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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.

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.