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Let me tell you niggers about Baijiu

This is the one distilled alcohol traditional to China, and it is made in the most ass-backwards way you could possibly imagine. Just to give some small context, every other alcohol on earth is made this way:

>Mix up something starchy and/or sweet with water and possibly yeast. Ferment that, then distill it, age in barrel if you want, then mix it with water to about 60-80 proof.

That is not how Baijiu is made.

>Mix a bunch of sorghum (cow feed/hay stuff) with powdered rice that's been left out to develop a yeast.
>Bury a big pit of this hay/rice mixture in a bog
>Dig up the pit and put blocks of this fermented mixture in a steamer
>Distill the blocks into an alcohol, then put alcohol into big clay jars
>Mix with water to 70-120 proof

Oh and let me tell you, it doesn't end there. It's fucking disgusting. It tastes like horse sweat and kerosene. It smells like a pile of cow shit left in an airtight bag in the summer. And they charge $300 retail for a 250ml bottle. Chinese businessmen drink little tablespoon-sized glasses of this at dinner to show off how much money they spend.

I'd rather drink a pint glass of malort than a shot of Baijiu