One of my closest friends is from northern Greece. He said when he was a kid, everybody made their own ouzo, except it was illegal and about 160 proof. Add a few habs to that and you would get a burn that wouldn't care !! It's really a neat layered effect. First you get the licorice, then the strength of the alcohol starts to become apparent (ok it assaults you in a most in-your-palate way), as you recover from that the flavor of the habs shows up and then a long back-of-the-throat hab burn. That's how it is for me, anyway. Scott... You've got to let this stuff age for months... KCK