[Stones] bronze age ale

[Ric]

i used to work for a Pole - he used to drink 'Polish
Spirit', it was colourless like vodka but was about
120º proof

i think another use for it was as *paint stripper* :-o
lol ~ !

[sorry - this is getting decidedly o/t?]

Ric 


--- David Shugarts <David.Shugarts at AzimuthComm.com>
wrote:

> 
> 
> A couple of cultures that I know of have extremely
> toxic alcoholic
> beverages, treated basically as moonshine liquors.
> 
> In Sierra Leone, there was a drink called omele
> (spelling unsure) that would
> give you blue lips and then chap the skin right off
> your lips, depending on
> how much you had drunk.  (Trust me on this.) I never
> learned what it was
> made from.
> 
> In Ireland, there is a drink called poteen (or
> poitin), essentially a barley
> whiskey but distilled until it has almost no
> discernable flavor, just a
> massive toxicity (180 proof). I don't feel that a
> sane person drinks it. My
> experience with it was to taste it, and then put it
> away in case an Irish
> visitor appeared, already drunk enough not to care
> what I might offer.
> 
> Both of these rely on distilling, which might be
> posed as requiring
> metalwork, but if the general goal is understood, it
> could conceivably be
> done with clay vessels.
> 
> BTW, the legendary corn whiskey moonshine from the
> U.S. heartland, in West
> Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, is "powerful" but
> does not compare to
> omele or poteen. (It actually tastes like something
> or other.)
> 
> --Dave S.
>   Newtown, CT