bathtub gin
Homemade speakeasy liquor
Bathtub gin is cheaply made, low-quality gin, especially the homemade liquor produced during Prohibition in the United States.
The name comes from the practice of mixing alcohol with flavorings in vessels large enough to hold—bathtubs being convenient.
The term now applies loosely to any crude homemade spirit: They were brewing bathtub gin in the basement.
Illicit liquor establishment
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- flapperTwenties unconventional young woman
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
- CharlestonSouthern Atlantic port city
roaring twenties · 18th Amendment · 21st Amendment · repeal · temperance · rumrunner · G-men · Eliot Ness
Prohibited trade goods
- black marketIllicit trading system
- illegalForbidden by statute
- outlawedForbidden by law
- prohibitedOfficially not permitted
unlicensed · underground · smuggle · bootleg · criminal · covert · under-the-table · unregulated
speakeasy
Illicit liquor establishment
- bootleggerIllegal liquor trafficker
- flapperTwenties unconventional young woman
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
Charleston · roaring twenties · 18th Amendment · 21st Amendment · repeal · temperance · rumrunner · G-men · Eliot Ness · raid
contraband
Prohibited trade goods
- black marketIllicit trading system
- illegalForbidden by statute
- outlawedForbidden by law
prohibited · unlicensed · underground · smuggle · bootleg · criminal · covert · under-the-table · unregulated · hidden
harsh
Unpleasantly severe or rough
dangerous · toxic · methanol · blindness · poisoning · impure · adulterated · burning · raw · strong
distill
Purify through vaporization
- homebrewSelf-made alcoholic beverage
- fermentMicrobial chemical breakdown
- brewSteeped or fermented drink
concoct · improvised · makeshift · DIY · amateur · backyard · kitchen · recipe · crude · unrefined
- Prohibition EraProhibition, bootleggers, bootlegging, bootlegger, speakeasies
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- Roaring Twentiesflappers, Charleston, speakeasies, jazz age, Prohibition
- spiritsghost, vodka, rum, whiskey, brandy
- cheap drinkscheap vodka, bottom shelf, box wine, jug wine, house wine
- drink historybootleggers, speakeasies, temperance movement, 18th Amendment, 21st Amendment
bathtub ginTanqueray
British gin brand
Beefeater · Bombay Sapphire · Gordon's · single malt scotch · Dom Pérignon
bath, bathing, gin, bathtub, bathed, moonshine, bathtubs, gins, bathwater