Distilling Whiskey in Dublin City, Ireland 1977
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Whiskey making in the Powers Distillery in John’s Lane, Dublin prior to its relocation to Midleton in County Cork.
There was a time when Dublin city centre was a hub of thriving industries, in this case Powers Distillery, founded in 1791 by James Power, who already had a hostelry at this location,
Behind the church of Saint John and Saint Augustine in Thomas Street, and at the edge of Scandinavian and medieval Dublin...
Powers Distillery became part of the Irish Distillers group in 1966 [the other distilleries at that time being Cork Distilleries Company and John Jameson & Son, and in 1976 moved to new and more modern premises in Midleton, Cork. Before it closed its doors for the last time, ‘The Arts Programme’ visited the John’s Lane distillery, to record the workings of this old and curiously attractive plant.
The whiskey is distilled from beer, which distillers call ‘wash’, made from barley which is dried and ground on site by huge millstones made from slabs of granite. Pot stills might come to mind when people think about whiskey making, but the heart of the process is the mashing, when the barley, malt and water at a temperature of 150 degrees are mixed together in a mash tun,
The scale of the machinery, the sense of power, the humidity, and the curiously pleasant smell of warm crushed grain is not easily forgotten. The quality of the water used is important, and this is one of the major factors in locating a distillery.
In time, the rakes stop beating, what is left of the grains settles to the bottom, and the long process of draining the mash starts.
These mash tuns hold about 33,000 gallons each, and this liquor is the raw material for beer, known in the trade as wort. The spent grains are then manually shovelled out through small holes in the floor of the tun. Due to the heat and humidity, this is a task which cannot be done in a hurry,
Although the work is tough, it’s not dangerous, rather like taking strenuous exercise in a Turkish bath. But it does serve as a good reminder that working conditions in our industrial past were far from ideal, and often worse.
Following the distillery’s closure, many of its buildings were demolished, but those which did survive now form part of The National College of Art and Design.
This episode of ‘The Arts Programme’ was broadcast on 15 May 1977. The presenter is Andy O’Mahony.
Fascinating to see that the dress code for making whiskey and consuming whiskey is the same in Ireland.
It must've been a wild time back then
that's a good one xD. Those poor fellas... it looked about 130ºF in there and 100% humidity, Miners used to work naked for the same reason I have heard.
@@Burley_Bert they did, watch the chernobyl mini series if you can, entirely unrelated aside from a single scene but still worth the watch lol
🤣🤣🤣
Lol!
You hear,about the Irish lad that fell into the vat of whiskey recently..... he bravely fought off twelve of his rescuers 🤣
Ha Ha very good, Those bad 12 rescuers should leave the boy alone so he can enjoy drinking that whiskey and so he will recuse himself, just give him time
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I hear his widow was told the harrowing tale of how he drowned, after having gotten out 3 times for a pee, a cigarette and his lunch respectively
Its funny cuz it's true as shown by the Dublin Whiskey Fire of 1875 where 13 people died from not the fire but alcohol poisoning from drinking all the sweet juice running on the streets 😂
@@DaysOfDarknessUK it was a 12 step program lol
I came for the lads in their skivvies!!!
Saucy minx😂
Why were they doing it in their jocks
Why were they doing it in their jocks
@Kristina Mullen. You're very bold. I'm straight telling your mammy.😁😁
@@oscarosullivan4513 probably the heat and lack of washing machines at home.
Why ruin good clothes if you don't need to
Quick lads, put your underpants on, the camera crew are here.
How're we to wet the grains wit our pants on, sir?!
The grass on the roof is sprayed with the Whiskey so that, it's "half cut"when it grows!
Shhh. No one likes a grass
Nice. Very nice.
🤣🤣
Excellent, the jokes are getting better
Brilliant. 😀
My grandfather is the one with the tattoos on his forearm - died 7 years ago - drank a whiskey everyday untill he was 73. Hard man
Sorry but probably this is why he isn't lived 90 years, just like my alcoholic grandfather who also lived only 72.
@@ErikAdalbertvanNagel aye bruh life shall not be so negative. Some people aint even had a gpa be thankful u had one for a while
@@ErikAdalbertvanNagel and there are people who also never drink, exercise every single day and eat nothing processed, etc. and still manage to die in their 40s or 50s from heart attacks or cancer. Living to 90 wasn't even that common until relatively recently - there's not even a life expectancy in any country that's 90 yet.
Btw, one whiskey a day isn't necessarily a sign of alcoholism.
Handsome lad, do you have any photos of him you can share publicly?
mine made it to 92 whiskey n bacon
Mmmmmm, gotta love some ball sweat mixed in with the whiskey. That's what gives it its distinct flavour.
Exactly 💯
Beautifully paced and narrated.
Thought the same. I love how few edits there are. Very calming
Old school goodness
Courtesy of the great Andy O'Mahony, an Irish broadcast journalist who worked for RTÉ from 1961 to 2013. A class act.
Pathetic fake West Brit accent. The Irish aping their betters.
@@swinderbyIf you're Irish, try not to be so insecure. If you're not Irish, try not to be so stupid: the Irish don't have 'betters'.
"This Dante-esque vision is something of a shock!" Christ above that was comical
"Strenuous exercise in a Turkish bath".
Takes me back to my childhood because I live 10 min's walk from there it's all changed now. Guinness is close bye and when they are Roasting the barley the smell is beautiful some people don't like it but I love it.
That place is now NCAD on Thomas Street. A lot of the old machinery is still in the college
Or as the locals call it 'Nobody Can Actually Draw'
Is there still grass on the roof?
lets go fire it up. i got my scibbees on!
@@bagsogee Ouch!!
for those who may not know, malted barley whiskey is made when fertile barley (seeds) are kept moist over/inside a burlap cloth/bag and allowed to germinate just long enough to for a small tail of a root to form, then the germinated grain is carefully spread out on screens and allowed to completely dry out, some processes warm, bake or even smoke over smoldering peat as in the case of scotch whisky production, then the dried germinated grain is ground into meal sized particles, then added to the water along with sugar or molasses and active yeast for 7-14+ days fermentation after that comes distillation, and then finally aged and bottled up
That drinks been drank, the stories told, and the moment enjoyed!
Fascinating. Don’t count on any distiller giving you this kind of view of their operation nowadays.
I let people film my distiller all the time
@@johnwayne7673 I dont think an old oil drum full of squirrel urine counts as a distiller
@@DustyOldBones You're in Galway now, son!
They still do. Being a former chemical engineering student, we have toured a few of these during my schooling.
@@cgavin1 balybane galway lol
Where are my wellies and underpants ?.
I'm off to work .
When people didn't need the gym as the work was so physical.
Aye, they just developed long-term chronic ailments. Why go to the gym when you can go to the pharmacy instead?
I would like to see the rest of this documentary, if available.
There’s nothing better than stripping down and digging out the mash tun! It’s like a steam room that smells _amazing!_
Mm yeah strip down
No wonder Irish whiskey tastes so great, after all that hard work that lads put in it ! Cheers !
Because of all that musky sweat?
@@JackRipper8881 nailed it
Lasol is also good
I’m sure those lads in the skivvies doing the shoveling we’re getting half a buzz on inhaling that steam. Ran some poteen and had milk churn with 3 heating elements to bring to boil. The way we sealed the copper pipe out to cold still . Worm. water flour mix of dough. Got nice consistency and baked around the pipe opening and turned heat down. That initial steam was pure alcohol. Sweet smelling stuff . The good ole days .
Great that we can have a civil chat over whisky unlike some of the comments I see on videos . Ah go on take a poke at me now lol. Happy New Year to all and Slainte
That steam is only water vapor. Happens easily when you work in the brewery on winter.
Cheer’s
Poke. Just playing happy new year
@Yuck Foutube No, they are shoveling the mash. It's just grain and residual sugar and water. There is no alcohol involved in the process yet and this is just the waste product.
Yeast is introduced to the wort and they are essentially brewing beer after this... Only then alcohol is formed and the beer is distilled. I'm pretty sure ...
Our neighbours loved whiskey as they left dozens of old bottles laying in the bush , they couldn't drink at home because of the temperance movement ( wives were against drink) these bottles are the property of the irish whiskey distillery company printed on them , they were irish immigrants to Australia
You can always get around restrictions
@@WinkenBlinkenAndNod facts, mate
why would that whiskey be the property of the company that made it? if it was sold, not stolen, the company gave up ownership. the stuff should belong to either the family of the last owners, or the owner of the property it was found on, or the person who found it, or the government. the distillery makes no sense. I get that they would WANT some old bottles like that because it's cool and kinda good for marketing (besides being potentially worth a good amount of money), but there is no reason why the distillery should have a claim of ownership.
@@Ass_of_Amalek i think they meant the actual glass bottles, not the contents. Kinda like shopping carts or plastic bottles with a deposit on them, you pay the desposit and then you get it back when you return the bottle.
Macador Sigillite there were no bottle deposits back then, and a deposit wouldn't give the producer ownership of the bottle either.
i live on that street, so cool seeing it like that
Does the building still exist, would it be near wood quay
@@oscarosullivan4513 yes it does, it would be in the opposite direction from wood quay, but i suppose not that far
@@ohaodhe Thanks
1:05 Dirt is a Really Good insulator. It will stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter. I don't know when this building was made but pretty cool that they understood that.
And may go back to the First days of making beer where monks did it in Caves to get that same Temp consistency.
Dirt is not a particularly good insulator, but it's free and universally available, that's why in the olden times it was very popular. They didn't exactly have rock wool in preindustrial times.
@@aleksandersuur9475 If you have feet of dirt it is almost impenetrable. it takes months to freeze in sub 0 temps. Conversely, if you are in Siberia it never thaws more than 2 or 3 feet from 4 months of warm weather if you are in Siberia.
In the hottest desert in the World in California as long as you have 3 feet of base dirt on the sides of the house or over it, the 138 (56 c)degree heat wont get in, nor the super hot days for 3 months there.
yeah if you want 3 inch insulation fiberglass works better, but for extremely warm climates dirt is best, cheap and gives you 72 degrees year round (22 c).
Whiskey you're the devil O, You're leading me astray, Over hills and mountains, and to Amerikay. In my younger days I helped to brew some of the very finest purest, sweetest tasting Poitin, The bad police would not leave us alone, they chased us all over the hills, across valleys, down long narrow country roads and steep mountan roads but we always got away, we never spilled a drop of this precious liquid
Come day go day wishing me heart it was Sunday Drinking buttermilk all the week whiskey on a Sunday
Sweet Jeebus, those sweaty whiskey men🥵🥰
Those boys look like they were working in hell
Steady Sinead 😂
My uncle accidentally fell into a giant vat of whisky and drowned, what was most upsetting was the fact that he managed to climb out twice to go for a piss!
Was he the fella who they threw the lifebelt to 6 times and each time he threw it back ???
Just a bunch of lads working to provide us whiskey ✌🏼
Fascinating video! Amazing to see how old fashioned the process used to be. Couldn't be from 1977 though because Powers closed in '76. Possibly from the early '70s?
Pre 1975
Where are more videos like this?
Maybe the footage was published in 1977 but filmed a year or two earlier?
@@rabidmoonmonkey1090 Could be a possibility
@@samirahaslet8227 ua-cam.com/users/PeriscopeFilm
No one knows why there is grass on the roof.
"I just keep on throwing seeds up there until the landlord notices. It's been 20 years."
I like how this video ends with "they'll be fine"
Irish distillers have a botteling plant located at Fox and geese close to the start of the long mile road . Tankers of whiskey drive up from Middleton then article loads of bottles leave to be shipped off to the four corners of the world . Paddy is the nicest one of the lot in moderation of course if you can manage that some of us are better off leaving it be altogether me being one of them or us depends how you look it really .
For any foreigners wondering, Fox-And-Geese is a townland in County Dublin. I have no idea where it got such an odd name.
@@Dabhach1 What part
@@oscarosullivan4513 it’s around robinhood and ballymount and redcow area
The distillery town in county Cork is spelled Midleton.
Excellent video again my good man.
"Are those dudes making whiskey in their undies?" "Yep"
I've had the pleasure of hand shoveling spent mash into a ponndorf auger (AKA mechanized sarlacc pit) within a 50 BBL lauter tun when the rakes took a shite; it gave new meaning to the term "Xtreme brewing".
This channel is pure gold
6:45
Whiskey Distilling in Dublin City 1977 or the steel mill from the Simpsons
And to think Conor McGregor did this all himself in a few weeks .
You can tell by the taste of it
Brilliant 👏
Yeah well as you can see there was only 11 guys working on this Conor had the proper 12
I think I may have strolled around the grass rooftop, shown at 0:50, twenty years ago. I wonder if it's still there.
Brilliant video 👏
Such an amazing amount of work. Does anyone know of a more recent documentary about beer and spirits production from prehistory to the present? Would be a fascinating series for RTE or TG4.
No
@@ShredCo thanks for your service.
@@jaydaawg.8191 OK.
Tasting History with Max Miller has started to get into this a bit. Townsends also did some videos on early American brewing processes.
Thank me later ua-cam.com/video/glQjCKAI4gA/v-deo.html
This is where NCAD is now, right?
"The armpit sweat is what gives the aged flavour"
Tis a good job those mash stirring combs are not used these days, all the grease dripping from the gearing into the steaming mash broth, or perhaps it added to the taste 😎
I doubt they were greased with a molly based grease but maybe a food safe one. And if not, just some steel swarth in the mix.
Bronze bushings, no ball bearings, bushings require no grease in many cases as brass, bronze and others have better self lubricating properties than ss balls
They could sell the solids left from the wash to farmers. It is an ideal pig food. Cows might eat it as well, I'm not sure.
I used to work at a grain elevator and made custom feeds for dairy cows. One of the ingredients that could be selected is what we called, Distillers. It came from Canadian whiskey makers that was the mash, thoroughly dried of course. It would always cake up on the sides of the bin and I'd have to climb in and knock it down. Huge chunks would break loose and fall after strategically digging at certain points.
Had to be careful not to get buried but t did smell good though
In fact, it can be eaten by humans and can be made quite tasty. A small amount of alcohol is left behind, so children can get a little drunk if they eat a lot, but with a moderate intoxication it is not harmful. It is an ideal human feed.
a brief look at history ;-)
Speedos & wellies the morrow boys & act natural.
unreal share thanks.
Nice warm whiskey bath 🛀
I love the part about the roof pete air-conditioning. The simplest is the best. I had an idea about other houses that I think would have been a good idea. Too much chemical garbage to make it though for now. The homunculus that we are ya know. ☺️
I had a single malt once,, with the mild flavour of y fronts
Dublin is soon to become the biggest city in the whole of europe!,
.....cos its ^dublin^ every day!😁
Came for the old-school-cool, stayed for the Irish drinking jokes. :)
Man seeing that thumbnail I assumed this was a monthy python sketch.
The first thing I learned from this video is the importance of Columbidae in whiskey making.
Life hasn’t changed much in 50 years or so. Oh wait, yeh it really fucking has 🤯😂
The secret ingredient to their alcohol is some Mick's ball sweat
All those mad lads!
Sad but true when "modern" mass production methods were implemented in the 80's the whisky turned to piss.
Kind of cool that they had a living green roof long before they understood the technique.
before they understood it?
@@MicroTurboComplex Yeah its not like every roof in Ireland wasn't a green roof for 50, 000+ years or owt.
i tried making acohol once, bag of sugar in boiling water, cooled overnight in a bucket, threw in 2 packs of bread yeast. it reaked of dead bodies in my celllar for a week. then it became sweet again. got a tiny steel distiller and actually smells and tastes like cheap wodka. fascinating. now i keep experimenting and still have 14/20 vision.
Middleton for the worlds best whiskey . Irish whiskey was consumed by kings and world leaders pre 1900 s . As prohibition hit scotch and wine were consumed more . In recent years the swing back occurred and in America Jameson is now huge and the likes of conor McGregor cashed in on the ever growing market
The place is Midleton.
@@patrickmccutcheon9361 correct 1 D
Irish Whiskey has always been the worst in the world, Scottish whisky is the best in the world.
@@darthkek1953 have you ever done a blind tasting? There is a greater variety of a scotch whisky labels and types. Taste is individual. I like highland single malts but not island ones but that is just my taste. I also like the smoothness of Irish whiskeys that results from the third distillation.
I unfortunately drank a whole bottle of Jack Daniels not to long ago I consumed it in about 3hours just sipping it. I became very ill and I can’t drink any hard alcohol without vomiting anymore.
I had the same experience with Southern Comfort when I was 17. I still gag at the smell. I can still drink liquor, just not SoCo. That was 40 years ago.
@@tiki_trash glad im not alone
Same here haven't had it happen with different liqours and whiskey though but jack knocked me down and kept me down for well over a week I was rolling on my bed disgusted at any mention of food or alchol
Same happened to me but with a bag of Hunky Dorys
Strenuous exercise in a Turkish bath??? Man, this narrator gets around!
I neither want to be one of those shoveling the grain, nor do I want to be the one standing aside watching ;-)
still I had to take a peek
The shoveling men that was actually at crown Princes Poofster’s royal estate in Bangmebum Ireland
As a gay man I endorse this method of production 😂In seriousness, it looks like difficult grueling work, reminds me of stokers in boiler rooms, the types of job that are hard on the bones. I presume today the entire bloody process is automated.
Sees the thumbnail. 'Why are there naked men shovelling?'
Watches the video. 'OK. Thats why'
umm did I see a bird in the mash at 5:45? upper right side...
0:25 The chemistry of destiling good whiskey is far from fully understood🐦🐦🐦
I note that those taps open clockwise.
Yes, I noticed too. Can see no good reason except they were not mirrored when cast. Maybe cast on a Friday arvo, lol.
Those lads shovelling in their pants. These days health and safety would make them wear thick fire proof overalls and head gear they would collapse from the heat but on paper they would be safe.
Actually, these days they just get a machine to do it. Much safer and more efficient.
Why were they doing it in their jocks
@@oscarosullivan4513 The steaming pile of cooked grain around them should give you an idea..
@@MrIzo56 Thankfully done by machine
Wonder when they got rid of the grass roof?
It all died after the first batch.
I wonder how many bottles survive from this distillery in people's private collections to this day. I bet they are worth a mint and probably gained a few % over the years!
At 6:47 narrator compares it to "like taking strenuous exercise, in a Turkish bath". #UndieDudesShovelingSpentGrains #WhiskeyPorno : )
Wouldn't the steam comin off that spent mash those boyz are standing in still be giving off some alcohol vapors?
So when u drank whiskey up til the 80s u really were drinking the raw sweat and tears of the men who shovelled the grain mash.
I came here for the sweaty lads in their skivvies
Nice to know you're drinking all those bodily fluids!
The infrared attached to the camera that had motion stabilization indicates that this is recorded from a time traveler.
Old, heavy camera gear makes a great stabilizer. When using a lightweight camera that I can't mount into a rig, I will often strap ankle weights to my hands.
The camera keeps shaking.
This comment section. I didn't know there were so many jokes about Irishmen and alcoholism, I only know one:
How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb?
2, one sticks the bulb into the socket and the other one drinks until the room starts to spin.
They sure saved the most interesting part until the end.
How are the humongous cogs lubricated without contaminating the brew?
There are many ways to keep food from contamination, such as installing an oil ring or building an integral motor, but the more effective the more expensive the installation. That's why most factory equipment only passes pollution standards. The problem was that the standards were loose at the time. Still, factory food is cleaner than traditional manual methods.
Don't worry guys, the only reason they make booze out of wheat and barley is so they can save all the potato's for eating.
I like Jameson's , regards Richard London
Damn, I don't think I want to drink whiskey anymore lol...
Can anyone clarify if it's still tradition to work in your undies at an Irish Whiskey distillery this millennium?
Ladies circled around the top of the vat, cheering them on like at a chippendale show.
Incredible stuff! Do you have any more brewing or distilling clips?
We got the same pigeons in cape town.
A voiceover for colorized 1877 footage?
_1977_
Holy shit!
I love that whisky is beer first.
Just like a Saturday night!
Back than when humans were humans and not sheeps
7:02 Suuure, their lungs are certainly ok after all those years of shoveling this stuff 🤣
5:47 moth flapping around in the mash is nice
Is there still grass on the roof?
It all died after the first batch.
i love irish whiskey best
5am in Sydney - how dafuq did I come by this clip?, and WHY (dafuq) did I watch the whole thing? - Satan hisself is putting the youtube logarithms together now......
The lads must have been pissed daily 😂
Old Dublin my garden 😂 growing up across the Liffey from in the fruit and vegetables market I always drank around there bohan of Meath st the canal bar the clock 😂 nearly all gone now very few of the old pubs left or very few of us 😂 great days money but we always earned A few quid regardless of by hook or CROOK 😂😂😂
you know it's a hot and steamy job when the best thing to do is wear nothing while doing it LOL
It's just that the workers we work with every day are wearing panties so as not to offend each other. I don't want to see his son messing around in front of him.
Where's the rest of the video?