He's got a bottle of rotgut whiskey in his lower drawer.
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The rotgut he swills does little to sweeten his jaundiced outlook on life.
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Here, a dividing line between "good" moonshine and the colloquial "rotgut" can be drawn.
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The tourists, meanwhile, open cans of beer—except for the Brits, who open bottles of rotgut Thai whiskey.
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Moonshine that falls into the rotgut category could be dangerous and even deadly for anyone desperate enough to drink it.
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Maybe the same stuff with which the bartenders are spiking the rotgut in George C. Wolfe's current Broadway revival of "The Iceman Cometh," another lugubrious O'Neill masterpiece.
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The label called it bath oil and warned against drinking the contents, but it was common knowledge that bootleggers produced the rotgut specifically as poor man's vodka.
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Seventeenth-century British soldiers, fighting in the Low Countries, showed a sweet tooth for the local rotgut, and the word "gin" derives from jenever , the Dutch for juniper.
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Makers of the worst rotgut so-called "tequila" fill out their mixtos with the cheapest sugar they can find, which typically ends up just being cane sugar or high fructose corn syrup.
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Some draw a connection between his immoderate intake of alcohol and his predisposition for auto-immolation; I keep in mind that the cheap, corrosive rotgut of Krook's place and time was different from the nice stuff we take with tonic today.
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We learn countless details — how to make rotgut liquor (don't forget the tobacco and red peppers) or what to do if the horses pulling the stagecoach in which you are a passenger run wild (don't jump out — sit still and hope for the best).
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It'll be a brandy old-fashioned, if you're doing this right, a cocktail that bears only the faintest resemblance to the whiskey version found elsewhere in the land; the German immigrants who settled the state preferred their alcohol on the sweet side, and, according to Holly L. De Ruyter, the director of the 303 documentary "Old Fashioned: The Story of the Wisconsin Supper Club," the drink was refined during Prohibition, when people had to use fruit and sugar to mask the taste of rotgut liquor.
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Mitsuhashi, "Reappraisal", p. 25. Meanwhile, his portraits of orphans and the desperate but sometimes pleasurable life of the city were run in camera magazines, general-interest magazines, and more surprisingly in Fujin Kōron; these too would be anthologized, first in 1980 in a book, Kasutori Jidai (, "The rotgut period"),Kasutori “was widely sold in the months immediately after Japan's surrender, when better alcoholic beverages were not available. Kasutori smelled like the rotgut it was, since it was made of the fermentable materials of the worst quality, but it did have one advantage: it was cheap. Thus kasutori came to symbolize the spirit and mores of the times.
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In Scotland, the money trail followed uisge beatha, Gaelic for whisky. Distilling whisky had been legalised in 1823, leading to a proliferation in the number of brands in the market. Some were rotgut, some produced at 70-72% alcohol by volume (ABV), but the majority were at 60-65% ABV, imbibed after cutting with water. There were a few good brands too, news of which spread by word of mouth.
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Siwucha is one of the generic Slavic words for a moonshine. In Polish it denotes a home- brew vodka or rotgut used for its preparation. The Russian term сивуха denotes also its poor quality and is used like "fusel" in "fusel oil" (сивушные масла). The name was first used as a vodka brand in Warsaw shortly before World War I. It was in production by various distilleries in Poland during the interbellum.
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, > Vol. III: Fla–Hyps. 1893.): The narrator is so overcome with emotion (be it > pleasure or sorrow) that he has no concern at all about his gimcrack cracked > corn, his substandard rations. Since "corn" was also a common rural American > ellipsis and euphemism for "corn whiskey", it could also refer to the slave > being so overcome that he has no concern about his rotgut alcohol.
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The 1885 Beer Bottle Sidewalk in front of Jim Cotton's Saloon on Washington Street in Phoenix, Arizona As towns grew, saloons were often elaborately decorated, featured Bohemian stemware, and oil paintings were hung from the wall. The hard liquor was improved, often featuring whiskey imported from the Eastern United States and Europe. To avoid rotgut, patrons would request "fancy" mixed drinks. Some of the top ten drinks in 1881 included claret sangarees and champagne flips.
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The second series was broadcast in most countries in 2004, but it aired in the United Kingdom during the summer of 2005 for unknown reasons. This season was not aired in the United States due to the poor reception of the first season. The graphics were greatly improved, and several of the characters including Staff Head and Pigface were changed to look more like the animals they resembled. Kilobyte, Rotgut, Kat Adams and Rick the Master Programmer made their debut in this season.
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One of the participants was from a local band named Rotgut that featured Anthony Cumia as lead singer with his brother Joe on guitar. The two performed "Gonna Electric Shock O.J." sung to the tune of "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. The song became a hit on Hughes's show, and the two made their first appearance in September 1994 to perform the song live. Cumia made several more appearances soon after; in early 1995, he and Hughes decided to become a radio team.
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With the start of Prohibition, the North Siders quickly took control of the existing breweries and distilleries in the North Side of Chicago. This gave them a near monopoly on the local supply of real beer and high quality whiskey; their rivals only had supplies of rotgut liquor and moonshine. Based on the North Clark Street restaurant McGovern's Saloon and Cafe, the North Side Gang would soon control the working-class neighborhoods of the 42nd and 43rd Wards within months. In addition to bootlegging, the gang continued to burglarize local stores and warehouses and run illegal gambling operations.
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By the late 1920s, the Broadway Mob supplied New York speakeasies with some of the highest quality whiskey including Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club, the Silver Slipper, Jack White's, Jack and Charlie's 21 Club among others. Even its lesser quality alcohol imported from Philadelphia mobster Waxey Gordon was considered far superior to the rotgut liquor supplied by the rest of New York's underworld. At the suggestion of Rothstein, the Broadway Mob bought interests in several popular speakeasies and nightclub which would lead to purchasing valuable real estate in Manhattan. Its operations were eventually absorbed into the criminal syndicate under Luciano and Lansky, following the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.
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Sitas studied sociology and political philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and was one of the founder members of the celebrated Junction Avenue Theatre Company. In 1978, he and the Company received the Olive Schreiner Award for the play, Randlords and Rotgut, and, in 1981, won an award for his video Howl at the Moon. He completed his PhD on the emergence of a social movement of trade union workers on the East Rand under the supervision of Eddie Webster and David Webster (who was assassinated by the Apartheid regime). After a number of years of part-time jobs and creative and political activism, he was employed in 1982 by the University of Natal, Durban.
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Cumia at the XM studio in 2005 Cumia first met radio personality Gregg "Opie" Hughes when the latter held an O. J. Simpson song parody contest on his Nighttime Attitude show on Long Island radio station WBAB. He and Joe decided to enter the contest, and recorded an entry as Rotgut titled "Gonna Electric Shock OJ" to the tune of "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. The song was a hit with Hughes, who played it several times on his show and, in September 1994, invited the Cumias to the studio to perform the song live. Cumia began to contribute and produce comedy bits for Hughes and the station's morning show soon after, while working his installation job.
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In mid-1994, Gregg "Opie" Hughes was the host of The Nighttime Attitude, a late night music radio show on WBAB on Long Island, New York. In an effort to capitalize on the extensive media coverage of the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, Hughes held a song parody contest for listeners to submit entries based on the trial. Among the thirty or so submissions that he received, one of them was "Gonna Electric Shock O.J." to the tune of "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding, performed by Rotgut, a local band featuring Anthony Cumia, a construction worker, on vocals and his brother Joe. The latter travelled to the station while Hughes was doing his show to submit a cassette tape of the parody, and only allowed Hughes to take it.O&A20;: Unmasked at 00:06:23–00:07:34 The parody became a hit with the audience, who asked for the song to be played each night.
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