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&amp;quot;Will_D&amp;quot;:2td50ivw wrote: What about the original B&W Tv series "The Untouchables", narated by Walter Winchel ( who actually reported on the real FBI/Al Capone/Mafia wars ), "starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness". Nearly every week they featured a micro-brewery and the F****ing Feds trashed it <!-- s:shock: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_eek.gif" alt=":shock:" title="Shocked" /><!-- s:shock: -->

They even poured the beer down the grids of Chicago - Oh to be a Chicago sewer rat ("beer connoisseur"), they must have got Peed silly!!

One of my favourite characters was the book-keeper ( aka Treasurer ) of Al Capone's mob: Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik

Cheers

Will[/quote:2td50ivw]


Funny you mention this. During my walking tour in Portland, Oregon a few weeks ago the commentator mentioned that during prohibition they found a city employee had "tapped" the drain to the government building where they took the confiscated alcohol to and when they'd pour it down the drain, they were reclaiming all the dumped alcohol and putting it back into circulation on the illicit alcohol market again. -Lol!

(And probably slapping a counterfeit Irish Whiskey label on the bottle, too.) MMM Killarney Reclaimed Sewer Whiskey! -Is it any wonder that Scotch Whisky made huge leaps in market share after the US prohibition "experiment"?



Adam

&amp;quot;Lugh Longhand&amp;quot;:3ut88mgr wrote:

&amp;quot;noby&amp;quot;:3ut88mgr wrote: {edit: oops that's a Bad Manners song, not a movie}[/quote:3ut88mgr]

Strange Brew is by Cream (and a film as TBN pointed out) the Bad Manners song is Special Brew

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I had typed Special Brew first - hence the edit comment (which, I realise, didn't make that clear).