Submitted by Chase_The_Dream t3_10nn24o in explainlikeimfive
jrp55262 t1_j6b17xm wrote
Reply to comment by Justeserm in eli5: Why does cheap alcohol taste worse than nicer alcohol? by Chase_The_Dream
Are you drinking Everclear straight? Got your liver transplant lined up already?
The thing about the azeotrope mixture at 95% ABV is that at that point alcohol and water have exactly the same vapor point. You could distill that stuff 100 times and not get any higher alcohol concentration. There are various tricks that are used to push past this barrier, but they either require exotic equipment (vacuum swing distillation) or can leave undesired residues (benzene addition)
Justeserm t1_j6bgeat wrote
God, no. I like drinking it because it has like no taste and I only have to use a little.
From what I read, acetone can be dried by baking Epsom salt (magnesium sulfate?) to dry it and then adding acetone. I think then it's supposed to be frozen and the acetone can be poured off the top. I was thinking of trying it with ethanol, but using a natural salt that forms a hydrate and (hopefully) isn't a laxative, not that it should dissolve.
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