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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And so, Ganag, I’m calling it a day, since I’ve been awake since 0200 PST. All y’all will just have to try and get along without my stellar observations!
See ya tomorrow!
Afternoon. I’m glad you have electricity. I love electricity!
Veronica Lake was beautiful. We watched “I Married a Witch” recently; very amusing. She was also in that Depression film about the journalist who went off and discovered the lives of the downtrodden first hand, whatever it was called.
Funny, that’s what B&N smells like around here. Probably because they have bathrooms for customers and the homeless use them.
The books on my phone don’t smell at all.
I’d call it a day, too. I’ll be awash in Poteen ‘fore I can figure out what else to call it.
Unfortunately, it’s present tense until I can get off work.
Then I get to move the car to the alternate side.
That’s life in the big city.
We were at our very nice public library this morning. Also our very nice Wells Fargo bank, where I had to go in because the ATM wasn’t accepting deposits. (I didn’t say they were competent: just nice.)
I checked out “The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End” by Robert Gerwarth. I have been wanting to read this book for several years, but it wasn’t published until 2016.
Or no car move tonight. Apparently we have solidified globull warming forecast between now and tomorrow morning and DSNY (that’s my agency) wants us to stay off the street.
You think I’d have known about this before now, being on the inside and all, but NOOOOOOO.
Just occurred to me:
Why don’t nooooo and moooo rhyme?
Is it because cows don’t understand English vowels or because people don’t?
I'm not really up on karma, but I have wondered if karma sutra is what happens to adulterers?
First ATMs were free. Then banks started charging. Now they have attitudes.
Fortunately, the McDonalds kiosks are well mannered.
Our other bank gave us a refund in the $25 range on our mortgage escrow account and lowered our payment almost $2/month.
Maybe Trump is already causing the “too big to care - er - fail” banks to re-think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p62uutgNN4c
I think it was just a small adjustment in our homeowners’ insurance charge. Navy Federal was never too big.
I had occasion, years ago, to go into a Navy Federal facility in the Naval Academy at Annapolis. They had a functional wooden phone booth which may still be in operation.
It’s good for their circulation...
Absolutely. I thought it was very energetic.
There was a branch in Virginia Beach, and I think there’s one or more in Florida.
Neat note about our friend Einar... He actually researched music from around 1000AD Scandinavia. Made most of his instruments himself and formed the band Wardruna. Released a trilogy of CD's with each song based off of historic Norse meter, instruments, and with various Runes as the inspiration for each song.
Good stuff... IMO.
Yeah!
I’ll take this.
Talk with you all tomorrow.
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