The Hard Liquor and Miscellaneous Stiff Drinks Thread

[Sasaki Kojiro]

As long as you buy wodka with a semi respectable brand you'll be fine. Don't ever go for the (ridiculously) cheap wodka in, say, your supermarket. That's the nasty stuff, that's what causes all kind of problems - like blindness and the such.

That's methanol that causes blindness. Though I have heard of cases where unscrupulous people sold methanol as vodka, I doubt the sold in a supermarket.

[Dutch_guy]

That's methanol that causes blindness. Though I have heard of cases where unscrupulous people sold methanol as vodka, I doubt the sold in a supermarket.

That must be why I don't see very cheap vodka? What are you talking about?

This is based on my trip to Russia last February, where you'd literally see a warning sticker on a bottle of €2/3$ vodka. That's bad stuff, no doubt about it. Doesn't get sold here on in any other western country, of course, so sure hope I didn't cause a panic.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

This is based on my trip to Russia last February, where you'd literally see a warning sticker on a bottle of €2/3$ vodka. That's bad stuff, no doubt about it. Doesn't get sold here on in any other western country, of course, so sure hope I didn't cause a panic.

Well yeah. The Russian Government actually started putting out its own super cheap vodka to cut out the blackmarket stuff, which can kill you.

[rajpoot]

Well yeah. The Russian Government actually started putting out its own super cheap vodka to cut out the blackmarket stuff, which can kill you.

That doesn't make sense.....people are going to die drinking the government made super cheap vodka insted of snuffing after having black market stuff....
Well nothing the governments do makes much sense to me anyway......

[Uesugi Kenshin]

That doesn't make sense.....people are going to die drinking the government made super cheap vodka insted of snuffing after having black market stuff....
Well nothing the governments do makes much sense to me anyway......

I believe they were selling the stuff at a loss, so though their vodka was super cheap it wasn't deadly.

[miotas]

Here in Oz, the cheapest alcohol we have is goon. Less than 10 aussie dollars for 4L of wine, about the same price as metho. If there is any alcohol that will kill ya then it's goon. That is the nastiest shit you can buy.

My choice of alcohol is good quality aussie rum, which has the dual benefit of being both delicious and too expensive for me to drink to excess.