and avoid Slivovitz, a Serbian plum brandy. Harsh and foul.
Grappa & witblits
Many years ago after a breakup, I headed south to Juarez, MX to drown my sorrows. After several hours and multiple libations, I found myself in a rather discrete watering hole away from the usual tourist traps. I asked for a shot of tequila and the bar tender laughed and said she could sense my pain. She reached under the bar and pulled a bottle out with a brown liquid, what appeared to be cigarette butts floating on top, and no label. I was leery drinking such a foul looking liquid so she poured herself a shot and knocked it back. Seeing no ill effects, I took a shot. Didn’t taste horrible, stood up, and don’t remember the next two days. Luckily I was with my friend who got me home. He said I kept mumbling about elephants.
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Grappa & witblits
My neighbor was an advisor in the early days of the Vietnam War. When he got to Saigon, nothing was ready for him, so he just had a good time in the local bars. Beer was super cheap, and he was young and thirsty. Then he started having real problems with severe headaches and such. The doctor arrived and he went to see him. Doc asked what he'd been drinking and he told him about this cheap beer. The doc told him to lay off of that because the Vietnamese put formaldehyde in it as a cheap way to make it stronger. The formaldehyde was what was making him sick.
I once knew an Italian from Tuscany, who worked for me at the Installation Motor Pool in BRD, who made grappa at home, using "leftovers", i.e., skins, pulp & seeds from a small local winery.
I thought that his homemade product was VERY GOOD.
Wishing that i had been smart enough to ask him for his family recipe!!
yours, satx
2. Learned the difference between good and bad vodka drinking with members of the Uzbek army.
A Brita water filter does better than coffee filters.I watch a video once that claimed running cheap vodka thru several coffee filters actually does wonders.
Another run thru the still never hurts eitherA Brita water filter does better than coffee filters.
Seems like they that in Japan when I was in the Navy in the 80s. I recall the command telling everyone not to drink it because it contained opium and you'd fail your next whiz quiz.Real absinthe