Might have been feeding off the black top. They used to use alcohol candles to warm petroleum lamps for artic explorations cause oil needs to be warm to combust.

I have an alcohol stove for camping. I mainly use it as a hard warmer in cold weather till I get the big fire going.

Purple Jesus

I used to mix it with Fruitopia, had the odd effect of totally neutralizing the taste of ridiculously high abv drinks. Not sure they make that anymore. But it's very similar except not carbonated.

Everclear is also a pretty cool Texas band.