{"id":674,"date":"2013-07-25T03:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T03:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=674"},"modified":"2013-07-25T03:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T03:56:57","slug":"diy-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2013\/07\/25\/diy-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Drinks"},"content":{"rendered":"

My cultural education continues. Having a drink or two is common to socialization in many cultures, but today’s experience went a little further.<\/p>\n

We were visiting the home of Andrew and Natasha. Andrew showed us two gallon jugs with dates of 2004 and 2008. These were gifts he had received from a skilled friend. He opened both for us.<\/p>\n

\"homemade\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Before drinking Andrew had to test the alcohol content (with a lighter). Both burned. From the color it was difficult to determine just what these liquors were. Attempting to understand Russian did not help. After the use of a translation dictionary and a thorough discussion of a wide variety of liquors, we finally decided one was brandy and one was scotch. I will go with both guesses. I am pretty certain about the brandy.<\/p>\n

\"testingalc\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrew wanted to send a jug home with us. I am guessing this is not allowed, but I will have to convince him such gifts are not covered by duty free.<\/p>\n

I did sample, but the amount offered was a little beyond my afternoon limit. Very good!<\/p>\n

\"marksample\"<\/a>
\nJust to be clear, the Russians take the role of designated driver very seriously. The driver never, never drinks.<\/p>\n

Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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