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[gness]

When you run out of Jameson and fancy a toddy the above is quite acceptable....once you get the top off......

But isn't it strong!

I googled it's history....bit like the stuff we made in the hills.....perhaps that's why I like it.....♣

[seekeerz]

Gneiss what are you doing drinking stuff like that at this hour of the morning ? Well at least you're not talking to yourself ! Xx

[SirOracle]

Its rum gness ,I think not in the same league as even Irish WhiskEy.

[cupid04]

Is she wittering again...

[seekeerz]

Think she's got her booze mixed up .... Doubt they made rum in the Irish hills lol xx

[ChillDoubt]

When you say 'stuff we made in the hills', I take it you mean Poitin?

[BlackadderV]

I thought it might be a posh name for poteen, but clearly not.

[anneasquith]

'' stuff we made in he hills'' peat ?

[gness]

Well.. I was just saying to myself...this is okay....but no.....not a patch on Jameson....the bottle is foreign so I'd no idea what it was while I was attacking it with the bottle opener...it's a screw top..but that was hidden under white tape...

No rum in the hills....just poteen.....we sort of stopped making it when my cousins started joining the Guards.....but then if there was a wedding, wake or some big do the Guards would raid stills.....just for the toast you understand....the rest was poured away..... ;-)

[gness]

The posh name for poteen is Holy Water....we would buy plastic bottles shaped like the virgin Mary with a screw top crown and full of Holy Water....which we emptied and replaced with poteen to bring to England....♣

[gness]

Anne....peat was at the foot of the hills....we gathered some *** on the way up for the still...and some on the way down for the fire in the house....x

[gness]

I am talking to myself, Seek..... :-(

[SirOracle]

Gness ....I always thought that poteen would break out of plastic bottles. :-)

[gness]

I don't suppose it was in them long enough, SirO....The only time we had broken ones was when my mother put it in glass bottles and customs caught her.....well she had filled my teenage brother's case with them....he was more than surprised when he saw what customs found....☺

Anyway, they lined them up on the table and started to lecture the mother so she swiped them to the floor with her arm and asked....What bottles of poteen.......'twas easier to just let her go.....♣

[Slapshot]

I've never taken to Irish Whiskey, dont know why.

Now I've a mate who makes something he calls WD45.....it certainly penetrates and lubricates!! We had a still in school under the guise of fermentation experiments.....

[gness]

Morning, Slappy....I think I took to Irish whiskey when I was teething.....☺

[Slapshot]

Missed this G..... I did take to finest malt Scottish Whisky....... and have done my best to contribute to it's consumption!!

[lady-janine]

my grateful thanks to gness and slapshot for sharing their well-researched findings. such good guidance.

[carrust]

The Mrs brought me back a bottle of Isle of Arran 14yr old malt..it was demolished within a week

[SirOracle]

Carust.......didn't you like it then? A week to drink it !!

[carrust]

Lol @ sir o