People. I’ll never understand them. Even being one does not seem to help.<\/p>\n
However, the chaps over at Vice Magazine <\/a>(warning: the magazine and the website are relentlessly naughty) have an occasional practical bent. One of their intrepid reporters obtained the necessary ingredients and with a few modifications (he used 192 Proof grain alcohol) he made a batch<\/a>.<\/p>\n How was it? Two quotes sum it all up:<\/p>\n The powder drunk creeps up on you, and sometime on the walk it kicked in. I went from mostly sober to buzzed to the kind of drunk where you already have a headache and can feel the hangover coming like a distant high-pitched whine.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n The headache was still present\u2014a throbbing pressure at my temples\u2014but the powder drunk was giving me a weird, out-of-body feeling. If you like headaches and gummed-up sinuses and numb, dissociative<\/em>\u00a0(sic) drunks, you’re going to go apeshit for powdered booze.<\/em><\/p>\n There you have it. The author notes that the stuff burned like Napalm, which may in fact be the killer application for the product–burning up in a fire.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is really the non-story that would not die. You may recall from such blog posts as\u00a0Powdered Alcohol: Some Dry Observations and\u00a0Further Observations on Powdered Booze, the faux product Palcohol made some headlines. People who did not understand organic chemistry were delighted by the idea that there was a magic powder that you could sprinkle … <\/p>\n![\"boozefire\"](\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/boozefire.jpg\")
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