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• n  any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality

• They sound like Hollywood moguls swearing off R-rated rotgut for the 12-step program of PG uplift.
• In 1985, when Gorbachev raised vodka prices and destroyed local vineyards, Russia's drinkers simply turned into bootleggers, churning out bathtubs full of rotgut called samogon .
• It serves more than 200 brands of the Mexican drink--varieties derived from the juice of the spiky agave plant and far pricier than the sugarcane-diluted rotgut of college frat .

News & Articles

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• Treasure: Butte man spent youth digging up, selling old bottles
  Yesterday’s miners tossed these bottles of rotgut whiskey or alehouse swill into the dump without a second thought, but an enterprising Butte teen turned the trash into a virtual fortune nearl…
  Aug. 18, 2013 - The Montana Standard

Quotes

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• Bill Mauldin in Wall Street Journal
  Given the danger of ersatz liquor, one of Kickapoo Joy Juice's main virtues was that it was "less corrosive than the bootleg stuff the Italian civilians offered," Mauldin wrote. "The local rotgut made many who drank it 'crazy' drunk, not...
• Andrea Immer Robinson in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  I think Two Buck Chuck had a lot to do with that,Immer said. "They discovered inexpensive wine wasn't rotgut. They don't look at $10 wines with suspicion."