Tingriti Moonshine

I went into town today with the intention of buying some wine liquor that I had spoken with Ravi about. I had seen some plants that looked a lot like hop plants on the drive to Tingriti but they turned out to be some type of grape and that they used it to make liquor. So a few of us went to the small local store and asked for it. After smiling and laughing a little he said that he could get me some liquor. I also asked it I could see where and how it was made so he had a man take me down and back a little alley where a hunchback man stood under a porch breathing the smoke of a wood fire that had a large kettle on it. Above this was a cool water bath on top and a shoot out the side that was dripping a clear liquid into another container. This I assume was the liquor. Unfortunately I did not have my camera with me so I am unable to upload any pictures into this post. The liquor was actually made from fermented wheat rather than grapes. So I took the canister they gave me back to camp and held onto it for a little while because I wanted to ask Ravi if he new of any definite dangers or stories of local people getting sick from this stuff. As far as he knew no one had but he said to drink it at our own risk. So that night few of us tried it. It seemed to almost evaporate right off the tongue, giving merit to the upper 90 percent alcohol percentage that we had been hearing. It wasn't very good at all. It had a slightly goaty/sheepy aftertaste. I couldn't tell if this was a quality of the wheat or a byproduct of the process. Either way, none of us drank very much and the rest of it ended up getting poured in the fire for the entertainment of all. It is also worth noting here that none of the people that drank it suffered any ill consequences.