Quality Chemical's Denatured Alcohol 200-Proof Ethyl Alcohol - for Cleaning, 1 Gallon Combo (128 oz.)

I purchased this to dissolve shellac flakes and it did a great job. I didn't use it to make Everclear so I can't attest to it's purity. But it seems just fine -- no reason to doubt its quality. The price wasn't too bad and the two free spray bottles were a nice bonus. A great option for those of us stuck out in the People's Republic of California where all solvents are evil.

No problems

So far it's been a good choice for my new shower. It was recommended by the manufacturer.

Love it for cleaning

Matt Eddy wrote that he didn’t make Everclear from this and I hope he was kidding. Methanol is toxic and is made from “everclear” by adding toxic substances (or messing up when distilling moonshine, apparently.) I don’t know what the initial impetus for “denaturing” ethanol was but there are a couple reasons I can think of for continuing the practice today. First off is purity. If the alcohol isn’t destined to be consumed the percentage of contaminants isn’t as much of a concern for industrial grade. (Reagent grade requires higher purity.) Second, ethanol destined to be sold as a beverage is taxed as liquor. I haven’t seen one in a long time but Everclear had or has a tax label. I don’t know if the food grade alcohol sold here has them but it would strike me as odd if it didn’t.Whatever you do, don’t drink methanol aka denatured alcohol. The classic warning against moonshine was that it could cause blindness - because it was contaminated in the same was as to denature it. I don’t know how likely it was or if that was a myth spread during Prohibition to keep people from buying it. If the label tells you it’s denatured you should probably believe it.I used to brew beer and was surprisingly good at it but I had a batch that was undrinkable because there were ketones. Alcohol can produce ketones under the wrong conditions. I’d brought some of the beer, in bottles to a party of non-brewers and when I realised the problem I tried to collect it before anyone could drink it. Unfortunately there were a couple people who insisted it tasted fine and didn’t want me to dump it. It’s not worth killing (even more) brain cells off by drinking ketones (or acetaldehyes) along with ethanol.