the clerk had brought in an extra-large ice chest , full to the top , along with a few sandwiches and a cart stocked with every alcoholic drink poncey could think of , and some he couldnt : beer , wine , brandy , ale , absinthe , arrack , gin , mescal , port , rum , schnapps , tequila , vodka , whisky , scotch , rye , bourbon , sake , mead , jenever , grappa , horilka , akvavit , rakia and poitn .