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this is definitely kind of priest parish needs. if he didn't exist, he'd have to be invented. he's a man of faith and the nice change for the church. it's been, i'm a church rebel. the self proclaimed ramble 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. the father of both gone hold has been organizing whiskey pilgrimages in his free time

for years. and they're almost always full. this is his 1st trip sense corona, bus driver. david williams is a familiar figure on the tourist. hello. hello. can you hear me? great. we're ready to go up. this is all stopped, so i just welcome to the promised land of scotland. david williams drives whiskey tours regularly, but it was gone, hold taught him that they can also be seen as christian pilgrimages. didn't know who i was get and i looked at identity and i saw the name and when i saw a proof of gang come off the plane, i noticed out adult color. and this 1st, like i said to him, is this ok, you know, the going to be drinking whiskey and he said, well, you know, the angels drink it so, so it was quite a good time to really have any answer but something, you know, so yeah, yeah,

but it is pretty cool guy. finance. tim, indeed, maybe 20 kids. we don't want to neglect the spirituality in the sense. so let's start with some, pres. yeah, yeah. i'm the beginning to present the beginning of the journey. it's read as i get style, hand out the words of a human now kind of thing. and then you make out d, david, happy again by filling his boss with things macpherson on the, in the, in the name of the father. and of this done by the end of the holy spirit. that me before corona struck, scotland rugged beauty attracted $15000000.00 tourists

a year. the whiskey distilleries are a vital component of scotlands economy and many welcome visitors with tours. and of course, with the taste things, the john hutton shows the group around glenn going the, this out of the 6 is my most important aspect is mindfulness. and, and of course we don't just go down the alcohol and we appreciated with

a little less census here. this isn't a wild engine involved. this is also kind, it's an exercise in mindfulness. so in the end and exercise a motorized tonight, when supplies and people domestic fatherhood as group bring scientific precision to the tasting room looks more like a laboratory than a pub. the as well, some ways to 8 the number one device and it has done all that. you see there's like a taste you should last. you saw each one of them. they went to bye with tonight. and the last is in front of a number where it defines both gone the whole to also see something defined in whiskey or signal. excuse me, a look at the job of a texture. yeah, i just missed the one that actually you should say grace at such a rich the prepare table, but this is already distilled into it. no one is drinking just to drink,

showing us just careful, shipping and tasting. refill hoax it. so this one you have some sort of refill this one. yeah. like a way get some don't taste the whiskey at all. they just snapped up. it's called nosing mother. when you look through this glass, you look straight into the haven't you storage because in historically, whiskey has increase the icicle context statement. and it's probably the only product that was invented behind monastery bubbles on my one foot board. and we have a product in front of us that is really ecclesiastical us, vic, religious and origin, kick, leasing with any use or sponsors to can more from both gone cold is considered a whiskey kind of source with the link to spirituality is his trademark. but whiskey makers don't entirely understand. well, you know, not too much. i'm not too much familiar with a, you know too much of

a history on the monks part of it. yeah. yeah. bought mean what time she has like scorch risky. anyone who likes westgate go into the base westgate annually on the world. both guns water has a special fondness for the british aisles. the escapes 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 the says, the bishop molested him the ass and when i got home that he knows that i drank a glass of wine and 2 of it come my disgust. and shame plus mine good told me i didn't know what the bishop gave me and these spots that visual for me. yeah. it

was a psycho tropic drug and alcohol was a very bad combination with unemployment final, from our coordinator. and i think by face the, the, i don't remember what happened off to that. and in st. louis, i thought later that night and i fell in an old jump from the balcony of my apartment, invited himself. these are not, i don't know if i put them or not, but i just don't remember fi and explosion, bustle. fremont. as far as, as nice to have a kind of a no vote. didn't tell anybody about the incident. the man he accuses of molesting him was his superior in the church hierarchy. both suffered for 4 years. submitting to absurd tests and punishments. he says finally, he was reassigned to the diocese. this of all and the port tool, i can honestly say i was told you a few and fits the full horrible years that have lived in lock. i mean, to this day, the data, the guy tom. but it also showed me the absurdities and brutality. the judge is capable of target. ted, i'm curious to focus as more and more victims of sexual abuse,

raise 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. the solicitations which i have since learned that there's a culture of silence in the church. i know quick to despise, housed things that should be discussed because that's the only way that can be clarified and dealt with properly. a swept under the carpet as on the light. it's then couldn't last month us. the church tries to keep them secret and cover the mom and hide. mister, that's one of us for pushing much to hotel refuses to remain silent any longer. he wrote a book about his experience. the bishop he accused of molesting him, has suitable for defamation. and last 2 court cases, the back on tour, the conditions are quite luxurious for a pilgrimage. the

pilgrims stay at hotels, not monastery guessed houses. and there was no strenuous walking bus driver, david williams, i'm so used to that. the 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 center of celtic christianity starting in the 6th century. but it's not just the picturesque ruins of the medieval priory that draw fatherhood to end his pilgrims. the fuck is here. we know it'd be

a wisc route here because in the ruins of the morning century behind us. and you can still see what's left of the rain. how, how is this to is in the nation batch where the mash was prepared in the initial stage of the beer brewing process. but it's still intact the steam con, perhaps the monks also just do that. did which was common in many motors, draft to obtain a high proof alcohols and thing i was used in monastic, and some are easy to produce medicinal teaches. for me, the technician thing to think of off the top. although it survived the vikings, it couldn't withstand the protestant reformation and the 16th century escaped contents all the system was outlawed as they were 9 months old priests and cats and lakes weren't allowed to practice despite in england and also a neighboring scotland to me for several centuries, ice toss a foot board, but the reformation didn't make whisky distilling disappear. ones the preserve of irish and scottish monasteries. whiskey survived the reformation,

outside monastery walls. the contemporary distillers are happy to share their knowledge. although a risk of explosion means we can't fill that many distilleries, we're welcome to 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 the group listens patiently to the distillery worker. it's the 3rd distillery on this pilgrimage, and they're familiar with most of the facts all ready to start to all for a good start to receive the need. just 3 ingredients, barley, nice and warm, but it's like a ritual. or

a progression to start all is take are barley and put away this 20 percent of costs . they still listen closely to the story of how barley is transformed into with kick it out. in the large master baths, the crushed grain is mixed with hot water. the starts and the barley turns into sugar, strainers sits at the bottom of that and collects the sugar solution. the grain residue remains used has been added, which gets to work, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. save your cost that you're going to get punched by slow part of that. it should be nice, so feel free to come up one by one. have a nice little chunk of it. the when the east culture dies, something like b or emerges. save a pawn shop. there isn't it?

but we prefer something a bit stronger around here. so we're going to take this 3rd to the cell house and produce a spare. copper stills are used for distillation, the temperature, and these bills as close to 90 degree celsius, just below boiling point. i and others prefer any action to those around one percent. 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 whiskey its color and much of its flavor. the it's the same ritual at the end of each distillery tour, a whisky tasting. but instead of with the holy rude offers,

the pilgrims knew make whiskey that's not quite mature yet. because holly root has only been producing since 2019 the bus driver, david understandably, isn't part a king. although he drives lots of tourists. he's especially fond of the whisky pilgrims. it's a very civilized group. yeah. yeah, there's very easy to get along with very friendly. we don't seem to get very drunk because we seem to be interested in how you the whiskey is me then with its common strong stuff like that. so it's not as if they'll just knocking them back. so this thing, so yeah, yeah, i mean this, if there's no chance of, on the, on the box would sound quite happier but, you know, and, but yeah, yeah, well, if we could, and that's also why it's not difficult to start early every day. those gone well, it has planned the tour in detail today. they're focusing on the famous scottish

novelist, sir walter scott its own good sort of office ready to saw signs, 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 to walter scott is said to have loved standing here gazing at the 3 pizza, the alden hills, and the meandering river tweed below. and defend rivers, and it's really beautiful. you know, the 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 present petition and several of the other

sites. i only have 2 more locks. the one i'm going to enroll in so you can start coming inside there, celebrating mass and sir walter scott's own chapel. the religious aspects of this trip are vital to both gung volta. the hind hot gutting left the church, but he booked the pilgrimage. any way he wanted to give religion another shot, a whiskey is just an added bonus. bin. either spoke bizarre, there's an old saying he that whisky is a liquid sunshine, a big one. and then if you taste the whiskey consciously, costa can tell that god wants human life to be good for. indeed, the scot,

this good me once mention line does that he wants to enrich our lives and give us joy to shame and nice and easy. truth continues to show us that we scheming tales even better on and when you enjoy together south and east, but schmidt and of mazda of cindy. it's very interesting what we're doing here. on the one hand, it's about whiskey, which is okay, but you can do that any time. i enjoyed my food, but it's also interesting to know once i'm eating, drinking consciously, living conscious leaves for sleeping consciously in the presence. it's a very interesting idea. finding noise was gone, the water succeeds in bringing people back to the church. people like christine she left more than 30 years ago, but still feels a strong connection to the catholic faith by, excuse, endorsed and lighting the log into my fundamental us. i'm a and fanatics, the minutes of they may see the lights, every single car tones up top. oh,

the think i push it. so i was raised catholic and still feel a connection to catholicism, but a lot of what they teach it too narrow for me, since i'm no longer a member just being towed is a kitchen wolf, gang is different things. so the most gun or does approach is successful. mine a mit stare spinning 25 started developing his spirituality of whiskey a slot when i couldn't sleep one night on my new i can and i had the idea is using my own passion for scotland. so go to the culture and scottish whiskey says that to confront people with questions and they've done the loudest team and believable and

it was successful on the phone. so near the i'm a common mention, people came to might have been type, who wouldn't otherwise think of setting a fortunate to use it would be spread out. in a cases, it seemed to have both gone, who has found his own path in the catholic church and sets his own priorities. he's opened the gate and gives his priestly blessing to queer couples. he also supports ordaining women. he's been a vocal critic of sexual abuse in the catholic church, but not everybody approves that this is on the found this you might be the top it us monday if you me as a disloyal. i know because i focus on the issues that present the judge thing in a bad lights off coupling. the kind good dismissal of the case of allison when some and even my most of received as a troublemaker on the someone who never gives up as humans, as someone who's fixated on, what's important to me, it might be the dots on placed watson beach because the wife calling is i need to

solve, getting embodies something that the church itself doesn't represent currently. i hate to be tries to keep us in a place where we don't want to be honest because of him. i'm not so concerned about leaving the judge. now he think they will just send us the crews out. he's the best priest we could have now. as the catholic church goes through these, trying times to each must have them come, but some is supposed to send you the invoice, talk to you. so what fascinates me about both going? yes, he's unconventional man. a timing conflict doesn't to avoid controversial issues listing on important issues. the pilgrims also have a lot of fun on this tour. the scotland is a land of castles, old fortresses, and quite different, awaits the pilgrims, edinburgh, the some very famous fingers to perform for you. they even brought along a choir. god bless when i can promise you one thing already. right,

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