Poitin

Glenman

Does anyone know a recipe for Poitin and how its made

the clansman

spuds. have to leave em ferment...then like boil off the alcohol and somehow collect it...oh and your geting arested:D

scojones

This doesn't really help but anyway... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitin

sjones

sjones wrote:

This doesn't really help but anyway... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitin

I love this part:

More precisely, in 1661 King Charles II introduced a levy on spirits in the United Kingdom. In Ireland however it was totally ignored...

C Fodder

TG4 made a very good documentry a few years ago about poitin you could probably order a copy from them. Basically poitin is made from lots of things that I can't tell you about because unlicensed distillation is illegal, which is why Majd has edited my post. The toughening of the anti poitin laws in the last century had more to do with public safety than pure revenue loss due to the dangerous crap being sold. Owning a "worm" or still was enough to get in trouble with the guards in the past and private distilling is still illegal.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

you're better off not distilling unless you really know what your doing, because if you distill at maybe 1 or 2 degrees away from the right temperature, you'll end up with methanol in your drink, which..wont do your body any good

Litcagral

Glenman wrote:

Does anyone know a recipe for Poitin and how its made

Have you ever drank it? It's vile. :eek:

The Sweeper

Unlicensed distillation is illegal kids, mmmkay?