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[Jopax]

I have been mostly on beer lately, it's cheap and gets the job mostly done, other than that there are always strong alcohols that are made out of everything around these parts and are even cheaper (but i have some baaaad expiriences with those so i'm steering clear for now).

And this week should be interesting to say the least, there is a big concert on wendsday, then there is this small festival for two days after that in the same place and on saturday i have a friends birthday and another big gig with many bands coming up, quite an ending to the month i must say

[nenjin]

I'm drinking 1554 right now. For a label that went totally commercial years ago, New Belgium still makes some tasty beer by and large.

[Jopax]

Also, you guys don't know cheap, the Balkans are generally known for being cheap when it comes to both booze and cigarettes.We have cheap beer that goes for 1 euro for two liters, and it's not all that terrible mind you, just don't drink four liters and jump around, you won't feel very good.

Then we have these homemade distilled drinks that are made from anything and everything, strong as if not stronger than vodka, burns both your brain and liver.

[nenjin]

We got that too, it's called moonshine here. Only it's illegal to sell it. If it's legally made and government certified, it ain't moonshine.

We like to joke that drinking it can make you go blind. Except we're not joking.

[Vault]

If you're lucky the blindness is only temporary... is that due to massive alcohol content or people tending to use things living organisms were never intended to ingest to speed the aging process?

I've got myself a dry martini; a very dry martini. A very dry, arrid, barren, desiccated, veritable dustbowel of a martini. A martini that could be declared a disaster area... that is what I'm drinking.

[Bauglir]

The blindness is due to methanol, a side product of fermentation that's concentrated by certain methods of distillation (it's usually not concentrated enough to cause problems otherwise). Also, most of the other methods run a large risk of getting you falsely accused of running a meth lab, because your basement exploded.

[nenjin]

I imagine turning whatever steel pot you could find into a still also adds some....flavoring byproducts. I've lived out South in the deep woods where the stills get set up and there's no way in hell I'd drink something that came out of a piece of metal sitting out there, distillation or not.

[Nikov]

Stainless steel doesn't rust and copper is a trace mineral. Besides, you eat off a cast iron skillet. What could possibly go wrong with a little rust?

Red wine tonight, from a 12oz orange juice goblet. Ah, Carlo Rossi. What would I do without ten dollar a gallon red wine.

[nenjin]

What could possibly go wrong with a little rust?

I don't let my skillet sit out in 90% humidity 90+ weather in the middle of the woods when I'm not using it. I don't see why that stricture shouldn't apply to what makes the booze either Most of the stills I've seen in the ATF videos of cracking down on moonshiners look like oversized gas tanks. A proper copper still that's forged? Not out in BFE-Chattawhachi County.

[Nadaka]

I just got back from a 3 day canoe/camping trip. I brought Jager, vodka and mudslide. The mudslide I had never tried before, and it was insufficiently alcoholic and very heavy on the stomach. I also borrowed some rum, hunch punch and a beer from others after my Jager flask made a few rounds and came back warm and mostly sand. I now know that it is almost certainly impossible for me to be drunk enough that light beer doesn't disgust me. I also had a nice run in with an allergic reaction when someone insisted their rum was melon flavored when it was definitely coconut. But the absolutely worst part was that none of the women were single.

[G-Flex]

What could possibly go wrong with a little rust?

I don't let my skillet sit out in 90% humidity 90+ weather in the middle of the woods when I'm not using it. I don't see why that stricture shouldn't apply to what makes the booze either Most of the stills I've seen in the ATF videos of cracking down on moonshiners look like oversized gas tanks. A proper copper still that's forged? Not out in BFE-Chattawhachi County.

Rust might not be harmful (per se) but it definitely doesn't taste amazing, nor will any liquid you leave in it for an extended period of time.

[Lord Inquisitor]

I fancy organic lavender whitetea with my Irish whiskey

heretic, do not pollute the water of life

[KaelGotDwarves]

I'm sorry. Are you Irish? Would you like some more alcohol with your alcohol?

[MaximumZero]

Posting here for future reference. Must. Post. Drunken. Stories. There are so many!

[RedKing]

What could possibly go wrong with a little rust?

I don't let my skillet sit out in 90% humidity 90+ weather in the middle of the woods when I'm not using it. I don't see why that stricture shouldn't apply to what makes the booze either Most of the stills I've seen in the ATF videos of cracking down on moonshiners look like oversized gas tanks. A proper copper still that's forged? Not out in BFE-Chattawhachi County.

Yeah....still-crafting is kind of a lost art. Back in the day when everyone actually had copper cookware, the stills utilized that. Now you see things that are basically industrial 55-gallon drums with some tubes in them. The best are the ones that the hicks try to run double-duty as meth cookers. Considering what the residue does to the metal, just imagine what it'll do to your insides.