bathtub gin

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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

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

From Seattle Times

“You can almost liken this back to when people would make bathtub gin and put anti-freeze in it. This exists because there’s illicit products.”

From Los Angeles Times

“It felt like I had just made a deal to buy a case of bathtub gin,” Mr. Logan said.

From New York Times

Cocktails “and the late-afternoon hour devoted to them,’’ the article explained, were a direct result of the Prohibition-era practice of disguising the flavor of bathtub gin and other spirits with fruit juices.

From New York Times