eon_blue
Bluelighter
Everclear is illegal in the state of California, but a friend of mine smuggled some in from Oregon a little while ago...good stuff. 

I don't buy it. 4-6% maybe... but you're not getting up to 40-60% without a still. Alcohol is actually toxic to brewing yeast. It's their bodily waste.. their piss... after all. Most strains die at around 8-10% concentration. The Samuel Adams company has, over many years of selective breeding, developed a strain that can tolerate... just barely... 25%. And as far as I know, that's still the world record.
I don't doubt the ingenuity of prisoners. But we're talking about basic chemistry and biology here. And they're not about to beat professional brewers at their own game.
cya,
john
its impossible for it to be stronger than everclear because everclear is basically 100% alcohol. well, 95% to be exact but if i recall correctly that's because you can't get any higher than that through traditional distilling. lab grade alcohol is the only alcohol that approaches 100% and even then, for drinking purposes its only marginally stronger than everclear. its basically the same thing.