95% and yeah pretty much, every Polish shop in the country will sell it and most Eastern European shops sell it although if they're not actually Polish in the shop they might not know exactly what you're asking for unless you explain it.
I got this from an Eastern European shop 5 mins down the road owned/run by Turks (the Polish shop next door was closed) and he didn't know what I wanted when I asked for it by it's Polish name.......'Spirytus' (Spi-ri-tus).
Any proper Polish shop (usually says Polski Sklep outside but don't take that as gospel that Poles run it, lol) and you can ask for it by name no bother.
It's expensive though, this 200ml bottle cost £9.99 (fucking Turks!), if the Polish shop next door had been open at that time I would have got a 500ml bottle for about £18-£20.
For perspective a 500ml bottle in Poland is £7-£9 depending on the exchange rate at the time, any corner shop you walk in.
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Sometimes it comes labelled 96% (rarely) but there's no difference, it's all pure distilled Ethanol at the maximum 95.6% (ish).
If you want Ethanol that's higher than 95.6% you need to either A) add another chemical (
benzene,
cyclohexane, or
heptane) that attaches to the water and then distil that off leaving 'Absolute Ethanol' (which contains trace residues), or B) pour it through a molecular sieve to separate the water.
B) FTW.