Ever tried 'the hard stuff'?

Well you've a use for the spud skins now.
Just think of it as recycling.
 
OhioTom76 said:
You can get "moonshine" at most liquor stores these days, there are a variety of brands available. I've had both the home made and commercial versions and wasn't really crazy about either to be honest. Neither were particularly strong relative to your standard bottle of booze. However, with regards to the home made stuff, that could have simply been a result of them diluting it to a safe enough level to drink when bottling it. I'm not saying all home made moonshine isn't strong, it can certainly be made so, I just personally haven't had any.

Regular commercially available liquor at 80 or 100 proof is plenty strong, I don't really see the appeal of trying to find something stronger to drink.

My grandparents used to make their own wine when I was younger, aka "dago red", which was usually a bit stronger than your typical bottled wine, but again, much of that is a lot of folklore and embellishment. They didn't make their own wine because of some love of wine making, they did it to save money (they lived middle-lower class).
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Wine and spirit [moonshine] are very different - moonshine is distilled - wine is simply fermented. There is a limit to the possible strength of wine as the alcohol eventually kills off the yeast that is producing it [brandy, which is stronger for example is a fortified wine ie it has alcohol added to it. Distilling is a continuation of the process and involves heating up the brew and condensing out the resultant vapours thus taking the alcohol level much higher. Both commercial and I suspect 'other' spirit must be diluted and would be pretty unusable straight from the still
I must admit I am surprised that no-one seems to have a working opinion of their 'local' brew some of which must have histories going back almost as far [if not farther than] as the 'real' stuff.
 
I have tried distilled spirit in Norway we would burn it first to ensue it was ok to drink I only drank it out of respect of my hosts and also beware of the pootcheen I have seen a chap temporary blinded for over a month after a drinking completion on the stuff
 
sidevalve said:
Wine and spirit [moonshine] are very different - moonshine is distilled - wine is simply fermented. There is a limit to the possible strength of wine as the alcohol eventually kills off the yeast that is producing it [brandy, which is stronger for example is a fortified wine ie it has alcohol added to it. Distilling is a continuation of the process and involves heating up the brew and condensing out the resultant vapours thus taking the alcohol level much higher. Both commercial and I suspect 'other' spirit must be diluted and would be pretty unusable straight from the still
I must admit I am surprised that no-one seems to have a working opinion of their 'local' brew some of which must have histories going back almost as far [if not farther than] as the 'real' stuff.
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Local brew was Websters, now gone. After that, two micro breweries and a "mobile" one.
Then onto Leeds & Tetley.
 
classic33 said:
Local brew was Websters, now gone. After that, two micro breweries and a "mobile" one.
Then onto Leeds & Tetley.
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Websters - I remember having that in Halifax in around 1986. The brewery was owned by the dreaded Watney's at that time. Courage bought it later on and then shut the place down (the brewery, not Halifax). I can't say I liked the beer much, but beers brewed under the flags of the big nationals at the time were rarely much to get excited about.
 
Duck59 said:
Websters - I remember having that in Halifax in around 1986. The brewery was owned by the dreaded Watney's at that time. Courage bought it later on and then shut the place down (the brewery, not Halifax). I can't say I liked the beer much, but beers brewed under the flags of the big nationals at the time were rarely much to get excited about.
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Scottish and Newcastle were the last owners. And from where I am now, I can see the site. Or would be able if the fog cleared.
 
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