Tag: Grain alcohol

• Grain Alcohol with Grapefruit Juice

  

  Happy Pynchon in Public day all! I confess I am not doing my drinking in public this evening, but I did at least read Vineland on the train this morning AND left it lying prominently on my desk at work all day and it’s just not my fault if none of my colleagues were curious […]

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  May 8, 2018

  Cocktail/mixed, Gravity’s Rainbow

  Albert Krypton, Grain alcohol, Pig Bodine

• Gwenhidwy’s Drink

  

  As you should all already know, the Pynchon in Public Podcast team have planted the glorious tombstone/nosecone on their quest both madcap and meticulous through Gravity’s Rainbow after the rocket. In small tribute to their gargantuan efforts, I shall here tackle perhaps the most intimidating drink found within those pages. It’s maybe more like a […]

  mjhorn

  April 9, 2018

  Cocktail/mixed, Gravity’s Rainbow

  Grain alcohol, Gwenhidwy, Podcast, Pynchon in Public

• Torpedo Juice

  

  During WWII, US Navy torpedos were fuelled on 180 proof grain alcohol. So were the sailors.  The torpedos had an easier time stomaching the stuff. Alcohol was (and is) more-or-less banned on Navy ships, and the higher-ups employed dastardly stratagems to keep the high-proof fuel out of the sailors’ bloodstreams. Early on, They spiked the […]

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  January 4, 2018

  Cocktail/mixed, V

  Grain alcohol, Howie Surd, Navy, Torpedo