Should Poitin (Poteen) Be Legalised? Lettermullan, Co. Galway, Ireland 1977
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- Illicit poteen production in Connemara and a proposal to legalise it could provide a much needed jobs boost for the local economy.
Lettermullan in the Connemara Gaeltacht is the setting for a battle of wits between Gardaí and poteen makers. There was a time when poteen (poitín) making was almost exclusively confined to the pre-Christmas period for those willing to take the risks, but it is now a financially lucrative year-round operation - if you can keep one step ahead of the law.
Local Garda Superintendent Patrick Gallagher says that in 1976 alone, there were 49 seizures of illegally brewed beer and poteen, with a value of £63,000.
Gaeltacht co-operative, Comharchumann Cois Fharraige, has researched the benefits of legalising the production of poteen and claims that the establishment of small, local distilleries could create a £20 million business. Spokesman Michael Lally talks about the prospects of legalisation involving licensing, and quality control, and envisions,
A tightly controlled operation, not a free for all.
There were some who were prepared to admit that they had made poteen once upon a time. Paddy Moran, along with his brother and father, made poteen on a small scale, but stopped when it became too risky. He was lucky enough never to be caught by the Gardaí, as he always made sure his bicycle lights were working when he was out and about on the roads at night.
But it’s not just about the financial gains, or the cat and mouse game with authorities. Dr Connell Cunningham describes delirium tremens and cardiac damage as two of the risks associated with poteen consumption. He does not recommend the old cure of a drop of poteen for treatment of flu.
I don’t think poteen has any place in the treatment of any condition.
Father Leo Morahan, the parish priest of Rosmuc, acknowledges that in olden times poteen was brewed out of necessity, so that people could pay off their debts before Christmas. He does not agree however with poteen production as a money making business, and objects to the current situation, which has resulted in poor quality poteen being sold. Father Morahan gives a philosophical view on the legality of poteen production,
Theologians have long been divided on whether it is morally wrong always to do what’s legally wrong in civil law.
A ‘Newsround’ report broadcast on 23 January 1977. The reporter is Jim Fahy. 
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I love how the whole report is: For this illegal product you need: two 40 gallon barrels, three stone fo barley, two stone of sugar and a wee bit of yeast. After following this easy step by step guide you can make about 380 to 390 pounds per barrel. But the part thats the most fun is when the lads in blue come over for a bit of hide and seek
That and the cost to profit rundown by the inspector/exciseman , its almost like he's promoting it as a legit business.
I had forgot that phrase Parlement whisky.
There is a great video/documentary somewhere on youtube about an actual step by step guide to making poitín, and it really isn't that simple.
Sounds good
The boy in blue wrecked the ceiling with his arse.
Where I grew up, rural east county Limerick, we pronounce it poteen. When I left there, my country, my people (sometimes I hide my tears and weep alone, ashamed because I left my country and my people, now forever lost) My father gave me a bottle of poteen for to give to his brother who I would meet in NYC when I arrived there at JFK. This was 1963. Half way through the flight, somewhere over mid Atlantic, I feel a wetness in my chest, it’s the god-dam poteen spilling out , too much high altitude. When I got off the plane I smelled like a total alcoholic. My future brother-in-law and sister were there to greet me... we still laugh about it. I live in California now, I am retired. I have a family and a beautiful home but hardly a day goes by that I don’t remember where I came from.
Limerick still here waiting for you my friend.
Come back ❤
@@kori5679 thank you friend, ...some day I will, I still have friends there, frozen in time, and my parents grave, I want to pull away the weeds and put some flowers there...shed a tear or two... and then I’m gonna go have a pint or two...or three, lol.
@@kori5679 now... all is lost, I fear... the zombies are breaking down the door...
But wait, there is a glimmer... a crack of light...
A six pax of Guinness on the floor
It’s not cold, but who gives...
I drink
The zombies are no more...
@Ryan Powell ha, ha, and so started my long career as a working alcoholic...I’ll blame my father, he should never have trusted me with that responsibility, lol
Brilliant story Joe, in Los Angeles myself!
‘I spent my money on horses, women, and drink, and I squandered the rest!’
Slow horses and fast women were the ruination of many a man.
Georgey Best
@@MrAussieUK Indeed. George Best recounted the story of how he went on a date with the woman who had just won the Miss World contest. They went to the races and won several thousand pounds. That evening Best and Miss World laid the money out on the bed of their hotel room to count it. At that moment, a hotel waiter knocked on the door to bring them the two bottles of champagne they’d ordered to celebrate. The waiter, still mindful of Best’s early retirement from football, handed over the champagne, looked at the beautiful Miss World, looked at the thousands of pounds and then said to Best: “George, where did it all go wrong?”
@@terrymurphy2032 😂😂👍
Originally said by John Conteh not George Best.
My grandad always had a still out on the farm. I always wondered if that was the root cause or the solution to having 11 kids.
Both
😂😂😂💚🇮🇪
Usually having a farm has alot to do with it, why do the work yourself when you can spawn an entire work crew to do it for you.
@@Killenmachine05 I know what that's all about. I grew up on a farm and was put to work as soon as I could walk. I loved it though.
They do this all time in eastern poland, even have special benzin shops that sell equipment to make it boilers- pipes- mash barrels- proper yeast bars- copper tubing etc it. I hate the stuff too strong.
Let the grasses grow and the waters flow in a free and easy way
Just give me enough of the fine old stuff that's brewed near Galway Bay
Come gougers all from Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim too
We'll give them the slip and we'll take a sip of the rare old mountain dew
lovely
Well said brother
Yeeeeoooo!!
Hi di diddle eidle dum diddly oodle didle dum
diddly doo dum diddly ai-aye
Hi di diddle eidle dum diddly oodle idle dum
diddly doo dum diddly ai day!
At the foot of the hill there's a neat little still
where the smoke curls up in the sky,
By the smoke and the smell you can clearly tell
there's poitín brewing nearby!
It fills the air with odor rare, and entices me and you
And as home we stroll we'll all take a bowl
or a bucket of the mountain dew!
Hi di diddle eidle dum diddly oodle didle dum
diddly doo dum diddly ai-aye
Hi di diddle eidle dum diddly oodle idle dum
diddly doo dum diddly ai day!
Now learned men who use the pen
Have wrote their praises high
of the sweet poitín from Ireland green
distilled from wheat and rye!
Do away with your pills, it'll cure all ills,
Be you pagan, Christian or Jew--
Take aff your coat and grease your throat
with the rare old mountain dew!
Hi di diddle eidle dum diddly oodle didle dum
diddly doo dum diddly ai-aye
Hi di diddle eidle dum diddly oodle idle dum
diddly doo dum diddly ai day!
Hi di diddle eidle dum diddly oodle didle dum
diddly doo dum diddly ai-aye
Hi di diddle eidle dum diddly oodle idle dum
diddly doo dum diddly ai day!
diddly doo dum diddly ai day!
where have I heard this before.....
I like it.....
"Tightly controlled" = taxable.
the fish in that pond are gonna be hammered
Lucky fish; eh fellah? God damn the exise man. We 'real' Cornish so love them, the Crown, and White-hall.
Fry them and add some chips, that's glory.
all that was at that point was corn water
As he’s ripping off licenses, hygiene & quality, what’s most important is taxes.
Many people think it’s illegal to distill in the US, it’s the selling that’s illegal. Uncle Sam not getting his cut.
Hygiene ?, alcohol kills nearly every virus and bacteria on contact ,tax that's what they wanted, this has been feeding Irish families for generations
@@MrCOUNTYCORK It's very easy to accidentally make methanol when attempting to distil ethanol, which is very harmful to humans. It's less hygiene and more safety for human consumption.
@@greatestoldone7658 very true but these old guys were well versed in making poitin ,the methoanol was thrown away in the process at the end of the run ,the problem was with someone who didn't know what they were doing trying to make it
I worked at a wee place by Knockeens, outside of Tormore in the early 80's. Cornish mining was scat, fishing and farming scat too. I was courting Hughie Dalys' eldest maid at constantine, Kernow at that time.The dry stone walls there held 'many a nice thing'. Mr Francie Helen at Drinane was a lovely man, and his son Finbarr. Made me welcome from Kernow. God bless Ireland and the Tri-colour. Miss Daly and I are still very fond friends.
lovely story
The chief just lays out the recipe for all the young people
My father rest his soul, gave me a hot drink of Ribena with a drop of quality poitìn in when I was bad in bed with the flu as a child. I'll never forget the distinctive taste and smell of it.
I'm glad it was legalised eventually. Like the fella said it's an art form when done well. Thanks for uploading.
And I’d say it cured you too !!!!
At least it has quality assurance
Had the boys in blue have nothing better to do,but they wouldn’t shy away from drinking a bottle behind the scenes
The Priest proudly wearing his Pioneer pin.
My grandad used to brew the stuff and sell it in holy water bottles!!!! It was also forbidden to bring the poitín into the house because it was considered a sin so it would always be left in the bushes or somewhere else outside
Seriously stylish lad for 77.
😂 sort of an Austin Powers buzz about him
I assume he's gay
@@DrJones20 Safe to assume you have very little style at all.
@@walkingwithtamson I have plenty of style. I didn't mean it as an insult
my gran came from done gal when she went back there on holiday she used to bring 2 bottles back this was around 1980 on one occasion a bottle broke in transit wow the strong aroma of the potato I can still smell it to this day r.i. p. gran
Those gardai weren't wearing high viz jackets. The must be going undercover. Deep deep undercover, Axle Foley style.
they were lucky to have wellies, no life jackets that time either
Going deep cover on some incognito shit
Those were Gardai? I could barely see they were men in that camouflage!
No hi vis back then. Didn't have the chemicals developed to do it on a large scale.
Ireland you must wear a lifejacket up to a certain size of vessel
A taoscán of poitín made a Christmas cake very special.
It’s many a little measure of it that my late uncle squirted from his mouth into a coursing grey hound’s mouth just before the slip at a coursing meeting. He would also rub some into the shoulder and thigh muscles minutes earlier.
Thanks Noel. I have some Macedonian moonshine in my fridge and a sore knee. Might try a bit.
That's still done today Noel at greyhound tracks. Every race 2 dogs are drug tested, but they don't touch the big trainers dogs, as usually they have the 1st class dogs and bring too much trade to the track. As per usual it's the common man that pays the price.
@@ShoJ369 Shur its legal now so its grand
I come from a long line of Poitín and Moonshine makers from both sided of the pond. They see themselves as custodians of a deep history and tradition and the fact that its illegal is incidental and ridiculous. Its legal to possess sugar, water, barley, yeast, and copper and you pay taxes on them but its illegal to combine them. People would rather drink the illegal stuff.
I wouldn't touch illegal alcoholic beverages with a stick, there's no guarantee about what you drink and how it's made.
Haha oh my late father in law from Dungarvan and his friend from co kerry gave me my 1st drink of this back in 1988. Memories.. Thanks for the great videos triggering treasured memories
I once died and me mate gave me a sip of his Poitin and I was right up on me feet it was a miracle!
Is your name Tim Finnegan?
Remember American viewers, he's talking BRITISH gallons which are like 25% bigger than US gallons.
And no longer used in Ireland
As a a Scot who has recently moved to Connemara I find this film fascinating. The old fella with the hat is hard to follow, but is pure gold nonetheless. I must say I’d not be averse to a drop or two of the good stuff. Great video, from a great channel.
Nothing better than Poitin mixed with olive oil and use as a rub for muscle ache.
Ever tried CBD? the neural connections speak volumes. Your genetic makeup was literally evolved in symbiosis with it...
🤣 I remember 👍
what a waste.. you need to use the pure drop for the muscle ache,,
don,t tell me i,m still on that feckin island..
@@plumpooh627 the olive oil is only the vehicle for delivery, you can always deliver it orally. 😜
Seems like the police knew who was making the good stuff and who was making the bad stuff. Police should be more like that now a days. Tap on the wrist or a blind eye to those who are harmless and go after those causing harm with the full fury of the law.
Yes...
Agree
Extreme low corporation tax while common folk is screwed with taxes and more taxes...
Wonder who's doing harm
Hitched from Galway Town in the 60s - but an accident and a Garda was injured - the driver of the car was a witness and was concerned because he was a Customs Officer with a rake of Poiteen in his boot. He was concerned because he thought the Gardai would drink it!
My grandfather used to have a still, and he was well known...a guard used to tell my mother, when the raid was coming, so he was tipped off in advance...LOL" Tough times, you made a few bob where and how you could...!
The good ol' days. Before we had money, root of all evil.
brruh it was 1977...
@@Kanoshe There are more people younger than 1977 in Ireland than there are older these days. The "good" is up to debate, but it really is the ol' days
It’s not money that’s the root of all evil,
It’s “for the love of money is the root of all evil”
Certainly it should have been legalised YEARS AGO!!.
They’ve far bigger problems now with drugs !!! Bet Guards wish poitin was all they had 2 worry about !! Edit : Yes I do knw Alcohol is a drug also , but I hope the more enlightened minds out there can figure out what I mean ! Seems I’ve confused someone ...
@Marc Carran You knw what I mean , !
@Marc Carran I did NOT say alcohol was not a drug & you knw EXACTLY what I mean & if you don’t, then I’m not spelling it out for you ! You’re very naive if you don’t knw what I’m tlkn about & my comment was n reference to the video I’ve just watched & a far more innocent time ... Now if you’re still baffled, I can’t help you any further. Hava nice wkend ...
@Robert Mugabe Thank you Robert , So glad you’re intelligent enough to understand what I meant ... 👍👍
Painful to watch them pouring it away.
Any job that would lead to financial security must be illegal.
Brings back a fond memory of going to a farm in the Macroom area after mass on a Sunday in the early seventies to buy poitin,we pulled into the farmyard opened the boot of the Ford Corsair and they put the box of bottles in and we drove back to the city no chance of getting caught with the family in our Sunday best.Great Channel.
Irish version of a Meth Lab!😂
Many a bottle I got in Connemara
It’s great for a bad back. A bottle cost ya €15 today
I dranK poitin once about 23 years ago.....
....I'm still drunk.
Pot and poitin should both be legal, and the profits sent directly to disability services and mental health services.....
That priest was ahead of hes time
Contrary to the media BS and people’s very selective memories, the average parish priest in Ireland or Poland or anywhere else was always a more moderate and reasonable person than the local cop or government administrator. The clergy were very often called in to moderate in situations where the law was attempting to prosecute poor people for minor infractions.
Control? Like taxation? Do you think that might be the reason they do it?
That thought doesn’t cross his mind, what’s the point of legalising it, it would just be another distillery.
Before the crowbar was invented .Crows had to drink at home
I'd like to make it LEGAL , AND I'm teetotal , great channel , Thanks
@Marc Carran when the United States had an outright ban on alcohol in the 20s I though my Canadian Province went about it in a more sensible way. I think they banned the sale of it in the province but not the production, importation or exportation of it and you could get a doctor's note that would allow to purchase and consume it for medical purposes of course (with many doctors charging a small fee for their signature, no exam necessary).
What is this word, 'Legal', of which you refer? Sounds boring.
Leave er alone.
My brother started making it a few months ago, he sells it to a guy that owns an illegal pub. And guess what the guards do be in that pub. Stuff would blow your socks off so he waters it down to 50%.
How can a pub be illegal, lol
@@liammeech3702 seriously? Very innocent life ya lead man
Shebeen
They want the tax revenue, that's the crime in their mind, that they're not getting their cut.
Thanks for upload
Free the craft
You can buy it legally now, it's expensive though.
It was expensive back then me boy
@@radcow bet it wasn't £50 a bottle though 🙃
@@MyFoxworld
Use to bring it back from Ireland in a 7up bottle
@@paulie-Gualtieri. So did I only a couple of years ago. It was around €15 a bottle the last time I got it. I bought a bottle from some Irish distillery last year and it was around £50 or something when including postage. The bottle looks great in my pub shed tho 👍
They sell poitin online but it looks shite... too week by the degrees as listen there...
Christianity brought spirit alcohol to Ireland, Uisce Beatha is the Irish for Aqua Vitae, which is Latin for "Water of Life"
Christianity has done so much damage to Ireland and the world.
@@folksurvival Wow such a hot take! Never heard anything like that before, ever! Thanks smooth brain
@@herculesv1.247 I was just stating a fact, that's all, no need to get triggered and start sperging out and trying to spew insults over a simple comment.
@@folksurvival Its impossible comment and include a reference to theology in it in anyway without some troll jumping in with a 'religion bad' comment. It's so unoriginal, it just sounds dumb tbh
@@herculesv1.247 I'm not a "troll", I never said "religion bad" and I wasn't making any claim to originality. I just made a factual comment that was relevant to yours.
There use to be a lad at the cross-country country running club who use to rub good amount of it into his legs to warm himself up before a race. He overdid it one day though as he ran into a tree and broke his jaw. He was all over the shop.
Haha
🤣
😂😂😂
Had a drop myself way back when 🥴
Make the poitin legal, but ban that dirty dirty weed.
My Uncle still distils the stuff, fecking rocket fuel but bloody great!
Is it quality stuff
Thanks very much for this.
Garda wellies 😂
How could any good Irishman go and destroy another mans Still. Shame on them, Going to hell for it. Ha!
Aarragh wisht. A good shwig o' the moonshine will do yee no harum❤
Has to be the best priest I ever heard speak
They legalised police ! , to be sure you know you haven't the D T s , when you see three big animals in your pad bashing you and your gear about ,
what are you talking about you fucking weirdo
Thats no way to speak to a man. You sound ill mannered Craig Mason.
@@charliemckean300 cheers Charlie , it's nice to be nice , to be sure it's fair assumption that Craig is or from those who aspire to be Freemasons ,
@@craigmason9893 you take everything literally don't you.
Not only that but pouring mash all over the floor. Sure that will smell bad for the next month.
It was claimed by many people from near and far that my father and his brothers were the very finest Poitin makers in West Connemara, after brewing out in the mountains they would bottle up and go cross mountains and bog lands in the dark evening and at night to deliver to this special brew to peoples homes they even crossing down into Co mayo to earn a few shillings, My father could tell a good or bad poitin by its looks also its smell yet he drank very little of it.
Should flatulence be legalised as a natural resource ?
Absolutely!
They broke his ceiling. .
Seo Leitir Mealláin ní Lettermullan!!
My family use to return back to England when I was a lad with Corona Lemonade bottles with Poitin inside. I drank it once at 14, never to want it again :-)
Bluegrass in Ireland?
Bluegrass origins are Ireland and Scotland.
American bluegrass is a descendent of traditional Irish music
@@adammacgreagoir4924 yes but it has blues as well no?
It pretty much started here and england. People from here settled in appalachia and it morphed into bluegrass as we know it.
There must have been a stinking fish or two in the area.
sweet poitin from ireland green
A lake? We used to dream of living in a lake! 8:57
An old man I knew used to make it. he always drank it with tomato ketchup.. one evening the rooks that we're nesting in the tree's at the bottom of his garden were keeping him awake he put sliced pan and a bottle of poitin in a bucket mixed it up and threw it on the lawn they were killing each other fighting after they had it eaten and couldn't fly for ages hahaha they were piste 😂😋
What's sliced pan?
@@bushratbeachbum
A loaf of sliced white bread.
Distilling grapes is not legal in Ireland??? Ireland should be liberated!
It’s just a drink. Nothing special. I could never understand what the fuss is all about?🤷♂️
pure lunatic soup, aviation fuel.
It was all just down to tax revenue, and still is
0:01 Garda Sea-ochana there
Good thing Poitín is legal now
Yes!!! Don't need to watch it. But will obviously 😂
An acquired taste and bloody risky if it's not well regulated.
The Connemara hillbillys are coming😅😅
If its called Moonshine I can be legalized .
I don't understand why Poitin is still illegal? Why is that illegal but things like vodka and whiskey aren't? Is Poitin just the Irish word for moonshine, meaning it's basically any home made alcoholic drinks?
@Marc Carran That's just what I read on Wikipedia. Why is it illegal in Northern Ireland though?
@@ReddoFreddo who knows? Apparently there is still prohibition in parts of Canada too Northwest Territories native communities. Irish get a bad reputation for drinking too though I had an Irish boss for 10 years and she never touched the stuff so ...
@@ReddoFreddo stop trying to rationalize irrational laws
@@AnnaLVajda I'm just wondering what part of it is illegal. Is it illegal to make any kind of alcoholic beverage at home without a license? That makes absolute sense. But this video makes it seem like a specific kind of drink is illegal, not alcohol in general. It's like making vodka or whiskey illegal, but not rum or brandy, that doesn't make sense to me.
It's illegal because the gov't can't tax it. They want to enforce their monopoly and they don't like competition.
Yes make it legal send me some.
Why not
Some of these Irish Accents are mental! [ 6:41 ]
Gaeltacht.
@doubleheadergr That works very well.
Brilliant. Love his cheeky grin at the end. His mate thought he'd been caught by the Gards
Imagine putting that manpower into chasing some fellas making a drink.
I headed Upstate New York and it was good thing almost like a hallucinogenic beer and it was Glory with the Grateful Dead from course
What???
vote yes
Medicine
‘Depressed areas’ 🤔
Gr8 video... Only the young guy near end this video seems to be fake. The guy with glasses. Just my taught on it.
Car chase music, i love it!
FREE THE POITÍN!
now, i know pointin' is widely held by some to be rude. but i don't think we should made ILLEGAL!
sorry, i thought it said: should POINTIN' be legalised?
austin powers Irish relative at 3.00
This is not an instruction video 😉
Yes it should,after all was the origional whiskey "uisce Beata"..it's reputed to make lifetime drinkers faces blue,lol
Why is it illegal? 😅
Its possible to get a licence to make it
many a sick sheep or a cow got a dose of it
Moonshine?
Yes it fuckin should!!...
Looks like monty python at the start
Watched it again. The guy in last 1mins of video Is pure set up. Shame on ye.... cos other than that it's a gr8 video👍
Why are they playing like hillbilly like folk music for Ireland unless that's Irish I'm sure it has some roots in Irish immigrants but from Ireland I don't know
Yes. Irish music was influential in the synthesis of music that became bluegrass. To complicate matters, the American folk music has also become popular in Ireland, so the influence runs two ways by now.
May get dts hallucinate see little animals hello bells give me some of that stuff
The Connemara poitin still shown at 5:15 is a primitive affair, to be sure. I am running a licensed still over here in California, all made of copper as a proper still should be. For the comments to say this Connemara still is no different than stills the world over shows he has a lot to learn about distillation. Poor lad, if he thinks this is how it is everywhere he's in for a shock.
The footage is over 40 years old ya dry shite.
another dumbass yank
@@juliuscaesar8513 haha the Dry Shite!