Abu Jamal beer was brewed at the Blue Nile Brewery on the banks of the Nile in Khartoum, ordinary weddings saw vast consumption of the lethal local liquor, and red light districts were easily identified.
Don't get me wrong, for many years I was the girl outside the bar buzzed off liquor, wearing red lipstick, smoking a cigarette and laughing too loud a cute guy's joke.
Set up your bar to have the following layout of 4 rows, starting from the back: The first row should have liquor bottles, red wine and white wine, in order from left to right.
With high-heeled ankle boots, they were like liquor to red-carpet candy.
Many Chinese called it "red liquor," if only to distinguish it from "white liquor," or baijiu, the ferocious grain alcohol that was far more prevalent.
Taped above the top liquor shelf were red, white and blue signs: "We Stand Together".
Afolayan guffaws and pours everyone another slug of red liquor: "It's the Campari talking!" His energy is infectious, and this is precisely why the strapping but baby-faced 41-year-old finds himself spurring Nollywood beyond its current limitations.
Grinning seditiously, a prominent citizen of this Blue Ridge foothills town takes from his kitchen refrigerator an illegal gift from a moonshiner friend: a syrupy red liquor in a quart jar packed with grapelike damsonberries.
Serve with warm new potatoes dressed with a bit of mustard and a little Greek yoghurt or sour cream, accompanied by a green salad, which I dress with some of the pickling liquor and the red onions, plus a drizzle of oil.
Try a Bostmendi (16.20 euros), a bright-red liquor made from prunes and sealed in bottles with melted wax. 1 p.m. 12) HISTORY LESSON It would be heresy to leave Biarritz without meeting Jêrôme Dimitri.
