There was a comment on Slashdot years ago about making special vodka with hot peppers, vodka and Mason jars: chop peppers in half, put in mason jar, close mason jar, put at back of cabinet for a few months.
I don’t consume this very often anymore, and my tolerance for capsaicin is not what it once was, but I think you never go back to the tolerance of people who have not trained themselves to tolerate relatively-high amounts of the stuff.
Had a girlfriend who got down on herself and locked herself in the bedroom with a bottle of wine. She came out when it was finished and said she needed more alcohol. I reached into the freezer and handed her my bottle of special vodka. She tipped up the bottle and took a generous shot. She instantly knew what I’d done: “asshole”, then went outside and threw it all up. She didn’t drink alcohol again for 3 or 5 years.
Lots of my taxi passengers had drinking problems. One of my favorite stories was the old guy who explicitly pointed this out to me. Eventually I mostly figured out better strategies for dealing with the cause behind the compulsion…
But capsaicin-vodka is a good way to sour drunks on helping themselves to your fine liquor collection.
I don’t consume this very often anymore, and my tolerance for capsaicin is not what it once was, but I think you never go back to the tolerance of people who have not trained themselves to tolerate relatively-high amounts of the stuff.
Had a girlfriend who got down on herself and locked herself in the bedroom with a bottle of wine. She came out when it was finished and said she needed more alcohol. I reached into the freezer and handed her my bottle of special vodka. She tipped up the bottle and took a generous shot. She instantly knew what I’d done: “asshole”, then went outside and threw it all up. She didn’t drink alcohol again for 3 or 5 years.
Lots of my taxi passengers had drinking problems. One of my favorite stories was the old guy who explicitly pointed this out to me. Eventually I mostly figured out better strategies for dealing with the cause behind the compulsion…
But capsaicin-vodka is a good way to sour drunks on helping themselves to your fine liquor collection.