tennessee bourbon

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DP wrote:
I have never been able to acquire a taste for whiskey and, sorry to say, bourbon is the worst. If I get it close to my nose I think of a powerful solvent. The fumes are terrible.
Way back when me and Moses were privates in the Army I was stationed at Ft. Knox. A fellow soldier who lived in eastern Kentucky would bring back some home-made after a weekend pass. He brought it in gallon plastic milk jug; no more mason jars! Great paint remover-couldn't even understand how anyone could drink it. I know it's not the properly aged stuff but...

Having relatives in that part of the country, I can attest that "white lightning" or whatever you choose to call it, is some of the strongest stuff I think you could ingest. I think the only way you can develop a taste for that stuff is to grow up in that part of the country where it is the drink of choice partly because it was the only thing available.

I have an uncle by marriage that had constructed his own still, totally out of stainless steel. Where ever it was that he worked gave him access to all the parts he needed to make it. He should have been dead decades ago from drinking that stuff but is still going. He must be close to 90 now. My mother thinks his insides are pickled from all that alcohol and that is why he is still alive.