They have tinkered with the recipe and when the new bottles hit store shelves next month, they will have dropped the alcohol content by 6 proof, from 90, which it has been for over half a century, to 84.

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Everything was so affordable that I gorged on the local salty, bread-like oscypek cheese, eye-wateringly cheap cherry vodka and Polish Mountain Tea (tea with a double shot of spirytus, 190 proof and 95% alcohol).

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Liquor must list alcohol content by volume and may also list proof, a measure of alcoholic strength.

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When the company announced plans to cut the alcohol content in its bourbon from 45 percent (90 proof) to 42 percent (84 proof) due to supply problems, customers were mad.

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Because the initial distillation takes it to a very high proof, in excess of 90% pure alcohol, the base ingredient hardly matters because the taste is lost as it converted to practically neutral alcohol.

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Redbreast cask strength is neither diluted with water nor chill-filtered, another standard step, which leaves it with a slightly murkier color and noticeably stronger proof, 115 vs. the usual 80, or 57.7% alcohol vs. 40%.

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But psychiatry as a field has been skeptical of the idea of people being addicted to behaviors, because there is not proof that a bad habit is the same kind of biological issue as a dependence on alcohol, nicotine, or heroin.

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