Ever try Potín?

amandaf675

My neighbour gave me a bottle for my 18th birthday, i was gee-eyed for bout 3 days haha me and alcohol just dont mix

Mary28

Yeah it wasn't my first drink of the night. Don't remember too much about it except it was a lot less smooth than your average whiskey. I was never one for shorts straight though. Remember absolutely nothing after it and the next day wasn't a good day but not sure how much the poitin contributed.

Haruki

Yep, and i quite enjoyed it, can't remember much but, what i can remember is being extremely relaxed and at peace, found it a very different experience from the normal feeling of being drunk. As someone said above it does have an hallucinogenic quality. I wouldn't call it a going out drink, i would recommend a safe environment to par-take because it WILL knock you off balance for hours and HOURS !!!:eek: (Drink-aware people);)

fontanalis

A bit off topic but can anyone give some background to the criminalisation of poitin?
Wouldn't a well regulated (from health point of view) poitin industry be a good thing, anyone know of any efforts to make it legal?

Iwannahurl

Tried some on a few occasions many years ago. Properly made, poitin can be very good indeed. The bad stuff is so bad it's probably not even fit for stripping paint never mind as a muscle rub for greyhounds.

Quality control is not guaranteed: Students warned over illegal poitin containing faeces.

Iwannahurl

fontanalis wrote: »

A bit off topic but can anyone give some background to the criminalisation of poitin?
Wouldn't a well regulated (from health point of view) poitin industry be a good thing, anyone know of any efforts to make it legal?

http://www.irish-poteen.com/consumer/consumer_main.html

lezza

tuxy wrote: »

What's the source of this fine information?

a connemara native with poitin in every corner

punchdrunk

first drink I ever had,we were visiting friends of the family in Galway
they thought my instant gaga reflex on the first sip was hilarious!

thanks Dad!

Kevin Duffy

punchdrunk wrote: »

first drink I ever had,we were visiting friends of the family in Galway
they thought my instant gaga reflex on the first sip was hilarious!

thanks Dad!

Couldn't keep a pokerface, no?

tuxy

lezza wrote: »

a connemara native with poitin in every corner

So an unbiased opinion sounds totally legit to me!

tuxy

Interesting video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_dHFWUOVzw

tuxy

And here's how it's done in America. It's different from Potín but it's there forum of illegal spirits.

The main guy in the video committed suicide to avoid a prison subsentence

Ev84

Drank it once a good few years back, when we all used to bush-drink... had a small 7-up bottle full of pure potín. The lads told me i had a good night anyway :pac:

Couldn't remember s**t, woke up next day at home with a mouth as dry as an Iraqi's tacky and swamped 2 mugs of water, grand... ten minutes later the room was spinning and i was pissed again. Mad s**t that potín is!!!

JohnMearsheimer

I've drank sloe potín with my Dad quite often, it's very nice stuff! He gave me a bottle of it when I left for Vancouver, it's on my desk right now . I very very foolishly drank half the bottle before going out one night. I don't remember it happening but I was walking out in front of cars, had to be propped up against the wall in the pub to keep me from falling over and poured a pint into my wallet so I could take it home. I haven't touched it in 2 months but I might have a drop (only 1) before heading out tomorrow.

Hurricane-Dean

If it's made right it's like getting a massage from an orgasm

lezza

tuxy wrote: »

So an unbiased opinion sounds totally legit to me!

and i never touched alcohol but know of its strengths from personal experiences in local community,

Doc

My dad's uncle used to brew it.
My dad told me that one day he was staying at his uncle’s place and his cousin showed him the potin. The cousin was trying to act the hard man and had a big gulp of the potín. My dad said that he was instantly drunk and falling all over the place. Apparently the bottle he drank from wasn't the finished product and needed to be distilled again or something so it was much higher percentage then it would normally even be. My dad said for the next couple of days if the cousin even had a glass of milk at dinner he was pissed again.
The kind of potín you can buy in the airport or shops isnt the same as the reall thing at all.

lezza

tuxy wrote: »

Interesting video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_dHFWUOVzw

very good find

beano345

http://youtu.be/7kFW9gEpDs8

tuxy

Doc wrote: »

My dad's uncle used to brew it.
Apparently the bottle he drank from wasn't the finished product and needed to be distilled again or something so it was much higher percentage then it would normally even be.

Isn't the purpose of distilling to increase the purity of alcohol content?
Story does not make sense. Unless it was the first 100ml or so out of the distill(which should be discarded) and had a high methanol content. In that case he was lucky not to go blind.

KylieWyley

smelled like paint stripper.


tasted what I can only imagine is worse than paint stripper... even with lemon to dilute it.

Crann na Beatha

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Show Time

Far to many years ago to remember but by Zeus's beard what a kick.

lezza

beano345 wrote: »

http://youtu.be/7kFW9gEpDs8

live near pub in video know the poteen makers son

Doc

tuxy wrote: »

Isn't the purpose of distilling to increase the purity of alcohol content?
Story does not make sense. Unless it was the first 100ml or so out of the distill(which should be discarded) and had a high methanol content. In that case he was lucky not to go blind.

Im not a chemist or brewer and I wasn’t there. My dad was about 15 so probably didn’t know much about it either. He could have drunk the first 100ml I don’t know. All I know is that my dad said after one big gulp he was drunk and any liquids for days after made him drunk again.

beano345

lezza wrote: »

live near pub in video know the poteen makers son

funny man "you have to be fit you know":pac:

southsiderosie

tuxy wrote: »

And here's how it's done in America. It's different from Potín but it's there forum of illegal spirits.

The main guy in the video committed suicide to avoid a prison subsentence

It's not too different; most of the people in that part of the US are descendants of Ulster Scots. You can actually hear it in their accents and music. It's striking how some of the cultural similarities have stood the test of time.

My father used to keep a flask of moonshine from Mississippi in the dining room drawer, but since it came from the same cousins who also used to send him back north with coon and other scary backwoods stuff, I never had the urge to try it. :pac:

Laisurg

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

They have a new drink out now,Paraquat, you should try that as you seem anxious to kill yourself.

Always the buzzkill eh Flutterin?

JupiterKid

I first tried real poitin waay back when I was on a visit up to Donegal relatives back when I about 22 - that was circa 1998. Vile tasting stuff and it had me on my ear within about 30 minutes. Best taken with a mixer.

Once and never again!

Completely overrated but then, they sell the really watered down stuff to Yanks to take back to the States.

mawk

JohnMearsheimer wrote: »

poured a pint into my wallet so I could take it home.

Best sentence ever.

Made some a while ago, its uh, an acquired taste. I enjoyed making the still and terror-drinking the spirit, but the actual distilling is crazy boring.

Actually very easy to make, on balance