I credit Ouzo for providing the decisive edge that allowed me to win an air guitar contest in a harborside bar in Souda Bay way back in 1985.
I still get the heaves when someone cracks a seal on a bottle of that stuff.
I had a similar experience in Lutjenburg, but with Jagermeister. It involved a dice game at the local discotheque. I stopped counting after the 12th shot. The chaser was Holsten Pils. I was 25 or 26 at the time.