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the kind of pre perish needs. if he didn't exist, he'd have to be invented. he's a man of faith and a nice change for the church. it's been, i'm a church rebel. the self proclaimed rebel has landed in edinburgh. his mission is unconventional. he's leading a group of whiskey enthusiasts through scotland. whiskey, he says, is holy, water, spirituality and spirit in one father, volk gung, horta, has been organizing whiskey pilgrimages in his free time for years,

and they're almost always full. this is his 1st trip since corona bus driver, david williams is a familiar figure on the tours id. hello. hello. can you hear me? great. we're ready to go. v as in eyes or stop by. it's welcome to the promised land of scotland group one month. david williams drives whiskey tours regularly, but both gung halter taught him that they can also be seen as christian pilgrimages . didn't know who i was get and i looked at itinerary and i saw the name and when i saw who fools gang come off the plane and what was called a dog color on this 1st, like i say, to missile king only going to be drinking whiskey and he said will in all the angels drink hair. so i was quite a good answer the really help any answer back from then. you know, so yeah, yeah, but it is pretty cool guy. and i am indeed, spiritually,

kate, we don't want to neglect the spirituality in the other sense. so let's start with some pres there. yes. under beginning the praise at the beginning of a journey credit, i guess i'll hand out the words of a him now kind of them get in and make our d david happy again by filling his bus with us singing mckinley us in the, in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit. singer little old book. oh, in. oh, i, i oh, i. before corona struck, scotlands rugged beauty attracted $15000000.00 tourists

a year. ah, whiskey distilleries are a vital component of scotlands economy and many welcome visitors with tours and of course, whisky tastings. ah, john hutton shows the group around glen going does oliver stick sits on my most important aspect? is mindfulness and in iowa we don't just go down the alcohol and we appreciated

with naval last sensors here. this isn't a wild engine involved. that is as a kind, it's an exercise in wind fullness and, and, and exercising a moderation height, length of life. oh. and you bunk domestic father who does group bring scientific precision to the tasting the room looks more like a laboratory than a pub. this one report. yeah, yeah. go on the left to leave the number one to 5. and in front of that you, she has like a taste tubes should've asked you for each one of they want to fight with 3. and then you've got the glass just in front of our number. one defines both gung ho to also see something divine in whiskey. it also, you know, if you, me a look at the jaws of a taste troops. yeah, i think you've missed them when you actually, you should say grace at such a richly prepared table. but this is already distilled into it. no one is drinking just to drink. she showed a short, just careful, sipping and tasting

a refill hawk said, foolish one, you know, shows her refill the bit. a wine yet lightly caraway yet late. i was with up. some don't taste the whiskey at all. lay just sniffed up. it isn't up. it's called nosing that monday when you look through this glass, you look straight into the heavens. huh. it still was causing historically, whiskey has an ecclesiastical context thinking. it's probably the only product that was invented behind monastery roles. i'm on a foot board and we have a product in front of us that is really ecclesiastical us. vic religious in origin kick, making them use wash boxes to can more from both gun golda is considered a whisky con, a source with the link to spirituality is his trademark. but whiskey makers don't entirely understand. well, you know not to my i'm not sure what for vo, you with

a or too much of the history of the monks part of it. yeah, yeah. for me, what time she has late scotch whiskey, any one who lakes? whiskey, scotch is the best whisky anywhere on the water with both kung walter has a special fondness for the british isles. he escaped there in his thoughts when he was in a bad place in 2004. he was then vice rector of a seminary involved in the formation of new priests. he had disagreements with his bishop, after an argument halter had a dizzy spell. he claims the bishop had him lie down on a couch and drunk him. then hold to says the bishop molested him. ah, i see, and when i got home that evening, i drank a glass of wine to overcome my disgust and shame glass buying a taunton. i didn't know what the bishop gave me a nice fussed official from. yeah,

it was a psycho tropic drug and alcohol was a very bad combination with an am sick, a fall from our corners and i think but 50 d. i don't remember what happened after that, and in fin buddhists, i thought later that night and i fell in an old, jumped from the balcony of my apartment. invite that unfair love. these are not, i don't know, i couldn't my novel. i just don't remember if i and dish pullman bustle in much faces, nifty shop, a kind of a non voter didn't tell anybody about the incident man. he accuses of molesting him was his superior in the church. hierarchy, volta suffered for 4 years, submitting to absurd tests and punishments. he says, finally, he was reassigned to the diocese law. i taught tool, i can honestly say i was torture fear intensely for horrible years that have lifted a mock on me to this day. having a deep cigar, take tom, but it also showed me the absurdities and brutality. the church is capable of cognitive and kill her face. as more and more victims of sexual abuse raised their

voices, a hotel brought his case to the attention of the cardinal. but nobody in the church believed his story. he was told the accusations were baseless and that he should keep quiet. thus most to him. if i have since learned that there's a culture of silence in the church, i know could poor defiance harish things that should be discussed because that's the only way they can be clarified and dealt with properly. a swept under the carpet fountain glided then couldn't. thus montage, the church tries to keep them secret and uncovered among hi, mr. das mont. as for pushing master hotel refuses to remain silent any longer. he wrote a book about his experience. the bishop, he accused of molesting him, has sued water for defamation, and last 2 court cases. back on tour, the conditions are quite luxurious for a pilgrimage. the

pilgrims stay at hotels, not monastery guessed houses. and there is no strenuous walking bus driver, david williams of seas to that in lieu . today they're headed to lindisfarne, also called holy island, a popular destination for day trippers. it can only be reached at low tide. the island lies off the northumberland coast and was an important centre of celtic christianity starting in the 6th century. but it's not just the picturesque ruins of the medieval priory that draw father water and his pilgrims. fucked is here. uh, we know via was screwed here because in the ruins of the mona century behind us.

and you can still see what's left of the brewer ring bow. hollister's in the mash match where the match was prepared in the initial stage of the beer brewing process . but it's still intact the year in steam con. perhaps the monks also distilled their beer, which was common in many monasteries to obtain high proof alcohol and thing article it was used in monastic infirmary to produce medicinal tinctures from idiots. ignition can tool incapacitate, although it survived the vikings, it couldn't withstand the protestant reformation. in the 16th century escaped catholicism was outlawed as there were no monks, so priests and catholics went aloud to pack state in england and also a neighboring scotland for several centuries. ice topher, borton, but the reformation didn't make whisky distilling disappear once the preserve of irish and scottish monasteries, whiskey survived the reformation, outside monastery,

walls. contemporary distillers are happy to share their knowledge. although a risk of explosion means we can't film at many distilleries, we are welcomed at borders distillery and are given a little safety briefing as we enter on top of that, there can be some sirens. you may see people running around if i've seen com, it's a normal working. if you see me running, you might want to keep up with the group listens patiently to the distillery worker . check out. it's the 3rd distillery on this pilgrimage, and they're familiar with most of the facts, all ready to start to all, all for a good scotch whiskey. didn't eat just 3 ingredients, barley, yeast, and war. but it's like a ritual, or

a progression star all is take are barley and put it away in this 20 percent hoss. they still listened closely to the story of how barley has transformed into whisk it out in the large mash vats. the crushed grain is mixed with hot water. the starch and the barley turns into sugar. a strainer sits at the bottom of the vat and collects the sugar solution. the grain residue remains, yeast is then added, which gets to work, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. if you cross that, you're gonna get punched by smell further that it should be nice. so feel free to come up. one by one. have a nice little cheque of it. well, i saw the when the east culture dies, something like beer emerges, variable punch up, there is a pick up. we prefer something

a bit stronger around here. so we're going to take this 3rd to the still house and produce a spirit. copper stills are used for distillation, the temperature in these stills as close to 90 degrees celsius, just below boiling point. i and hope the a lot of others prefer any high, chris's this action to those around one per cent full. but one crucial step is still missing to turn this clear mold spirit into whiskey. in the holy root distillery we see oak barrels. the beverage may only be called whiskey if it has been aged in oak for at least 3 years. the barrels give whisky its color and much of its flavor. it's the same ritual at the end of each distillery to her, a whisky tasting. but instead of whiskey, holly rude offers the pilgrims knew,

make whiskey that's not quite mature yet. because holly rude has only been producing since 2019 ah, bus driver, david understandably, isn't partaking. although he drives lots of tourists. he's especially fond of the whisky pilgrims, for very civilized group. yeah. yeah. they're very easy to get along with very friendly. they don't seem to get very drunk, they seem to be interested in how the whiskey is me and weird. it's common songs, stuff like that. so it's not as if they just knocking them back. so as saying, so yeah, yeah, i mean this that there's no chance obama on the boss, which i'm quite happy about, you know? hm. but yeah, yeah, a lovely group. that's also why it's not difficult to start early every day. voskus volta has planned the tour in detail to day. they're focusing on the famous scottish novelist,

sir walter scott it's an good. 7 ah, wouldn't have often edit it already to thought. oh, besides classic novels like rob roy scott also wrote some famous poems including the lady of the lake. the scots have named one of the finest views in the scottish borders after him. scott's view, sir walter scott is said to have loved standing here gazing at the 3 peaks of the island hills and the meandering river tweed below. me to fat. riverbend is really beautiful. oh, oh. next stop is abbotsford house, sir walter scott's home. the tour guide priest has something special in store who wants to say one of the crazed petition bit several of yeah. yeah.

life i only have 2 more blocks done and i'm going to enroll him so you can start coming inside there. celebrating mass in sir walter scott's own chapel. the religious aspects of this trip are vital to both gung volta oh hein, hot gutting. i left the church, but he booked the pilgrimage. anyway, he wanted to give religion another shot, a whisky is just an added bonus. then, an either spoke pisec. there's an old saying, ye, that whiskey is liquid, sunshine, them on. and if you tasted whiskey consciously, koster can tell that god wants human life to be good from deem the scot this good mit, on se mentioned mind,

thus how he wants to enrich our lives and give us joy to shank most. and lizzie trip continues to show us that whiskey tails even better and, and when you enjoy it together, soft denise. but schmidt and not mazel, called cindy. it's very interesting what we're doing here. but on the one hand, it's about whiskey, which is okay. but you can do that any time. i enjoy my food, but it's also interesting to know what i am eating, drinking consciously, living consciously, living consciously in the present. it's a very interesting idea, one and the only noise. all those gang horta succeeds in bringing people back to the church, like people like christine my mom, she left more than 30 years ago, but still feels a strong connection to the catholic faith among the life skipped. a lawyer enlightened ideologues into my fundamental s. m. a and fanatics them in so they may see the light of reason get caught tones of ha

ah, it's been cartoonish at so i was raised catholic and still feel a connection to catholicism. but a lot of what they teach us to narrow for me is i'm no longer a member to swing. benito does occasion until that wolfgang is defer hangs. oh oh oh oh oh, most gun or does approach is successful. yeah, is mine. oh, i mit stare, spit he 20. i started developing his spirituality whiskey asleep when i couldn't sleep one night on minor island. i had the idea of using my own passion for scotland, scottish culture and scottish whiskey of that to confront people with questions of veda, mit loudon, stamen in belonged to pal and it was successful of anita from sonya it off. i'm

a common mention. people came to my events, i, who wouldn't otherwise think of setting a foot in a church, with a shrill and a kick. his edson villain valve gung, horta has found his own path and the catholic church and sets his own priorities. he's openly gay and gives his priestly blessing to queer couples. he also supports ordaining women. he's been a vocal critic of sexual abuse and the catholic church. but not everybody approves addresses i now found dish him up, he dug mocked harbor dust. mom, they view me as disloyal. i know because i focused on issues that present the church thing in a bad light saw coupling her d kind go to swift, off the caregiver. i often when some under an even i'm also perceived as the troublemaker among the, as someone who never gives up as him. and as someone who's fixated on, what's important to me in him of either thus unshed placed was in be stickies, was i was calling, is i mr. salvage gang in body?

something that the church itself doesn't represent currently. it tries to keep us in a place where we don't want to be out because of him. i'm not so concerned about leaving the church law hit decay reached if in the us the growth art, he's the best priest we could half. now, as the catholic church goes through these trying times to which must have been cut a smidge for senior involved caucus i what fascinates me about both counties, his unconventional manner kind am a conflict. he doesn't to avoid controversial issues or. and he struck me as a man of the church some years ago, and for one of our to cut off and out fine pion. in addition to focusing on important issues, the pilgrims also have a lot of fun on this tour. it scotland is a land of castles, old fortresses and beautiful scenery. 2 negotiating

a traditional maze is on every tourists bucket list with after the relaxing tempo of the countryside. something quite different. awaits the pilgrims. edinburgh, ah, ah, ah

. the pilgrims are hoping to surprise the priest before the tour is over. he voluntarily organizes the trips and the pilgrims don't pay for his travel. so they want to show their appreciation for his work. he knows what's coming and says he feels awkward when complimented or praised. he's visibly embarrassed. says play. yeah is well good of all. it was wonderful for new guys, i really lovely tramping, highly close. and that's why we spared neither expense nor effort to engage some

very famous singers to perform for you. i even brought along a choir coordinate to get balked. i have proudly bruce, send this famous born in thing us. i don't good i oh, good lies. do by morgan is didn't own cause i did. oh oh, in his home parish, both gong volta is only an assistant, the pastor's deputy. it's a humble position for a man who holds to doctorates. oh, but he doesn't seem to mind as long as he can continue working as a priest. oh, thank you very much. god bless you, let me applaud you 1st. i

lovely a thank you to share with god bless. i can promise you. one thing already made this and i'll stop planning next year's trip the day after tomorrow. at the latest i i it's been not into kill. i am still in the church. i even feel hotly because i want to make sure my opinions are being heard occasionally. shavonne and if i were to lean, i'd be helping the very people who were the reason for my leaving was the and i'm not going to do them that favor pushing lulu ah vote. god holds a loves the catholic church in spite of everything. he loves catholic spirituality,

the churches, traditions, and rituals. ah, and who knows? perhaps the self proclaimed a church rebel is creating a new tradition with his whisky pilgrimages. ah ah ah, with

ah ah, a joy ride through fascinating worlds into uncharted depths, our guides know their way around with a strictly scientific trip to some pretty wacky places.

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