Posted on 12/30/2016 5:08:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
After generations of his family spent their lives as outlaws for making the infamous Irish poitín, Pádraic Ó Griallais has finally been able to carry out the family business in the open just under a decade after the spirit was outlawed.
Taking a career break from his job as a high school teacher to establish a new business based on his old family recipe, Ó Griallais is free to produce and sell the highly alcoholic spirit as he pleases without the interference of the Gardaí [Irish police], who hounded the previous poitín distillers in his family with raids to put a stop to the production of the beverage that was outlawed from 1661 to 1997 due to excise regulations.
The production of the spirit was regulated by the Irish Department of Agriculture in 1997 but only under their specific regulations. Luckily the regulations still allow Ó Griallais to use the botanical bogbean that grows around his family’s homeland around Indreabhán, County Galway, that makes their specific recipe so special. …
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Cue “Raiders of the Lost Ark” scene of Miriam drinking that Tibetan (or Nepalanese?) under the table.
“Cue “Raiders of the Lost Ark” scene of Miriam drinking that Tibetan (or Nepalanese?) under the table.”
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Or...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT4d7PIFFKM&feature=youtu.be&t=174
Celtic white lightnin’.
CC
Export it to Canada and they can have Poteen with their Poutine.
Experienced some of the local illegal product in Derry in ‘95.
White Lightning.
Throw away your pills
It will cure all ills
A pagan,a Christian,a Jew
Take off your coat
And grease your throat
With the real old mountain dew
Karen Allen’s scene was more epic. She should have been in the “Temple of Doom,” instead of Spielberg’s future wife.
Kinda takes some of the fun out of it.
“Karen Allen’s scene was more epic. She should have been in the “Temple of Doom,” instead of Spielberg’s future wife.”
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I’ll have to take your say so on it - I’ve never seen any of the Indiana Jones movies. Adventure-action movies in general just never were my cuppa tea.
“Please try this link for Miriam!”
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Thanks for the context. She holds up pretty well in the drinking contest!
If I read that right, it was outlawed for hundreds of years because the govt couldn’t effectively tax it.
The licensing (and taxing) of private distilleries has worked out well economically for several states in the U.S., as well as increasing the variety of beverages available.
May we use this as the January Undead Thread?
I certainly don’t object.
He certainly doesn’t object!
Let’s get moved while I’m in a cleaning frame of mind! We could find Bill’s (now antique) iPod that I lost when he was 16!
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