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1st March 06, 07:38 AM
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 184 Proof
Did anyone else read about the scottish distillery "Bruichladdich" that is going to distill a 184 proof whisky? Whew...cough, cough....Smooooth... Wheeze!
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1st March 06, 07:59 AM
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What is the remaining 8% ?
Mark Dockendorf
Left on the Right Coast
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1st March 06, 08:04 AM
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1st March 06, 08:47 AM
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184 proof is very close to pure grain alcohol. Due to the chemical properties of Ethanol (grain) you cannot get 100% pure alcohol by distillation. At somewhere around 95% the Water is boiled off with the alcohol, giving 190 proof. However, you can make 100% (200 proof) Ethanol by chemical reaction. The lab at the chemical plant where I worked as an Instrument Tech had that grade, but it was kept under lock and key. Anyone who had reason to go into that storeroom had to sign in and out. At 184 proof, the remainder would be water with some flavoring elements added.
"A day spent in the fields and woods, or on the water should not count as a day off our allotted number upon this earth."
Jerry, Kilted Old Fart.
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1st March 06, 09:59 AM
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Yes, that 200 proof is used extensively in research hospitals. I wonder what kind of research those hospitals are into...?
Chris. :confused:
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1st March 06, 10:06 AM
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Last time I had grain alcohol was about 10 years ago. Some friends had a big party and dumped fruit into the alcohol to flavor it. Being the dummy that I was I started eating the fruit thinking that I wouldn't get drunk....
Hoo boy was I wrong...
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1st March 06, 10:08 AM
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The only time I had grain alcohol was in college (where else). They had mixed it with Hawaiian Punch and that's what it tasted like. I was sitting there drinking glasses of the punch and others kept refilling the glass. Finally, I had to get up to refill my glass and the legs just didn't want to cooperate.
That's the same night I slid UP the stairwell.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. - Japanese Proverb
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1st March 06, 10:38 AM
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184 proof whiskey.....good for shining chrome, removing tarnish from copper, silver and brass. As a matter of fact, it cleans EVERYWHERE it goes 
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1st March 06, 10:52 AM
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 Originally Posted by TimC
184 proof whiskey.....good for shining chrome, removing tarnish from copper, silver and brass. As a matter of fact, it cleans EVERYWHERE it goes
A friend had a similar 'cleansing' experience with 150 proof rum i had brought in while at college ...
I hate to think of what 184 proof would do....
ITS A KILT, G** D*** IT!
WARNING: I RUN WITH SCISSORS
“I asked Mom if I was a gifted child… she said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me."
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1st March 06, 12:47 PM
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Part of photorestoration involves cleaning daguerrotypes and some other old photos on glass or metal with grain alcohol (the over the counter stuff...not from the chemical supply house).
Best
AA
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