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Originally Posted by wetibbe
Meet the real, hard core boozers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectified_spirit
This is even a piker. Ours was 192 proof Polska.
My sons better half's family are original Polish from the old country.
Thanks giving day Papa poured his concoction, flavored spirits into a very small shot glass - liberally to everyone repeatedly !!!
Upon my second it really knocked my socks off before eating.
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So, what are the qualifications to be the holiday drunk uncle under those circumstances?
My ex wife's grandfather was an old school moonshiner who passed down a test for how much "kick" a batch had.
Set a spoonful of the shine on fire. If it has a small, blue flame and stays lighted all the way to the floor when tipped out of the spoon that's some good stuff.
I tried that once with some moonshine a friend brought back from Oklahoma, set my thumb on fire. No one told me I was supposed to do the test BEFORE sampling the stuff, didn't occur to me that I had sloshed some on myself. I bet a guy could set his house on fire doing that kind of thing.
The extended family did Thanksgiving a couple weeks early due to various timing conflicts on the actual day, just the two of us and one of the young grand kids on Thanksgiving. So, I brined a 6 lbs chicken and roasted it on a beer can and made minimal fixings.
Still a big plate full of chicken (could have just done a three pounder), but used up the last of the mashed potatoes this morning. Might make some rice and gravy to go along with the chicken tonight, and freeze or make a stew out of whatever leftovers there are tomorrow.
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