I was at a cook out last night and someone pulled out a bottle of apple pie moonshine. I told the girl sitting next to me that i love homemade stuff. she says she brews beer. to make a long story shot, i'll just list a couple of the things that came out of her mouth.
-she uses wild yeast made from corn since its organic
-her stout has an abv of 80%
-its not really beer its more like "between beer and liquor" since the alchol was above that of coors light (what she was drinking)
I eventually just walked away mid sentence.
Heh, well I give her props for the DIY-ness of it. Really the only comment there that has me totally facepalming is the 80% ABV thing.
It reminds me of another story... one I call "The Amazing Fifty Proof Man":
Maaaany years ago, I was in a bar with a coupe of female friends of mine. A guy comes over and starts hitting on one of them, which was alright with me, I wasn't dating either of them (they ended up going on like one date, which was apparently lousy, haha). I'm mostly talking to my other friend, not paying much attention, but he gets to this point where he starts talking about how he got caught drunk driving. He says that when they tested his BAC, it was 25%. I just HAD to chime in at that point:
"I think you mean POINT two-five percent."
"No man, it was 25%. I was really trashed."
"Um, okay, haha, I know, but you mean 0.25%. 25% would kill you."
"Not me and my friends, you don't know how much we used to drink!"
"Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure... but 25% would still kill you. It would kill anyone. ONE percent will kill you. Most people would be well-past dead at 0.50%, though some isolated cases have been reported of some hardcore alcoholics surviving a fair bit past that. It was 0.25%."
"You have no idea what you are talking about. I was so trashed I could barely stand up."
(One wonders what he was doing driving, of course)
"Yep, that sounds about right for 0.25%."
"I was there and you weren't!"
At that point, I just nodded and laughed and said, "Whatever, buddy," to which he responded with some comment about a "****-eating grin," and long story short we almost came to blows.