Everclear

According to the manufacturer, Everclear "should be viewed as an unfinished ingredient", not consumed directly in undiluted form, and the company acknowledges that the product "has a rather notorious reputation" due to its high alcohol content. Rather than consuming Everclear directly, the company says it should be diluted by mixing it with water or other ingredients until the alcohol strength of the drink is "no more dangerous than other spirits or liqueurs on the shelf". For example, ordinary vodka, gin, rum and tequila have an alcohol concentration typically around 40% alcohol by volume (80 proof), and liqueurs are typically around 20% alcohol (40 proof).{{cite web |title=FAQ page |url=http://www.makeityourown.com/faq |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220141459/http://www.makeityourown.com/faq |archive-date=December 20, 2018 |access-date=November 9, 2017 |website=Everclear official website}}

Everclear is also used as a household "food-grade" cleaner, disinfectant, or stove fuel alcohol because its fumes and odor are less offensive than isopropyl, rubbing, and denatured alcohol which are toxic to breathe or drink. Everclear is also used for extracting flavor from other ingredients to make infusions and tinctures because of its neutral flavor profile.

Luxco also manufactures two other brands, Golden Grain alcohol and Crystal Clear alcohol, as essentially the same spirit with a different brand name.{{cite web |url=https://www.luxco.com/beverage-category/neutral-spirits/ |title=Neutral Spirits |website=Luxco official website |access-date=November 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171110004943/https://www.luxco.com/beverage-category/neutral-spirits/ |archive-date=November 10, 2017 |url-status=dead }} Several other brands of grain neutral spirits are also available on the market from other companies.

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Ethanol cannot be concentrated by ordinary distillation to greater than 97.2% by volume (95.6% by weight), because at that concentration, the vapor has the same ratio of water to alcohol as the liquid, a phenomenon known as azeotropy.95.6% according to 49th edition of CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. Perry's Handbook gives 10.57 mole percent water, which is 95.58 weight percent. The 190-proof variant of Everclear is 92.4% ethanol by weight and is thus produced at approximately the practical limit of distillation purity.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Some U.S. states impose limits on maximum alcohol content, or have other restrictions that prohibit the sale of the 190-proof variant of Everclear, and several of those also effectively prohibit lower-proof Everclear.{{cite web| publisher=United States Department of Health and Human Services - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration| date=2022| title=Report to Congress on the prevention and reduction of underage drinking - Policy summary: High-proof grain alcoholic beverages| url=https://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov/media/ReportToCongress/2022/profile_summaries/high_proof_grain_alcoholic_beverages.pdf| access-date=19 March 2025}}{{cite web |author=Danae King |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-grain-alcohol-illegal-tuesday-20140630-story.html |title=Laws including high-proof grain alcohol ban take effect Tuesday |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=30 June 2014 |access-date=22 December 2018 |archive-date=23 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181223120929/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-grain-alcohol-illegal-tuesday-20140630-story.html |url-status=dead }}

• American rock band Everclear is named after the spirit. "Pure White Evil", a nickname for the drink coined by the band's singer/guitarist Art Alexakis, was the original working title for their album So Much for the Afterglow.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
• It also features in the film Dr. Strangelove, in which General Jack Ripper drinks only grain alcohol and rain water.{{Cite web |last=Kubrick |first=Stanley |last2=Southern |first2=Terry |date=November 7, 2024 |title=Dr. Strangelove |url=https://www.archiviokubrick.it/opere/film/ds/script/ds-script.pdf |access-date=November 7, 2024 |website=Archivio Rubrick |page=28}}
• Texan rapper Bushwick Bill has a song titled “Ever So Clear” in which he describes the consequences of his abuse of the beverage.{{Cite web |last=Wyman |first=Bill |date=1992-09-24 |title=An Eye for a Truth: Bushwick Bill in extremis/Turn Down That Damn Music! |url=http://chicagoreader.com/music/an-eye-for-a-truth-bushwick-bill-in-extremis-turn-down-that-damn-music/ |access-date=2025-06-12 |website=Chicago Reader |language=en-US}}

• Ethanol (ethyl alcohol, drinking alcohol)
• Liquor
• Denatured alcohol

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Category:Neutral grain spirits

Category:Products introduced in 1922