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That countered higher receipts at beer, wine and liquor stores, and at supermarkets and grocery retailers.

On reaching the outskirts of the capital, Patna, the team found a ramshackle setup of a dozen metal drums - part of a makeshift apparatus fermenting jaggery, a type of cane sugar, into country liquor.

That includes foreigners and workers on the country's tea estates, where Carew's low-cost liquor is popular among the 150,000 mainly Hindu workers.

Mr. Lloyd’s earliest experiences playing for audiences included work with bluesmen such as Howlin’ Wolf, “in schoolhouses, with corn liquor, gambling and gunshots in the distance,” he told me.

This compares with the firepower of the sweet screw-cap stuff in flask-shaped bottles sold quite profitably by liquor stores and downed from paper bags.