bathtub gin

You might guess bathtub gin or home-brewed beer.

Downing homemade hooch and bathtub gin, they also turned to smugglers who sold them rum, brandy, and other drinks.

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.

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.

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