Poitin

.E_C_K_S. · 29-03-2011 06:00PM

Just had some the other night to top of our pre drinks before we went clubbing. Was demented for most of the night and felt like ****e in the morning:(

Buceph · 29-03-2011 06:20PM

One of the lads we go on tour with has a fairly regular supplier of it. He keeps it in a big bottle and puts it into a hip flask when we're ready to head out. Everyone so often we'll dip into it for a little one of Billy Connoly's "nippy sweeties" had some great nights fuelled by it.

One time after though it gave me fierce indigestion, and I had it for a couple of days afterwards. Turned out he had gotten it from a different maker than usual.

And another time someone arrived with a bottle of it to a houseparty. I was bladdered as it was anyway, but I could have sworn the potin tasted like baileys. Seemed my taste buds had burned off with the alcohol.

But yeah, I've had it so often it's nothing special now. Just a strong drink to get you going. Or a warmer while we're walking between places.

blaze1 · 29-03-2011 07:06PM

Never tried potchin but me ma had Portuguese fire water.

Picture me coming in a bit pissed and making a dive for the bottle while she was out, and then proceeding to redecorate the bathroom.

She geniunely though I was just ill looking after me....

Then picture 2-3 days later when she copped what i'd been drinking hahah was battered around the gaff... (was about 14)

Aoifey! · 29-03-2011 07:57PM

When I was 15 my friend's father used to have a big bottle of it hidden away, or so he thought. We drank half the bottle over a couple of nights and refilled it with vodka.

I can't remember anything that happened those nights, it's just all one big blur.

chin_grin · 29-03-2011 08:03PM

Never tried it. What's the difference between it and moonshine (I know, I know. "Ask a silly question").

Reason I ask though is cos; couple years ago mate and I were in Glasgow walking back to another mates apartment from a gig. We bump in to some more of the gang that we lost a while back and one of them hands me a water bottle and goes "Dya wan some?".

So I take a glug thinking it's water, only to proceed to cough for the next five minutes. Was good sh!t.

seanybiker · 29-03-2011 08:13PM

Supposedly some people rub poitin into greyhounds legs before a race. Dunno what it does.
Me grandfather used to drunk it out of a mug. Its alright.
Everclear is a good drink

Azureus · 29-03-2011 08:19PM

Never tried it. I would though if someone had it around me.
Italian grappa was probably the closest Ive had to it aswell...really does blow the head off ya. Great stuff though.

Poor Craythur · 29-03-2011 08:39PM

My uncle used to distil the stuff. The guards knew about it but he was always tipped off as to when they were going to raid and cleared his bunker before they arrived!

Same uncle now has alcohol dementia.

Eric Cartman · 29-03-2011 08:40PM

gerrycollins wrote: »

When I was ages in single digits if I had a sore tooth my father used to make a mouthwash for me of poitin, boiled water and sugar and rinse my mouth out worked all the time.

suppose if your nerves get burned away you cant feel the pain

TPD · 29-03-2011 08:40PM

A friend of mine brought some back from a holiday, rough stuff. Smelled exactly like vomit.

Big Nasty · 29-03-2011 08:57PM

A good 25 years back my Da was at a christmas party and 'won' a boobie prize of what he thought was TK White Lemonade - it wasn't and I was 11!

29-03-2011 09:10PM

seanybiker wrote: »

Supposedly some people rub poitin into greyhounds legs before a race. Dunno what it does.
Me grandfather used to drunk it out of a mug. Its alright.
Everclear is a good drink

Best thing ever if you get a new born lamb on a wet cold night that's almost dead. Bring him in beside the fire and rub poitin on him. Saved many lambs!

davyjose · 29-03-2011 09:12PM

ElaElaElano wrote: »

My aul fella coerced me into drinking it when I was 12, if that's not child abuse I don't know what is.

It's child abuse. Your Dad's a bit of a scumbag tbh.

Sunnyisland · 29-03-2011 09:26PM

Drank it on many ocassions ,Burned the throat & stomach from you, If you drank enough of it and you drank water the next day you would be drunk again also if you got a bad bottle it would leave you in a heap.

jippers87 · 29-03-2011 09:31PM

My boyfriend and I shared a bottle of it once over a few evenings.
Was a present from the land lord and was honestly the nicest alcoholic drink ever!
Had to be careful as it gets ya p***ed pretty quick but no hangover whatsoever!
Would love another bottle!

kumate_champ07 · 30-03-2011 11:31PM

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

100% will more than likely either kill you or just destroy your insides and kill you slowly.

When alcohol is "100%" it's not exactly 100% as that defies physics or chemistry or something (since once it's mixed with water, even the moisture in the air it's no longer 100%). I think the highest that is consumable (technically as a liquid) is 99.5%. but it's not actually meant to be drank.

96% is the highest without adding chemicals to keep it stable at higher percentages. was given a taste of it in Mexico without being told the percentage! and of course I bought a bottle and brought it home

ScumLord · 30-03-2011 11:37PM

I'm from the west of Ireland, you have to have poteen as a right of passage.

On the millennium I got a few bottles and was giving people cups of it as they came into the house party. Was a bad idea they started dropping like flies, one lad didn't make it past the front door, became completely paralysed but still fairly lucid. Went into the sitting room and another guy was panned out on the floor crying his eyes out singing stairway to heaven.

Chaotic_Forces · 30-03-2011 11:39PM

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

96% is the highest without adding chemicals to keep it stable at higher percentages. was given a taste of it in Mexico without being told the percentage! and of course I bought a bottle and brought it home

Well yes, but I didn't see the problem in mentioning what the highest possible percentage was?

Oh_Noes · 30-03-2011 11:45PM

I tried it a few times, we drank it by the capful. I had tried methylated spitis before and it was similar. Ij just feels like your tongue has dissolved to nothing and then you get a very extreme whiskey-kick.

bnt · 30-03-2011 11:52PM

I had the chance to try some peach moonshine (mampoer) when I was living in South Africa. I didn't have much - once I got my breath back, I guessed that indulging any further would have been a Very Bad Idea. That stuff is kwaai (evil). :eek:

mahamageehad · 30-03-2011 11:53PM

Chaotic_Forces wrote: »

100% will more than likely either kill you or just destroy your insides and kill you slowly.

When alcohol is "100%" it's not exactly 100% as that defies physics or chemistry or something (since once it's mixed with water, even the moisture in the air it's no longer 100%). I think the highest that is consumable (technically as a liquid) is 99.5%. but it's not actually meant to be drank.

Ah ok because I have a memory of using pure alcohol to preserve spiders for biology and being told that it could kill you... (something about how it reacts to water)
Had black absinth before (85-90%) and tbh you can't even drink it it just dissolves into burning and is absorbed i suppose, by the time you swallow there ain't much left. Hard to explain, someone might do a better job than me.

seanybiker wrote: »

Supposedly some people rub poitin into greyhounds legs before a race. Dunno what it does.
Me grandfather used to drunk it out of a mug. Its alright.
Everclear is a good drink

Warms the muscles up. We've used it on calves and thighs for long distance cycles.

True story- we do a charity cycle every year from Tipp to somewhere. Its about 80% amateurs and for most of them (including me) it's the one time a year they get on a bike. Destinations have included Doolin, Tramore, Cobh... Anyway last year we went to Lahinch. Some of the old lads always bring a bottle of poitin and take a shot during the breaks (after about 2 hours or so) and put a shot on their hands to tap it on their leg muscles.

Anyways 1 guy had made a mixture of poitin and deep heat for the ultimate leg muscle reliever. (He didn't drink alcohol). So I use his magic recipe stuff on my thighs just as we leave Limerick. My boyfriend comes over acting the hard man (culchies :rolleyes:) and takes a serious swig of it. Projectile vomits everywhere, including in the window of an accompanying cop car. Never laughed so hard in all my life. :P

Chaotic_Forces · 30-03-2011 11:59PM

mahamageehad wrote: »

Ah ok because I have a memory of using pure alcohol to preserve spiders for biology and being told that it could kill you... (something about how it reacts to water)
Had black absinth before (85-90%) and tbh you can't even drink it it just dissolves into burning and is absorbed i suppose, by the time you swallow there ain't much left. Hard to explain, someone might do a better job than me.

I believe it literally does destroy your insides. It would basically wreck your body completely. I forget if it's something to do with the nerve receptors (as mentioned earlier) or how it affects you exactly but yes, it will at the very least leave you in a distubingly bad state.

Poitin

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