Poitín now legal to drink in Ireland as first license given [Poteen, moonshine]

Irish Central ^ | December 30, 2016 05:36 AM | IrishCentral Staff

[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. …

[Monkey Face]

OK, Ganag! It’s official! We is moved. As usual, chocolate chip cookies and hot chocolate are available in the library, and the bar may have some hot, buttered rum, for those so inclined!

Thanks, Darksheare!

[Monkey Face]

And thanks, Olog-hai, for allowing us to use this thread. We were almost homeless! ;o]

‘Face

[FourtySeven]

I still have an iPod Nano that I’ve been meaning to resurrect but I lost the charger for it. It’s one of those older kind for Apple products not the lightening cable used today.

Anyone know if it’s still for sale anywhere? I guess I should try Amazon, but I feel like I’ve been enslaved to Amazon recently I wouldn’t mind spending money elsewhere.

[Darksheare]

Welcome, and thanks!

[Monkey Face]

I always go to eBay for things like that, as Amazon is pretty over-priced. eBay will let you use PayPal Credit if you have it. And a lot of things, even small ones, have free shipping.

I get a lot of books there for not a lot of money!

[Monkey Face]

It’s good to see you, Darks! I know you’ve been very busy, but we have noticed your absence, for sure. *hug*

[ArGee]

Oh - (hic) - kay!

Say - (hic) - did the topic of this - (hic) - thread have any influ - (hic) - influ - (hic) - did it get into the - (hic) - hot - (hic) - choc

[ArGee]

[FourtySeven]

Awesome thanks.

[Monkey Face]

No thanks necessary! Just please pay it forward. :o]

[Darksheare]

Busy, having to -still- migrate to a larger hard drive.
AND the job being annoying.

[Monkey Face]

Yes, I understand all of that, and we are grateful when you take out time from your busy life to move us.

Sionnsar would be proud of this current move! ;o]

[Darksheare]

I just wish there were more threads at the right time for us.
But.. ugh.

[Monkey Face]

Still, when we’re done with them, they are pretty well trashed, so I’d say it’s a job well done to find us a new one!

[null and void]

Here!

[Dead Corpse]

And now... Some nice relaxing Viking music...

2015 Vikings Suite

[stephenjohnbanker]

Viking music to go with Darks’ coffee.....life is WIRED !

[Tax-chick]

I have a tiny iPod, too. It has a set of lectures on it. I last used it five years ago when I was having a colonoscopy.

[zeugma]

Here's me listening to your relaxing Viking music...

[Darksheare]

Well, there is this.