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To feel uneasy about drinking this vodka?

53 replies

TheCunnyFunt · 04/07/2013 08:28

I know it's a bit early for an alcohol thread but I just saw the bottle and thought 'Right, I will do a thread about it!'. We bulk buy chicken breasts from the local chicken factory, on Tuesday, DP went to his mates (said mate gets it for us) house to collect the chicken and came home with a bottle of vodka. Lemon or lime flavour apparently. He says it's legit but it's in an old chardonnay bottle with a sticky label over the top of the original label with C/Vodka 11/12 written on it.

I don't know if anyone watches Emmerdale or Hollyoaks but both soaps have had recent storylines about dodgy vodka (mixed with bleach etc) and it's really put me off trying it. I don't know who made it or where it's come from, all I can get off DP is 'X got it off a mate' (X being the bloke that gets the chicken for us).

AIBU to feel uneasy about drinking it?

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HappyJoyful · 04/07/2013 09:52

I was in Slovakia last Summer and all there were people dropping dead from dodgy alcohol... they were clearing shelves of everything. This would probably be enough to put me off.. didn't realise this was happening in this country.

As other's are saying though, is it like it's trying to look like a professional imitation bottle or a handmade thing? Does it have any alcohol percentage on it?

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TheCunnyFunt · 04/07/2013 10:07

It's not pretending to be a fake, it looks homemade. I'll take a photo, hang on.

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TheCunnyFunt · 04/07/2013 10:10

This is it

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becscertainstar · 04/07/2013 10:13

If you don't drink it you haven't lost much - vodka isn't that expensive and it's something you can easily do without until you can afford a bottle anyway.

If you drink it and it turns out to be okay - well, even then you'll be worried whether you're going to be ill which will kill the enjoyment of it - and you'll just be relieved not to be dead/blind/otherwise messed up afterwards.

If you drink it and it's not okay you'll be ill - possibly seriously ill, and possibly permanently damaged.

So I'm coming down heavily on 'don't drink it'. The upside is nowhere near worth the downside.

cozietoesie · 04/07/2013 10:13

Either way. I wouldn't drink liquor these days unless I got the bottle sealed from a large reputable outlet or knew the person concerned well enough to trust them.

It really isn't worth it. See \link{http://shropshire.gov.uk/news/2013/06/retailers-heed-warning-about-fake-alcohol/\this }recent report from the West Midlands.

In 2012, provision of suspect alcohol was down (Yes that's down) to 16%.

That's still too much for me.

RandomFriend · 04/07/2013 10:14

Well I wouldn't drink that.

xylem8 · 04/07/2013 10:16

God no, pour it away!

ageofgrandillusion · 04/07/2013 10:17

All a bit odd, desparate times if resorting to buying underhand chicken and dodgy vodka. Why not just go to tesco?

SalaciousBCrumb · 04/07/2013 10:20

Pour it away. It might be just real vodka which has been home-flavoured, but it could be anything really. You don't know anything about it, you don't even know the person who made it. And if your DH spent money on it, make sure he knows not to do it again!

SalaciousBCrumb · 04/07/2013 10:22

Also just occurred to me - it's labelled "C/vodka". Is this supposed to be Citrus vodka? Some people do make Cannabis vodka...?

mrsjay · 04/07/2013 10:25

oh god you could go blind or anything Shock please dont drink the moonshine vodka it has probably been distilled in a boiler int he chicken factory

hiddenhome · 04/07/2013 10:27

Dear God, just chuck it away! You surely can't be that desperate for a drink that you'd put your health at risk Sad

SalaciousBCrumb · 04/07/2013 10:29

Or Chicken Vodka, thinking about it?

ThreeEyedRaven · 04/07/2013 10:31

I'd report it to trading standards. bootleg vodka can kill. if it was just shop bought vodka that had been flavoured then it would more than likely still be in a vodka bottle.

How would you feel if your kids drank this and became ill?

please report it, trading standards will act upon it.immediately.

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TheCunnyFunt · 04/07/2013 10:49

Just asked DP if he paid for it and he said no, which is one good thing at least!

I'm not sure there's much point reporting it, what would I say? 'My DP got given a bottle of home distilled vodka off a mate. But we don't know who made it.' I'm pretty sure the guy that gave it to DP won't shop his friend in for making it. Unless TS have ways of finding out where it came from.

Just had confirmation off DP, it is home distilled. It'll be going down the sink when I get home then!

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Purplecatti · 04/07/2013 11:00

I unwittingly bought dodgy vodka once. It smelt like nail varnish but because it was from a proper shop I thought maybe it was just cheap and nasty. One shot and I was badly hammered. Felt beyond ill the day after too. My friend who'd had a few shots went yellow and ended up in hospital the next day. He was lucky to get no lasting damage.

mrsjay · 04/07/2013 11:01

Or Chicken Vodka, thinking about it?

yum chicken vodka Grin

cozietoesie · 04/07/2013 11:02

Distilling is actually quite a space and labour intensive process so I'm afraid that your 'Home Distilled' is not going to be like 'Home Baked' or 'Home Knitted' but is actually likely to be 'From My Mate Terry' who has a friend who also has a friend with some sort of set up at his workshop down on the nearest industrial estate.

Well done for proposing to put it down the sink.

mrsyattering · 04/07/2013 11:17

depends on how well you know the person and whether its just bought vodka and flavoured (have done this myself in the past) or if they have tried to brew their own...if the latter I wouldn't drink it no

Crinkle77 · 04/07/2013 11:20

I wouldn't drink it. Why was it in an old wine bottle?

Crinkle77 · 04/07/2013 11:25

Sorry realise now that it is home made. I still wouldn't drink it. Surely you would have to put it in sterilised bottles and not an old wine bottle. You can't even be sure that this has been done properly.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 04/07/2013 11:26

if you don't want to drink it don't drink it.

it is quite a opular thing to do right now, flavouring vodka using your dishwasher. had some amazing cherry drop flavoured stuff from shirleyknot on a meetup once.

gobbynorthernbird · 04/07/2013 11:28

I make flavoured vodka/gin and liqueurs and because you add lots of sugar, juice from the fruit is in there, etc, it's impossible to fit 1 bottle back into 1 bottle. Depending on what you're making, you will have at least 50% more liquid so it goes into whatever bottles are hanging around.

Not saying you should drink this, especially if you don't know where it came from, but it being in a wine bottle doesn't automatically make it dodgy.

QuintessentialOldDear · 04/07/2013 11:28

Glad to see you have decided to pour it out.

A friend of mine, who was in jail at the time, had asked another friend to mind his home brewed bear while he served his sentence and complained to Amnesty about him being in jail in the first place (for refusing compulsory armed service). It was a special edition with magic mushrooms added to it. It was really murky. And very tasty. And I did not get ill. It was however the only time in my life I have drunk mushrooms. Magic or otherwise.

QuintessentialOldDear · 04/07/2013 11:29

bear. Grin Lovely auto correct. Beer!

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