1. An industrial alcohol and an excellent-quality vinegar is also obtained from maguey.

2. Another by-product, molasses, is used as stock food or as a raw material in the distillation of rum and industrial alcohol.

3. Ethanol was used as lamp fuel in the United States as early as 1840, but a tax levied on industrial alcohol during the Civil War made this use uneconomical.

4. Analysis of 30 commercial and 19 artisanal samples respectively obtained for a survey of Anisated grape distillates constituents in Lebanon revealed the absence of ethyl acetate, isobutanol, butanol, amyl, and isoamyl alcohols in 10 commercial samples produced by manufacturers of high proof industrial alcohol.