Booze

Fusel is a common colloquial term for bad, improperly distilled and - derived from it - for cheap brandies or spirits . In the popular press the term is also used for wines of lower quality.

Illegally produced brandy is also often called fusel: the raw materials used can be inferior and the distillers primitive, and the quality of the end product is correspondingly different. If the forerun was not separated during the distillation or if methanol was specifically added to the product , an excessively high content of it can lead to blindness or even fatal poisoning .

The word is first detectable in Rotwelschen in the early 18th century . A derivation from the Latin fusilis "melted, flowing, liquid" is possible, but not proven.

The name of the fusel oils , which are found in different concentrations in all alcoholic beverages, derives from the term .

Web links

Wiktionary: Fusel - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Fusel. In: Digital dictionary of the German language .
↑ Fusel in the dictionary
↑ Examples from Germany : cheap wine or fine wine. So you don't fall into the lint trap. Image , May 9, 2014, accessed September 30, 2015 . The test with 30 discounter wines: booze or bargain? Rhein-Zeitung , October 24, 2014, accessed on September 30, 2015 .
↑ Examples from Austria : DNA method differentiates quality wine from fusel. Der Standard , August 13, 2002, accessed October 1, 2015 . The Japanese make cheap booze top wine. Krone , February 23, 2006, accessed October 1, 2015 . Buying wine in the supermarket. Wienerin , 2014, accessed October 1, 2015 .
↑ Examples from Switzerland : Fusel makes the retailer stomach ache. In: Blick.ch . December 4, 2006, accessed September 28, 2015 . Caught in your own concept. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 19, 2010, accessed September 28, 2015 . Fusel instead of Brunello: 30,000 bottles of wine confiscated. SRF , April 29, 2014, accessed on September 28, 2015 .
↑ Thomas Geschwinde: Drugs: Market forms and modes of action . Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-30162-9 , pp. 879 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[dwds-1] Fusel. In: Digital dictionary of the German language .

[2] Fusel in the dictionary

[3] Examples from Germany : cheap wine or fine wine. So you don't fall into the lint trap. Image , May 9, 2014, accessed September 30, 2015 . The test with 30 discounter wines: booze or bargain? Rhein-Zeitung , October 24, 2014, accessed on September 30, 2015 .

[4] Examples from Austria : DNA method differentiates quality wine from fusel. Der Standard , August 13, 2002, accessed October 1, 2015 . The Japanese make cheap booze top wine. Krone , February 23, 2006, accessed October 1, 2015 . Buying wine in the supermarket. Wienerin , 2014, accessed October 1, 2015 .

[5] Examples from Switzerland : Fusel makes the retailer stomach ache. In: Blick.ch . December 4, 2006, accessed September 28, 2015 . Caught in your own concept. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 19, 2010, accessed September 28, 2015 . Fusel instead of Brunello: 30,000 bottles of wine confiscated. SRF , April 29, 2014, accessed on September 28, 2015 .

[6] Thomas Geschwinde: Drugs: Market forms and modes of action . Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-30162-9 , pp. 879 ( limited preview in Google Book search).