I'm doing something tonight that I NEVER do on Mondays (shhh, don't tell anyone!) 
For years I've been haunted by this eastern European spirit...
The EMBM (I'm not going into details here about who THAT is) used to rave about some Czech plum brandy he'd drunk somewhere.
And when I went to Hungary in 2000, at a party on a hillside overlooking the Danube (under the full moon, of course), I drank this wonderful nectar... but couldn't remember what it was called.
At the airport, I bought Unicom - big mistake, as it was disgusting 
The bottle is still sitting in our cupboard.
When the neighbours had a barbecue, everyone took whatever weird booze they had and shared it around (I brought out my Unicom that night too, but no one would touch it). Someone brought this Czech stuff - and - there it was again 
- but I still didn't make a note of what it was called
On Wednesday,we had a palinka tasting in the camp - but that wasn't it either 
I tried describing it to Istvan - and he suggested it might be Becherovka - so I picked up a bottle at the airport...
and I'm having a little tipple now (tee hee!!!)
Couldn't swear that it's the same stuff, as I probably haven't had the appropriate combination of alcohol to precede it...
But it's pretty nice (a bit like Campari 
- only totally different ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becherovka
