Alcohol, drinks, beer, rom, alcohol...

[Nitro Express]

Brown ale is lush , but it's tough to have a whole night drinking it cos it tricks you into thinking
" this is nice I can totally drink this all"
.........Then you wake up in bed with a pizza .

It's good brew. The place I buy gas sells it. I prefer Mexican beer if I want to get sauced to the gills. Frankly, if I'm out to get drunk, it's going to be on something hecho en Mexico.

[Satan]

Yeah that's a drunk conversation I've had before ... It's 101% alcohol how's that etc etc

If it was 101% alcohol, it would evaporate before you could pour enough for a fucking shot glass! Or burst into flames, in my neighborhood

[Nitro Express]

The drink that got me in trouble was Ouzo. I think the stuff we were drinking was 90 or 100 proof. It just goes down so easy. You can easily drink a half bottle of the stuff and then WHAM! the alcohol kicks in and you may be on the carnival ride from hell that you can't get off of and it never stops. Yeah. I got my ass kicked.

[vandeleur]

Yeah , but if your pissed enough to try and drink wild turkey your to pissed to explain abv and proof. Or so I've found lol

[envy_me]

The drink that got me in trouble was Ouzo. I think the stuff we were drinking was 90 or 100 proof. It just goes down so easy. You can easily drink a half bottle of the stuff and then WHAM! the alcohol kicks in and you may be on the carnival ride from hell that you can't get off of and it never stops. Yeah. I got my ass kicked.

Ouzo is okay. I never get to drink a lot of it, cause my best friend LOVES it. I take one shot, she takes the rest of the bottle.

[Nitro Express]

If it was 101% alcohol, it would evaporate before you could pour enough for a fucking shot glass! Or burst into flames, in my neighborhood

When you distill alcohol you toss the first batch and then the second to the fifth batch is going to be the highest proof and then it tapers down after that. Then it's all blended later. If you are getting a good still run your prime batches in the run will run about 190 proof. I've never heard of anyone getting 200 proof or 100%. That's in a pot still. A column still is a whole different ball game. It gets involved. Making good hooch is not easy.

[envy_me]

We don't say proof. We say procentage of the alcohol. Why don't you guys do that too?

[Satan]

We don't say proof. We say procentage of the alcohol. Why don't you guys do that too?

Damned if I know.

Beer and wine (and all those odd fruit flavored cooler things) always lists the percentage of alcohol. It's only the distilled spirits (the hard stuff) that uses the proof number.

[Nitro Express]

Yeah , but if your pissed enough to try and drink wild turkey your to pissed to explain abv and proof. Or so I've found lol

It doesn't take much Wild Turkey to make you feel like you are cruising on a cloud off to see God. I can see why Evel Knievel took a shot before each jump. After the Wild Turkey got into him, he probably actually thought he could do it. LOL! Dangerous shit. Too much courage in that bottle.

And in 2003, Knievel admitted that he owned a diamond- encrusted cane that doubled as a flask for Wild Turkey.

You are headed for a whole lotta trouble when you take your whiskey home....

[Nitro Express]

We don't say proof. We say procentage of the alcohol. Why don't you guys do that too?

Because we would have to rename our booze. Wild Turkey 50.5 doesn't sound as cool as Wild Turkey 101. Also Bacardi 151 would become Bacardi 75.5. Then people would come into the liquor store and see those low numbers and go,"Man. I'm not buying that watered down shit and walk away."

[Nitro Express]

Ouzo is okay. I never get to drink a lot of it, cause my best friend LOVES it. I take one shot, she takes the rest of the bottle.

How rude. Man. I would hate to have her around if you had a real good bottle of absinthe. I've tried the green genie a few times but still got a better high off of Mexican rot gut with worm skin, twigs and dirt in it. Some of that Oaxaca donkey ground rocket fuel will launch you way past Kolob if you aren't careful.

[Nitro Express]

Jim Beam will make you go crazy too. Gotta love bourbon.

[envy_me]

How rude. Man. I would hate to have her around if you had a real good bottle of absinthe. I've tried the green genie a few times but still got a better high off of Mexican rot gut with worm skin, twigs and dirt in it. Some of that Oaxaca donkey ground rocket fuel will launch you way past Kolob if you aren't careful.

She's like a sponge.

[envy_me]

Because we would have to rename our booze. Wild Turkey 50.5 doesn't sound as cool as Wild Turkey 101. Also Bacardi 151 would become Bacardi 75.5. Then people would come into the liquor store and see those low numbers and go,"Man. I'm not buying that watered down shit and walk away."

They can keep the name as a brand. Like Chanel no 5.

[Nitro Express]

They can keep the name as a brand. Like Chanel no 5.

I looked it up. The term proof is British and was used to grade alcohol. The US regulations on alcohol still use the US proof system to grade alcohol. In Europe when the European Union came into being, they have their own alcohol grading system with is based on a percentage of volume.

I believe they still use proof in Canada. At least the Canadian whiskey we buy here has proof. Like Yukon Jack is 100 proof and says so on the bottle.