I like the E85 too!
The smell is good, not offensive, I think of it as some kind of cooking smell.

On methanol, my car used 1.5 gallons per run (I was stingy), with E85 it is 1.0, and with gas it was 0.7

I have seen some methanol setups burn tons of fuel, one guys says he uses 3 gallons per run!