Le Prevo Round Knife Help

[gmace99]

Art you spelt the name correct translated it means rocky shore. On the name thing I am a saddlemaker. my surname is MacEachran translated it means Son of the Lord of the Horses.

Whisky is good for you tale.

A old man went to the doctor........the doctor asked did he drink......the old man said yes doctor a good class of whisky every day......the doctor said oh my you can't do that whisky is bad for you.......the old man said no way I will keep drinking my glass every day.

The doctor is ready for the old man at his next appointment.......he says to the old man I have prepared an experiment to show you what whisky does..

The doctor puts two glasses on his desk one with water the other with whisky in it........He gets a worm and puts it in the glass of water and the worm swims around in it........he then puts a worm in a glass of whisky immediately the worm dies.

The doctor looks at the old man and says I hope that is taught you a lesson.

The old man says yes doctor I just cant thank you enough for showing me that.

I now know if I keep drinking my whisky I will never get worms.....

[Trox]

That's a nice story MacEachran When I grew up people could not afford buying alcohol. The government has monopoly on selling both wine and spirits. You had to stand in line sometimes for hours to buy some. They added several hundred prosent tax so people could not afford it. We inherited distillation apparatus and the knowledge from our fathers, as they had from their fathers. The spirit was made from sugar and yeast, distilled once or twice to get it over 92 % strong (96 % is maximum before it turns in to gas). Some that had fruit in their gardens made the liquor based on that and that tasted sometimes better. From the strong clean spirits people mixed their own whiskey and Brandy, but it tasted like crap. The best way was to drink it clean (96 % strong) with Coffey and sugar.

Saturday night when we went to the dance party they served only halv full Coffey cups, but every body was drunk as H.... Every year before Christmas my father made alcohol, it was not legal but the police turned the blind eye. Everybody who was not rich did it, the police families too.

The government still have the wine and spirits monopoly, but the prices has normalized (still the most expensive place in Europe, thought). They have turned it in to a regular shop with service minded people. Most people want to keep the government monopoly, because they treat their customers well and they have a huge product range. Young people today do not make their own liquor, but many buy from smugglers. The smugglers sell to everyone including kids, so I do not know what the government trying to achieve with their alcohol policy

[gmace99]

That is the joy of living in Europe everything is taxed to the hilt then on top of that we have VAT tax at 20%. I would love to know how to make a nice spirit Don't know why moonshine is not made here .

[Art]

Making alcohol is passed down from father to son, and has been probably since the pharaohs. Farmers tend to produce much more than the local community can consume. In farming communities the grain sold for a pittance because of oversupply. In times when transportation was inefficient, shipping grain was prohibitive. So the farmer turned grain, corn, and sugar into alcohol. It lasts forever and if in wood seems to get better. Also a gallon of alcohol has less volume than the corresponding volume of grain. Remember that back in those days, alcohol eased the pain of hard manual labor. In the dense agrarian culture of Europe, the need to store grain wasn't as prevalent as the need for pure water, so beer/mead/ale was the primary product. With efficient transportation, commodity exchanges, and water and sanitary systems, the physical need to store value may have went away, but the taste had already been developed.

Art