Unless this is sugar soaked in alcohol to it's not possible to powerize alcohol.

Ethanol is a liquid all the way down to about -70 F (perhaps lower as it's been years since i played with alcohol and dry ice in the lab), at which point it becomes alcohol slush, then ice.

This has to be some sort of adsorbtion thing and i'd be really worried about the safety of the adsorbant. Unless it's just sugar and then the stuff would be good for making mai tais, slings or magaritas.
GAC

For what that's worth....

So, it's a moist cake of alcohol in a sugar like substance! Well, i was at least close.

Actually, i thought it was snake oil and was going to be even more outraged.

One patent on a process: http://www.google.com/patents/US3795747

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder

I looked but i must have framed my search criteria poorly.

Sounds horrible.

which has almost twice the alcohol content of Palcohol (190 to 50 proof). Weight savings would be gained if you decanted it from the glass bottle to a lightweight sports container.

Oh, don't forget to mark your lightweight container Caution!! Extremely Flammable- handle with care:

about every time even then.

Maybe it was mixing it with the Hawaiian Punch and fruit and drinking like 18 solo cups of it. lol

And anyone over 23 who actually drinks Purple Jesus gets exactly what they deserve.

Just keep it away from open flame or living tissue.

Although I did notice they now sell a wussy 151 proof version. Back in my college daze, one would be severely reprimanded if they made a run to Nevada without bringing back a bottle or two.

Purple Jesus contributed to my alma mater, Chico State, being ranked as the number one party school in the nation by Playboy in the seventies.

Us old farts rediscovered Everclear when we started making fine Limoncello. It's also a key ingredient in making a killer Kahlua knockoff.

I give it a week to have a higher death toll than marijuana, which is still illegal.

for anything as the list of things more dangerous than weed is practically infinite.

It is the number of things less harmful than pot that is tiny. Does water even meet muster there? I dunno.

Glad my kids are out of high school- This send like something very easy to abuse.

You can get distilled alcohol at very high purity. Having the alcohol encapsulated in a large organic molecule doesn't seem a very good way to get a high concentration of alcohol. Or to say it another way... it is way easier to poison yourself with alcohol already by simply drinking high proof alcohol.

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Selling boxes of grape concentrate was permitted, so grape growers produced those -- with a helpful warning on the label not to add water and store in a dark place!