There is a way to drink Everclear straight without the burn. In my freshman year at college, a friend and I went to a home football game with a pint of Everclear. The plan was to add it to the Coke being sold by the vendors, so we would not bring undue attention to our drinking. The problem was that the Everclear ate thru the Styrofoam cups... Having had a couple of quarters of chemistry already, I knew that the burn from the grain alcohol comes from it taking the moisture out of any mucous membrane that it came into contact with. This is relatively tolerable, until you take a breath and then the burn really becomes noticeable. I reasoned that if I took a shot of the Everclear straight and held my breath until I could gulp down a Coke chaser to put some moisture back into my throat and mouth, and then took my next breath, that things would be OK. Well, it worked. It worked so well that by half time, all that we could tell for sure was that the field was green. That was my last experience with drinking store-bought white lightening. :rofl: