Coz, the trip home.....

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I wouldn't be supprised at all. look at the mass posionings in africa weekly from methanol. Never drink home brew, unless you brew it yourself for this very reason.
I have no recolection of how I lost my pants, they were just gone! :-) I have had this problem in the past.
 
ggunn:
...methanol (wood alcohol)...very toxic...

Thank you, Gordon; goes to show that beyond the good stuff, I'm ignorantly hasty. I edited the source post. I barely remembered that in the mid-90's, as the former market leader 1800 tequila was losing its luster to the newly-available, true anejos, they exported some extra kick tequila. It didn't last long.

Oddly, I've never heard of wood alcohol-moonshine poisoning in Mexico, as in parts of Africa (and occasionally, still in the U.S.) In fact, the Mexican regional moonshines are now going mainstream to capitalize on tequila's popularity. For instance, there is a cactus distillate from the state of Chihuahua called sotol, which has shed its homegrown image to be sold in good stores and even exported to the U.S. There's also a maguey product from the state of Sonora called bacanora that's becoming available. These products can't be sold as tequila because (a) they're from outside the officially-designated, five-state tequila region of Mexico; and (b) they're not from the classic "agave tequilana Weber, blue variety." They're not bad, though.

Your next round's on me!
 

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