From Atlantic Unbound – Interview with Hunter S. Thompson:

[A bottle of Wild Turkey is introduced.]

HST: Aw, man. I drank this like some sort of sacrament
for — I mean, constantly — for I think fifteen years. No
wonder people looked at me funny. No offense. This is
what I drank, and I insisted on it and I drank it constantly
and I liked it. Jesus. I laid off it for six months and went
back to it — an accident one night, in a bar — and it
almost knocked me off the stool. It’s like drinking
gasoline. I thought, what the fuck…?