Devil's Breath Grain Alcohol

Devil's Breath Grain Alcohol is a 190-proof neutral grain spirit bottled at the maximum legal strength available for retail sale in the United States. At 95% alcohol by volume, this is rectified spirit in its purest commercial form — the same base distillate used by professional bartenders, liqueur producers, and tincture makers across Chicago and beyond. While most consumers know grain alcohol only as a college novelty, Devil's Breath occupies a serious place in craft cocktail programs and home infusion projects where maximum dilution control and flavor neutrality are required. This is a continuously distilled neutral spirit, run through column stills until nearly all congeners, fusel oils, and flavor compounds have been stripped away. The result is ethanol so clean it's used as a solvent, a preservative, and a canvas for infusion. Devil's Breath sources its base grain from American farms — typically corn, though the mash bill is irrelevant at this proof; after repeated distillation, no varietal character remains. The spirit is filtered and cut with water only to the 190-proof threshold, then bottled without aging or finishing. It is industrially pure but legally beverage-grade, straddling the line between laboratory reagent and cocktail ingredient. The liquid is clear, odorless, and burns cleanly with almost no residual flavor beyond raw ethanol heat. This is not meant for neat sipping — a single ounce at this proof is more than two standard drinks, and the burn is immediate and unforgiving. Devil's Breath is built for dilution: use it to make limoncello or nocino, infuse it with chilies or herbs, fortify a fruit liqueur, or proof up a cocktail where you need high ABV without added water. Home bartenders in Lincoln Park use grain alcohol to build their own aromatic bitters, extract vanilla, or create barrel-strength punch bases that won't dilute under ice. A quarter-ounce can lift the proof of a stirred Martini without changing its texture; a tablespoon can preserve a batch of shrub for months in the refrigerator. Devil's Breath Grain Alcohol is available for pickup at Off Premise Chicago, 1128 W Armitage Ave in Lincoln Park, with local Chicago delivery and nationwide shipping where regulations allow.