Talk:Poitín

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Contents 1 Sentence Restructuring 2 Suggestion 3 Requested move 4 'legal versions' of potín are of a greatly reduced volume? 5 Geographical Indicative Status

[edit] Sentence Restructuring

I think it would be better if it was mentioned when and why it was made illegal and then talk about how it has since been legalised.

"Some rural Irish people still pour it on wounds and sores for its disinfectant properties, and with as high an alcohol volume as it has, it certainly does." It certainly does what?

Disinfect wounds?

[edit] Suggestion

I'd like to see more in this article about what makes poteen separate from other whiskeys. I've read other places that poteen is often manufactured from potato, but I'd like to get some authoritative confirmation on this before making an edit.

Incorrect. Poitín is made the same way as whiskey. It is grain alcohol and is not produced from potatoes. My head is swimming with it right now. Jm butler 17:30, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Old topic, but to clarify, it entirely depends on the definition being used. I've found numerous reliable sources that say poteen is traditionally made from malted barley, later in history it was sometimes made from potatoes, and later it was potentially made from anything high in saccarides (sugars/starches). I believe it is a common misconception that poteen is, by definition, made from potatoes, and I'd love to find a source that confirms the existence of this misconception. -Verdatum (talk) 17:50, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

How can anyone say "Overnight a large proportion of the Irish population became "criminals" as has anyone who has distilled it privately since" A better suited sentene would be "when the distillation law was passed it became illegal for people to distill poitin" We dont even know how many people made poitin back then so how anybody can say a large proportion of the Irish population became "criminals" is beyond me.

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poit%C3%ADn"

Currently Poitín redirects to Poitin. However since the correct Irish spelling is with the fada, I think it should be the other way around. Even the first sentence of the article has it spelt as Poitín. Any opinions on it? Dave 16:19, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

• Oppose. While it's widely ignored, according to the English language alphabet article, diacritics are not used in English language terms, and IMHO an English language Wikipedia should have its articles at the English language titles. 24.18.215.132 03:24, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

• According to the English language alphabet article:

"Diacritic marks are not common in English, appearing mainly in foreign and loan-words such as résumé, naïve, and façade. Often such use of diacritics is optional but in some words such as "soupçon" the only spelling found in English dictionaries (the OED and others) uses the diacritic."

This doesn't say that diacritics aren't used in English, rather that "true English" words don't often have them but "loan words", as it calls them, would use them. With regard to the English version of Wikipedia using diacritics, I would give examples of déjà vu and résumé which both use diacritics in their titles. The word poitín is an Irish word, the correct spelling is with a fada and should be used as such, IMHO. Dave 10:58, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Moved. —Nightstallion (?) 13:13, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Cheers, Dave 15:20, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'legal versions' of potín are of a greatly reduced volume?

http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=1583

This looks to be quite strong, I don't think you can get much stronger. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.40.118.79 (talk) 13:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC).

95%... from the homebrewers in the mountains —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.140.49 (talk) 05:07, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Geographical Indicative Status

"In 2008, Irish Poteen was accorded G.I. (Geographical Indicative Status) by the EU Council and Parliament, under EU Regulation 208/2008." As far as I can tell, Regulation 208/2008 is this document here: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:063:0001:0002:EN:PDF which discusses import values for certain fruits and vegetables. The document makes no mention of poteen with any spelling, nor any other distilled spirit. Can anyone clear this up? -Verdatum (talk) 14:39, 12 March 2008 (UTC)