharmacy FGS, they’re not about to poison you if you tell them that you want pure grain alcohol.
But go ahead and con your friends into carrying a highly flammable substance - probably illegally - on an international flight. They might send you a Thank You note from prison...
No pharmacy "dispenses" pure ethanol.
Well, they might carry Everclear, if they have a liquor department.
Rubbing alcohol IS sold, but it's isopropyl alcohol.
Interestingly, isopropyl alcohol gets you drunk way faster than plain old ethanol, but it makes you deathly sick.
Even bums don't drink it for that reason.
They do in Europe. Hence my suggestion that the OP look there instead of going to great lengths to import it from the US.
Medicinal alcohol is typically denatured, especially in America. Ethanol, also called alcohol, ethyl alcohol, and drinking alcohol, is the principal type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages. Denatured alcohol, also called methylated spirits or denatured rectified spirit, is ethanol that has additives to make it poisonous, bad tasting, foul smelling or nauseating, to discourage recreational consumption. In some cases it is also dyed.
I have posted on a forum I belong to for the city of Madrid to see if anyone there can confirm that pharmacies in Spain sell pure, unadulterated grain alcohol but I'm not going to take any one person's word for it. You're one person. If someone from Madrid confirms it also then I'll check it out. But you have to understand to an American, drinking alcohol from a pharmacy is signing your own death warrant.
Well, just go and ask the pharmacist whether it is “safe” (to you) alcohol. Or not. I don’t really care either way. I was just trying to give you a helpful pointer.
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