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Quaich1
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 Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 4:04 pm Post subject: New Moonshiners "reality" TV show on Discovery Ch |
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I've been watching the first few episodes on TV of the purported reality show Moonshiners showing folk from Appalachia making illegal moonshine from corn and the mystique associated with it. They also covered the legal distillation and sale of moonshine as well and the licenses and permits involved. Anyone ever taste the stuff? Sounds pretty raw stuff.
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Grant M
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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I have never tried moonshine whisky but i suppose the closest thing to it i have tried is Irish Poteen which i suppose you could say is Irish moonshine. It is a very high strength alcohol spirit which has been distilled in Ireland in small home made pot stills for hundreds of years. Here is some info on it from The Whisky Exchange who now sell the legal version of it today: | Quote: | POTEEN
Made in Ireland since the early 17th Century, poteen or poitin translates as 'little pot' a term referring to the small, home-made stills in which it is usually produced. Traditionally made from either potatoes or grain, the production of poteen was outlawed in 1661, and remained illegal until the late 1990s.
Despite this, illicit poteen remained widely available in Ireland, where the rewards associated with the lucrative Christmas demand for the product provided a bonanza for the many moonshiners dotted throughout the country.
A variety of tests were advised to test the quality of any illicit poteen before consumption. These included setting fire to the spirit to see what colour the flame was (purple was deemed good, red or orange bad), or adding it to milk to see if it caused curdling.
Nowadays, there are a small number of legal poteen brands available on the market, and while it should not be drunk neat due to its high alcoholic strength, the product is beginning to enjoy a reputation as a brilliant spirits base for cocktails. Poteen can also be mixed to good effect with most of the normal mixers associated with vodka.
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It is powerful stuff, TWE have some bottled at 90% ABV  |
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Big Mac
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 1:42 am Post subject: |
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| 90% i think you may have to add more than a dash of water |
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bifter
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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The Cooley distillery turned out some poitin recently but it's a more civilised 65%:
http://www.liquidirish.com/2011/11/new-cooley-poitin.html
Should really be posting this in the Irish Whiskey section!
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