Rot gut

The merchants were notorious for heavily watering down this “rot gut” whiskey; and thus, a little something else was needed to give a bottle of rot gut the right amount of “kick”.

As a result of their laws in some of the states statistics furnish the facts that more “rot gut” whiskey is used than ever before, the milder and more harmless beverages having been in a measure embargoed by the law by reason of the fact that they cannot so easily be smuggled and handled as the concentrated “forty rod” whiskey.

“This time it ain't gonna be none of that cheap rot gut stuff is it?” Nate posed to Marten.