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The Opinionated MxMo CVII, March 21, 2016: Burden of Proof

So I am late again. For cocktail sake - do I really need to set a reminder, for every single month, that I am not "oversleeping it"? Fortunately we are in the Middle East, which are few hours before the US... at least. First things first:the topic comes from  Dagreb of the  Nihil Utopia  blog and this is his shortened announcement:  My theme this time is overproof. Or rather how you utilize overproofs.  Do you sub them into your standards? Save them for accents in particular recipes? Pour them into ceramic volcanoes and set them on fire? Reserve them only for making liqueurs? Whatever it be I’m looking for your recipes that use overproofs as a base or as modifier in a noticeable -WAIT-  “What’s an overproof,” you ask? “Well, uh, yeah…”  First let’s decide what is proof. It’s my party so I say 50% abv is proof. Above that is overproof. You disagree? Host your own party! (No really  host a MxMo , it’ll be fun.) So BIB [100 proof Barreled i...