Wow, you are bringing back some memories. Olde E was charcoal filtered...and tasted like liquid charcoal. To offset the effects, we would always have a bottle of Malt Duck available. Malt Duck was an impossibly sweet Malt Liquor, flavored with grape. You would drink some Olde E, then wash it down with some Duck....and wait for the intoxication and queasiness to begin! Many a night was spent with friends drinking this concoction in the early 1980's.