mine smells weird and i am not getting drunk off of it. So what does that mean?
If it’s not tightly capped, the alcohol, with it’s lower boiling point and higher vapor pressure, will evaporate at a faster rate than the water.
Perhaps the alcohol evaporated away and you’re left with flavored water?
Usually hard liquer is too alcoholic to promote vinegar making microbes and doesn’t go bad unless it’s been exposed to way too much sunlight. If it’s an unreputable brand it might have a lot of fusel oil in it, but that’s pretty uncommon. Not getting drunk off of it that could mean that the alcohol had evaporated leaving crummy watery stuff.
If you have a slippery roomate or teenaged boy in the house who might have snaffled some on the sly and left tea (or worse) in it’s place to make up the difference in the bottle?
it means chug it
My first thought on seeing the title was “who leaves it around long enough to find out?”
My second thought was the the old mini-bar trick as mentioned by Inky:-
I still vote you chug it like a caveman
You’re not the one who pee’d in Clarky’s whisky, are you?:dubious:
This looks like a pretty classic case of whiskey going bad. 
Have you considered testing if it’s flammable (to see if there’s the normal amount of alcohol in it)?
I have some miniatures from the early 70’s and they work just fine. I asked about the same thing here and the answers all seemed to say go for it - no problems from drinking it although one of about 20 that I sampled did smell funny so I tossed just the one.
i know little about alcohol the chemistry of ethanol/alcohol, i was just wondering if there was a risk it had converted to methanol.
It has been exposed to alot of sunlight though. i leave the plastic bottle on top of the microwave in front of the window.
Jolly Ranchers would be good with a “white liquor” like vodka, if it was not too overpowering, (from other story).
I would think for booze to go bad, it would take years and years if the bottle was screwed on tight. Of course, a bottle does not last long with me, and even for a “normal and temperate drinker”, a fifth should have a shelf life of over a year or so.
Is not alcohol and sugar in the same family?
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