bathtub gin

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The decline in alcohol quality due to rampant bootlegging forced bartenders to mask the harsh flavors of bathtub gin and moonshine.

From Salon

You might guess bathtub gin or home-brewed beer.

From National Geographic

At 90 minutes, that night is brief, maybe too brief, and feels less like an immersive soak in Prohibition New York than a slug of bathtub gin.

From New York Times

Spiegelman saw March’s work as a memento of a different age: “His generation swilled bathtub gin and had a wild party. Our generation gulps Prozac,” he wrote in his introduction.

From New York Times

All through those precious months in Paris, you were the bathtub gin: hardscrabble, rough, a little bitter, but invigorating.

From Seattle Times