In fact, so destructively corrosive is the toxic brew, several of the regulars can only drink a pint of it at a time. Anyway, that's a task best related when I'm sure that you, dear reader, aren't eating, although the resulting effluent emanating from the constipated system has been described as being similar in colour, texture, and odour to what comes spraying out the rear end of a warthog suffering from irritable bowel syndrome. The liquor itself is far worse, though. Even the rats, who due to the nature of Skullenia are used to ingesting organic matter that wouldn't have looked out of place on the field of Agincourt half an hour after the English and the French had stopped messing about, had abandoned the cellar due to being disgusted at the dining arrangements and an increasing incid

