the putrid scent of black licorice mixed with the stinging odor of grain alcohol

The taste is indescribably horrid.

The major taste is black licorice - which I detest - mixed with feces. The aggregate of other herbs, spices, and straight alcohol quickly accompanies the initial onslaught of nastiness. What follows is a rotten taste in one's mouth coupled with a burning sensation from throat to stomach.

It's expensive, it tastes apalling, and it apparently makes you pee your pants. Save your money and buy ten bottles of vodka, or whatever it is that you favor. Maybe I should stop trying new things and stick to what I like. It would save me money, embarrassment and the responsibility of buying new bed sheets.

I wanted to do a little research before I experimented, so I found a Web site devoted entirely to every drug known to mankind. The site I found, www.erowid.org, is an extremely well-organized and simply-crafted Web site that gives information (with sources) on hundreds of chemicals, plants, pharmaceuticals, and other designer drugs.

Then you place a sugar cube on the spoon, drizzling cold water on the cube until it dissolves and drips down into the liquor.

This looked like the classy thing to do.

But I couldn't find sugar, so I picked up the bottle and chugged.

so I picked up the bottle and chugged.

The major taste is black licorice - which I detest - mixed with feces.

www.erowid.org,

it tastes apalling