Poteen in pubs

FF and proud

Im terrible fond of the old poteen and enjoy a casual glass now and then but I cant seem to find a pub that serves it which is terrible altogether. Do any of you know if pubs still sell poteen in this day and age because I do be getting shockin thirsty for a sup of poteen after a few pints. I used to get the stuff, but they dont seem to be selling it now for some reason.

orourkeda

Is it still illegal?

It was at one point.

o1s1n

You can get 'legal' bottles in gift shops around Killarney...but to honest poteen really isn't the same without the fear of going blind.

FF and proud

o1s1n wrote: »

You can get 'legal' bottles in gift shops around Killarney...but to honest poteen really isn't the same without the fear of going blind.

Ah sure that watered down legal stuff does be for the sissies, I like the old poteen good and strong.

FF and proud

FF and proud wrote: »

Ah sure that watered down legal stuff does be for the sissies, I like the old poteen good and strong.

make your own then! :pac:

Micky Dolenz

Something smells funny in here.

Mint Sauce

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Something smells funny in here.

That would be the Poteen.

Zemuppet

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Something smells funny in here.

My bad. I ate too much bran flakes and beans on toast today

figarofigaro

I only had it once. Myself and my cousin had a root around for liquor in my granny's house. We found a whiskey bottle with a clear liquid in it. I said "That's either holy water or poitín." I took a sniff and it was definitely not holy water.

RMD

AFAIK there is 2-3 breweries in Ireland that can legally make Poteen, at full strength to.

It's due to it's extreme rarity that you wont be able to find it.

Zemuppet

My dad was slipped some into his glass of water at a Stephen's day family outing by my uncle. He spent 3 days in an awful state

Micky Dolenz

Zemuppet wrote: »

My dad was slipped some into his glass of water at a Stephen's day family outing by my uncle. He spent 3 days in an awful state

Kosovo?

Zemuppet

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Kosovo?

He didn't say where exactly but hinted it was somewhere in the Balkans.
A bad 3 days for him but he said the food was decent

policarp

FF and proud wrote: »

Im terrible fond of the old poteen and enjoy a casual glass now and then but I cant seem to find a pub that serves it which is terrible altogether. Do any of you know if pubs still sell poteen in this day and age because I do be getting shockin thirsty for a sup of poteen after a few pints. I used to get the stuff, but they dont seem to be selling it now for some reason.

Why do you want Poitin in Pubs?

That's too legal...

policarp

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Kosovo?

Oblivion with a hangover...

Whispered

legal poitín? I only saw it once, in an Irish bar abroad. It wasn't the same.

Nothing like a glass at the end of the night after the pub. Lovely with a bit of orange in it I think. I just can't drink it straight.

FoxT

RMD wrote: »

AFAIK there is 2-3 breweries in Ireland that can legally make Poteen, at full strength to.

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'Tis a distillery you'd be wantin', dere boy!

There are ZERO breweries on the planet that can make poitin, regardless of the law.

spider guardian

my grandad used to hide the poitin underneath the bales of hay, he was arrested and executed. the end

carefulnow100

I seen a clearly labelled bottle of poitin one day in an ye olde off licience windowm Waterford I think.

shuvly

I was in engerland 10 yr, but one yr me ma asked where I was gonna be home. I said i was going to cardiff,, me ma not happy, but I met aul lad at 11am,.in an irish pub, we got talkinand ended up drinkinkin feckin awfil poteen, at 11.30AM, in a brown bag


am v.drunk so what my da says is so totally wrong, ..but me da never said that,..so maybe teddy bedtime...

chucken1

FF and proud wrote: »

Ah sure that watered down legal stuff does be for the sissies, I like the old poteen good and strong.

Well, I think if you still speak like this...you 'does be' drinking it all the time.

Paddy_Smith

shuvly wrote: »

I was in engerland 10 yr, but one yr me ma asked where I was gonna be home. I said i was going to cardiff,, me ma not happy, but I met aul lad at 11am,.in an irish pub, we got talkinand ended up drinkinkin feckin awfil poteen, at 11.30AM, in a brown bag


am v.drunk so what my da says is so totally wrong, ..but me da never said that,..so maybe teddy bedtime...

You're good!!! ...i'll give you that.

Ah! the keyboard breathalyser, is indicating "red".

mikemac

Wasn't this OP banned from starting threads in AH just this week?

Rented Mule

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Kosovo?

New Jersey.

FF and proud

carefulnow100 wrote: »

I seen a clearly labelled bottle of poitin one day in an ye olde off licience windowm Waterford I think.

Must look into that.

Asphyxia

My father used to get paid by some pubs to make it for them, they used to send him the ingredients and empty whiskey bottles and he used to dye it to pass it off as whiskey. This is going back about 20 years though, I have only ever seen him make it once when I was a kid it looked like a mad science experiment very intense haha!

rossie1977

FF and proud wrote: »

Ah sure that watered down legal stuff does be for the sissies, I like the old poteen good and strong.

knockeen hills quadruple-distilled is 90%

Dionysus

I had poitín for the first time last year. Like my first bit of hash or my first pint, it didn't do anything for me. After many putrid-tasting pints, and plenty of advertisements romanticising it, I later began to "enjoy" pints. I can't say the same for the other two.

A really good whiskey, on the other hand, can be very enjoyable at Christmas. The scent of it is as traditional as you can get in Ireland, a fact which distinguishes it from that English drink Guinness porter.

Diabhal Beag

Poitin is lethal. I had some at my friend's house over the Summer. Woke up the next day on the stairs with my boxers on my head and my hand on my lad.

GOOD NIGHT THOUGH :pac:

Captain Darling

Tasted it once. Its fcuking rotten.

SomeFool

A drop in a cup of tea is great to put a bit of warmth into the body on a really cold day
I find it way too harsh on it's own.

Leonid

Stop trying to destroy us NARC. We're just trying to have a goood time.

citizen_p

there was a bottle of it in my press....it was in a old smirnoff bottle (ie homemade) and i always remember it being there.

I being 16 immidetly thought it was vodka (smirnoff bottle) and had a glass (not a measure, a glass full, 2 1/2 measures) along with one of my mates... it felt like i was drunk for the next 2 days and it made even water turn into alcohol.

my father said he had it for killing/painkiller injuried/unhealthy lambs. i supose its more humane, and i believe him,
1. it was there for 20 + years and its level hasnt changed much
2. i seen him use it later

Elevator

that reminds me, i paid for a bottle while drinking whiskey/brandy/coke in galway not so long ago

must make a call tomorrow

kjl

We had an old doggie bottle of it that was given to us in a vodka bottle, you know for making Christmas pudding. Now I don't drink so I had left it gathering dust for ages, then it disappeared, didn't think much of it till I found out my house cleaner had to go to hospital to get her stomach pumped. I sure it was a nasty surprise when she realised it wasn't vodka.

bnt

rossie1977 wrote: »

knockeen hills quadruple-distilled is 90%

In other words, it's basically ethanol. Does it actually taste of anything - even potatoes? Someone should try sticking some in an oak barrel for two years, see if it turns in to something interesting! :rolleyes:

Rhyme

RMD wrote: »

AFAIK there is 2-3 breweries in Ireland that can legally make Poteen, at full strength to.

We call it white spirits in the biz.

Auldloon

Got drunk on it a few times and really wouldn't recommend it. The coursing/greyhound crowd always seem to know a supplier.

CorkMan

Some poteen and a bit of Heroin, nothing can beat that.