Still Smarter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkE24XL3l7I

53 minutes. The recording quality is dodgy in the first few minutes.

Thanks for that mr C, are you sure you have not been
watching period lesbian dramas with HWMBO.
Need my pills, and Orange Gin. She is trying to
turn me into one. Okay I will go, just smother me in
Honey and throw me in, feet first please.

LOL. I'll have a glass of that.

@ gaza, that HWMBO. needs an S mate.
@ Curmudgeon, that signature text took a couple of button presses to read mate, are you planning on sneaking a whole book in there?

Robert.

I just won a bet with myself that you would be the first to comment, though not necessarily the first to notice.

I'm glad the bet was with yourself, it keeps the money in the family.

Robert.

You mean keeps his money in his pocket, not saying Mr C is
tight or anything,but have heard he can peel an Orange in
his pocket in 19 seconds flat. I am not going to argue with
any man with that legendary pocket speed.

Here’s a better version:

https://youtu.be/I1HGVzx6694

When I was watching this, I realised that I’d seen it before, years ago.
Maybe it left a sub-conscious impression on me!

Well, that’s my newest excuse anyway.

Love the first line(thats my attention span). In almost any country
you will find an illegally made drink.
No 1 I think an ill Eagle is a sick bird.
No 2 Every drop I make is therefore " Sick Bird".
Anyone for Albatross Gin?
Go on ED you know you want to A1 A!
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind bat!!
What about " The Norwegian Blue".
Okay will shut up and get back to my Gin now

I'm not sure that you left it mate!

Robert.

An interesting watch. If Poteen was traditionally from grain, why is the popular/urban myth of using potatoes more prevalent?

I can vouch for that fact it is proper loopy juice when made from taters.

Potatoes were cheap and readily available so became more popular over time.

Very little sugar conversion in potatoes, you need lots of them.

Yup, but easy enough to grow,just about anywhere,(Potato blight excepted).
We are talking history here, the days before HB stores, even before gaza's were born,

Robert.

I think it's in the film somewhere, that the excise watched the mills while Robert quietly grew potatoes in his ears.

Apparently my ancestors can be traced back to Wales, bhoyo (no idea how that is wrtten), at least around 1850.
Before then I suspect that we were tinkers, or at least some nomadic folk, feasting upon hedgehogs or gerbils, on a good day, and drinking fermented who knows what for high days and holidays.

I am a man of the land.
Somewhere.


Robert.

I am a man of the town and can indeed be found tearing
round the countryside in a large V8 something most
weekends.

So in more recent times, spuds seem to have become the "starch of choice" purely on price.

If that's correct, fair enough. After all, we all suffer from the "Victorian thrift" concept in some way or another......

Let's face it, when we find some cheap sugar, we buy some then post about it so others can check out wherever it came from........

Wouldn't mind trying spuds, but from what I can find/learn, it's quite a faff getting the must/wort prepared etc. I try to avoid "faff" at every opportunity....

gaza the instructor wrote: Fri Jul 12, 2019 8:06 am I am a man of the town and can indeed be found tearing
round the countryside in a large V8 something most
weekends.

Classic - well done.

phantom wrote: Sat Jul 13, 2019 9:45 am
Wouldn't mind trying spuds, but from what I can find/learn, it's quite a faff getting the must/wort prepared etc. I try to avoid "faff" at every opportunity....

It is the biggest FAFF ever to blight mankind [see what I did there].
Boil em, roast em, mash em, chip em, dry em, fry em but for the sake of your sanity don't try fermenting em. It probably easier to cut the lawn with nail scissors. Not a fan

100% Mash and if you do it in the Summer, the flies are thick and nasty.
Nursy stopped wearing nicks to keep the flies of her Melon.

I was looking to watch this again, but the You Tube censors have pulled it!

Very disappointing.
Bill

Well according to Chase Distillery it takes 250 potatoes to make 1 bottle of vodka.
Converted with enzymes.

I remember reading once that it is put through a pot still 3 or 4 times, before a couple of passes through their multiple plated column still.
That seems to me to be a lot of FAFF - and a very low yield.

It is indeed, and one that people on modern state benefits would not chase.
But, to a piss poor tenant farmer a couple of hundred years ago, in search of Loopy Juice?
They worked with what they had.
And could probably feed any waste to livestock.
I cannot imagine such hardship.
Poteen really has little romance attched in the real world.

Robert.