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2 butanol (18ml) - 3rd time - NOT 2m2b

Chucknutter

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Recently I've been looking into novel alcohols to try. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get my hands on 2m2b and my choice of solvents was quite slim. After researching my tiny choice of alcohols I figured 2 butanol would be the alcohol for me to try. I tried it twice before hand, once with a couple of mls as a test(undocumented unfortunately) and once with 6ml. The following is my experience with 18ml 2 butanol:

19:06 : I have prepared myself a cocktail of 6ml 2 butanol, coke, and lime. Tastes solventy but not overpoweringly so. I’ll probably drink it fairly fast.
19:16 : I enjoyed my drink for a far longer time than I thought I would. It tastes solventy, not unlike alcohol yet distinct from it. It makes you feel nice and warm as though you’re having a high ethanol content drink. I’m having a lot of lightheadedness, although I’d chalk that up to placebo as I usually get lightheaded before my first drink even has the chance to kick in.
19:30 : That definitely wasn’t placebo. It’s very strange that it hit me that hard as this is my third time having 2 butanol and it hasn’t hit me that hard before. I tipsily went out and grabbed some fresh mint, came inside and made myself a mojito using 6ml 2 butanol instead of 60ml rum. It tastes nice and refreshing. So far the butanols effects are extremely ethanol like.
19:40 : Put on some pizza and while doing so, discovered some garlic bread, I’m excited!
19:49 : Finished my drink. I am already drunk. Very surprising considering it took far more before. I feel nice and warm with no anxieties. Indistinguishable from ethanol apart from the fact that I’m drunk off two drinks and my breath smells and tastes sort of solventy. First time I had 2 butanol I thought it was slightly different from ethanol. Time will tell when I use it again I suppose.
19:52 : Ok, nevermind. This is definitely not ethanol. There’s a ringing in my ears and a definite psychedelic/dissociative thing happening. I’m enjoying it. I’m not so fucked up that I cant have more. I’ll have another one soon enough
19:59 : Just invited some friends over, let’s hope they’re able to come. Definitely more like ethanol than any other drug I’ve tried, a lot of effects you’d get when drunk such as poor coordination and the like. Some feelings of dissociation which are cool
20:07 : Having another drink
20:37 : Have been drinking incredibly slowly. I feel quite drunk now. The negative effects such as uncoordination and blurry vision are quite prevalent yet there isn’t a huge amount of mental cloudiness. This experience has been far from negative so far.
20:53 : Still haven’t finished my drink as I feel quite drunk. As opposed to the mental cloudiness of ethanol, I feel a sort of mental wall. It takes more effort to break but after breaking down the wall, thoughts seem to come more easily than they do with ethanol.
22:25 : One of my friends came over, we chilled for a while. Feeling mega fucked up. Too fucked up. Nausea and no vomiting(so far anyway). Really want to sleep. 2 butanol taste quite strong compared to before. Only had three drinks yet there seems to be no sign of it subsiding, probably has longer half life than ethanol
11:22 : It’s the next day. I’ve woken up with a mild hangover. Feel extremely minor intoxication still along with more drowsiness than usual. Mild headache because I drank far too little water. Can’t wait for a coffee

I must say that the uncoordination was immense with this substance, even more so than ethanol. It was far more difficult to control my body than my mind.
The cool dissociative effect only lasted a few moments and went away after I wrote it down, bummer :(

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Thanks for the report. I can't find much on recreational use of 2-butanol, in fact this is the first I've heard of it. I've had 2m2b before, is it similar? I didn't really like 2m2b very much, it lasts way too long and is less euphoric than ethanol, although ethanol is more mentally intoxicating which can be a negative, and also more toxic.
 
Thanks for the report. I can't find much on recreational use of 2-butanol, in fact this is the first I've heard of it. I've had 2m2b before, is it similar? I didn't really like 2m2b very much, it lasts way too long and is less euphoric than ethanol, although ethanol is more mentally intoxicating which can be a negative, and also more toxic.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to get my hands on 2m2b yet. I can say that 2 butanol was very similar to alcohol but much more physically intoxicating. My mind was relatively clear yet when I hit my knee against the table, it barely hurt at all.
Like 2m2b, butanol seems to be less mentally intoxicating, but it makes up for it by having you stumble around (based on this experiment).
 
Some of the exotic alcohols are quite nice. 1-Propanol was a much more clear headed ethanol feeling in lower doses and highly intoxicating at high doses. No hangover either. Penatol was quite nice as well. 1-ehtnylcylcohexanol was extremely nice.
I was thinking of trying 1 propanol as it is one of the few solvents I can get. One of the reasons I haven't is that someone here on bluelight mentioned something about propionic acid being harsh on your body, although I haven't looked into it myself.
Does it feel the same as isopropanol or are there any advantages to getting 1 propanol instead of iso?
 
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I never really tried to really.get drunk on iso. In dire times I used it as a solvent for.volumetric measurements and could feel slight effect.from it but I kept it rather low. So it'd be a bit hard to truly speculate but IME they all had slight variations in effect at least in some way. Others being more.unique then others.
 
I never really tried to really.get drunk on iso. In dire times I used it as a solvent for.volumetric measurements and could feel slight effect.from it but I kept it rather low. So it'd be a bit hard to truly speculate but IME they all had slight variations in effect at least in some way. Others being more.unique then others.
Alright then, maybe I'll try 1 propanol some time. I'd like to try lots of different alcohols but it'll probably take me a while to get around to trying the others.
Without stating sources, how hard was it to get the 1 ethynylcyclohexanol? Were you able to use standard websites or did you have to use something else?
 
2m2b is also more physically intoxicating and less mentally intoxicating than alcohol, but it lasts for like 12 hours. Also it tastes horrific. 2m2b isn't overly physically intoxicating, sounds like 2-b might be moreso but hard to say since I haven't tried it (and don't plan, nor plan to get any 2m2b again).

About 1-propanol, I have no idea. I hope you're researching these in terms of metabolic by-products before you do them as some alcohols can have really nasty and toxic metabolites... obviously most famously (and probably worst), methanol, which produces formaldehyde and quickly blinds and kills you and does massive organ damage. Ethanol produces acetaldehyde which also does organ damage but nowhere near as bad as formaldehyde. You have to be really careful with solvents because they can produce fucked up metabolites. Isopropanol is substantially more toxic than ethanol but less so than methanol, I forget what it produces. You should never be drinking isopropanol.

A quick search on 1-propanol says that it appears to be of similar toxicity to ethanol but more neurotoxic. I really can't recommend you try it. I found more evidence of 1-propanol being toxic than 2-butanol for sure.
 
2m2b is also more physically intoxicating and less mentally intoxicating than alcohol, but it lasts for like 12 hours. Also it tastes horrific. 2m2b isn't overly physically intoxicating, sounds like 2-b might be moreso but hard to say since I haven't tried it (and don't plan, nor plan to get any 2m2b again).

About 1-propanol, I have no idea. I hope you're researching these in terms of metabolic by-products before you do them as some alcohols can have really nasty and toxic metabolites... obviously most famously (and probably worst), methanol, which produces formaldehyde and quickly blinds and kills you and does massive organ damage. Ethanol produces acetaldehyde which also does organ damage but nowhere near as bad as formaldehyde. You have to be really careful with solvents because they can produce fucked up metabolites. Isopropanol is substantially more toxic than ethanol but less so than methanol, I forget what it produces. You should never be drinking isopropanol.

A quick search on 1-propanol says that it appears to be of similar toxicity to ethanol but more neurotoxic. I really can't recommend you try it. I found more evidence of 1-propanol being toxic than 2-butanol for sure.
Yeah, I've been looking into their metabolites to make sure. 2 butanols metabolites didn't seem super toxic nor carcinogenic from what I've seen, however I could have overlooked something. I have yet to even research propanol really but if I were ever to try another alcohol, I'd put a lot of research in.
I didn't realise 2m2b was more physically intoxicating, maybe it is quite similar to 2-b.
Isopropanol converts to acetone btw. Surprisingly well tolerated by the body, but leaves a bitch of a hangover apparently. I don't really plan on trying it
 
Hmmm well it used to be easier then I just found a supplier who didn't care as long as I paid for it. You just have too look around.
I think I will look around at some point. 2 butanol is fun enough but I think I'd like a better GABAergic. Plus it metabolises into methyl ethyl ketone which, like acetone, is surprisingly well tolerated but I'd rather a different metabolite tbh
 
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