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* Subverted in one old ''[[Hagar the Horrible]]'' strip: told that "You gotta be tough to drink in this place" at the bar he's frequenting, Hagar downs something that creates the typical effects... but when he asks for a glass of water afterward, the bartender tells him, "That ''was'' a glass of our water!"
* In ''[[Nodwick]]'', we have "Skullwhomper Ale". The effects are rarely shown in the comic itself, but its consumption almost invariably leads to some sort of [[Noodle Incident]]. The destruction of the local tavern it is served in is a frequent component to these, and when a local Elven/Dwarven war takes over the town, the invaders end up classifying the ale as an incendiary weapon.
** Skullwhomper Ale was initially brewed by a dragon who ''did'' intend to use it as an incendiary weapon. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080920130928/http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-02-20 When it found out that people were stealing its concoction for drinking], it was so embarrassed that it gave Nodwick the recipe and completely gave up on its plan.
* The Kickapoo Joy Juice from ''[[Li'l Abner]]'', having been described as "more inflammable than jet fuel".
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* Graduate school chemists used to have a cheap way of making insta-gargle blasters. Take the pure ethyl alcohol jug from the lab, run it through a simple distillation to take out other alcohols, dilute with water and add some orange concentrate. The stuff was horrifically nasty and as strong as you felt like making it.
** [[Public Service Announcement]]: Drinking chemical-grade ethanol is extremely hazardous to your health, even in diluted form, as the last stage of purification to get rid of traces of water involves mixing it with benzene, the traces of which in the final product are '''extremely''' carcinogenic.
* During [https://web.archive.org/web/20120216232840/http://www.zug.com/scrawl/bar-drink/ this] pub-crawl a group go out seeking the worst drinks possible for entertainment value, including such horrors as "the bloody tampon" ... at one point the author appears to be summoning Cthulhu to come put him out of his misery. For bonus points, the Bloody Tampon was made up on the spot.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030095655/http://www.myscienceproject.org/j-shot.html This Experiment] in which the goal was to get as much alcohol in a Jello shot as possible. [
* A Mobile, Alabama bar serves a Long Island Iced Tea variant called "The Paralyzer", where the Coca-Cola is replaced with Everclear. Some refer to it as the [[Highlander]], because in the end, you will need only one.
** A standard LIIT is already stronger than most cocktails with equal parts vodka, tequila, white rum, gin, and Triple Sec. Though the liquor is diluted with lemon juice, gomme syrup, and coke, averaging out at a total of about 22% alcohol.
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* In York, there's a bar that used to sell a drink called the Hellshot, consisting of a shot of 89% absinthe and 88% vodka (or something). You had to sign a disclaimer before you had one. Needless to say, the authorities banned it. Five years later, the bar still advertises it as "BANNED" though, presumably for street cred. Another bar has a shelf marked "Dangerous" with all the stronger spirits.
** The components of the Hellshot are still legal individually, however. Cue [[Loophole Abuse]].
* In Dawson City, in Yukon Territory, Canada, there's a bar in the Downtown Hotel which serves a drink called the [
* "Kehlenschneider" ("throat-cutter") is a German 80% chili schnapps with a 400,000 Scoville rating.
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_16314_nectar-broke-worlds-5-worst-ways-to-get-drunk.html This Cracked article] details a few alcoholic nightmares that can be quite dangerous to one's health. The worst being changaa, a Kenyan concoction that can contain battery acid or jet fuel.
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