[DannyTN]

Dominican Republic connection?

[tflabo]

Stick with the beer and wine. Another crown jewel contribution from Latin America.

[cuban leaf]

he government has confiscated about 30,000 bottles of alcohol suspected to be poisoned, under the brands Guaro Montano, Guaro Gran Apache, Aguardiente Estrella, Aguardiente Barón Rojo, Aguardiente Timbuka and Molotov Aguardiente.

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I see Maker’s Mark, Greygoose and Johnny Walker are not in that list.

Heck, Kirkland isn’t on that list.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Today I went shopping for a 93 year-old and when I got to the supermarket I saw beer and wine on the list.

[ClearCase_guy]

I guess its hard to find decent rum in that part of the world ...

[jonascord]

I wonder if this is just an industrial accident? Apply Hanlon's Razor:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

It would be no great trick for someone at the plant to be in a hurry, and bottle an entire still run.

[\/\/ayne]

Candy's dandy but liquor is quicker
you can drink all the liquor down in Costa Rica...

Well, apparently you can't.

[Yaelle]

Thank goodness the ahauasca is still untainted ;)

[Boomer]

A lot of people died during prohibition the same way. Methanol is the first product that comes out of the still. It must be removed or it poisons the entire batch.

Using radiators with lead as a still also created lots of problems with lead poisoning.

Cutting corners or the unintended consequences...

[PeterPrinciple]

alcohol vs methonol

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=alcohol+vs+methanol&view=detail&mid=8EC363F0A88074742CDC8EC363F0A88074742CDC&FORM=VIRE

[PGR88]

Uh - I predicted that when this story first broke.

I saw the same thing in Asia about 30. years ago.

On the other hand though, its still amazing to me though what some truly degraded sub-humans will do for a few $$.

[moovova]

Some FR person here nailed it about the second death in...

But do you think they’d ask us?

Nooooo...of course not. They gotta bumble around on their own, taking their time, blaming it on global warming, Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, or bad fish.

[Boogieman]

Remember, they were blaming these deaths on all sorts of “natural causes” until so many tourists died that nobody could believe they weren’t connected.

Makes you wonder how many solitary tourist deaths they have swept under the rug to protect the industry in the past...

[vetvetdoug]

Makes me wonder about all of the news articles in the MSM that say Costa Rica is a great place for ex pat US citizens to retire. I’ve read three articles within the last month that push Costa Rica for a cheap place to live for US citizens.