a group of whiskey enthusiasts through scotland. whiskey he says is holy, water, spirituality and spirit in one. the father vote gun 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 about this. i will stop. i just welcome to the promised land of scotland. david williams drives whiskey tours regularly by the 1st gun holt taught him that they can also be seen as christian pilgrimages. didn't

know who i was get and i looked at the identity and i saw the name and doing a sort of proof of gang come off the plane and i noticed out adult color. and as far as like i said to him, is this okay, you know, i'm going to be drinking whiskey and he said, well, you know, the angels drink so, so i was quite a good answer. i didn't really have any answer but something, you know, so yeah, yeah, but it is pretty cool guy. indeed, maybe 20 kids. we don't want to neglect the spirituality the other sense. so let's start with some, pres. yeah, yeah. and the beginning of the 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 feeling his boss sweetheart. things mckesson you done in the, in the name of the father,

the end of this done by the end of the holy spirit. saying that the 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 glen going, the logistics is a my most important aspect is mindfulness and, and we don't just go down the alcohol and we appreciated with 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, an exercise and a motivation, right? when supplies all the people domestic fatherhood, those group bring scientific precision to the tasting room looks more like a laboratory than a pub. this one of the for the yeah. will some less today's the $25.00. and the struggle that you see, there's like a taste you just so that's just on each one of

a $1.00 to $5.00 with the right. i mean, you've gotta be glossed, use in front of a number of what it defines. both gone the whole to also see something define 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 originally prepared 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 to start refilling this one. yeah. like a wayne get some don't taste the whiskey at all. they just snapped up. it's called nosing mother. when you look through this glass on the look straight into the heavens is always causing historically that whiskey has and includes the optical context statement. it's

probably the only product that was invented behind the monastery rolls on the one that 1st of all, we have a product in front of us that is really ecclesiastical us, victim religious and origin. kick me thing, but any use or sponsors to can more strong both gone. gold 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. yes. bought me. what time she has like scotch whisky, anyone who likes whiskey 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, holt 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 to isaac. come my disgust, and shame plus mine. good told me i didn't know what the bishop gave me. i knew spastic visual for me. yeah. it was a psycho tropic drug and alcohol was a very bad combination with unemployment, final pharma coordinates. i don't think but face the did, i don't remember what happened off to that and, and seamless. i thought later that night and i fell in an old jump from the balcony of my apartment. invite them fall off. these are not, i don't know if i put in my novel, i just don't remember fi and explosion, but so you might as far as it's 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 was on the port tool. i can honestly say i was told you few and fits the full horrible years that have lived in lockerman to this day. haven't the data, the guy tom, but it also showed me the absurdities and brutality the judge is capable of probably passed the case of faith 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. dustin with distance 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. swept under the carpet as lawn and glided fed and couldn't last month us. the church tries to keep them secret and cover the bottom and hide mister the, some of us for pushing our sta. 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 centre of celtic christianity starting in the 6th century. but it's not just the picture ask ruins of the medieval priory that draw fatherhood to end his pilgrims. the fuck is here. we know d. a was rude here because in the ruins of the morning century behind us. and you can still see what's left of the bird ring. 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 interesting clinic that helps the monks also just do that. the which was common in many motors draft to obtain a high proof alcohols and thing article he was used in monastic, and some are easy to produce medicinal teaches for me to mission control and come off the top. although it survived the vikings, it couldn't withstand of the protestant reformation in the 16th century. it's got

kind of, it's almost as i'm was out load as they were 9 months of crazies and catholics weren't allowed to practice despite the new england and also a neighboring scotland to me. for several centuries, ice tossed 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 my many distilleries, we're welcome to borders distillery and are given a little safety briefing as we enter. and 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 wanna 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 where see 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 it 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 mash baths, the crushed grain is mixed with hot water. the starch in the barley turns into sugar. a strainer sits at the bottom of the bat and collects the sugar solution. the grain residue remains used has been added, which gets to work producing alcohol and carbon dioxide,

cos 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 is 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 in these bills is close to 90 degree celsius, just below boiling point. i and others prefer the high stream of 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 whisky its color and much of its flavor. the it's the same ritual at the end of each distillery to work a whisky tasting. but instead of with the holy rude offers, the pilgrims knew make whiskey that's not quite mature yet. because holly rude has only been producing since 2019 the bus driver, david understandably, isn't part taken. 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 so i'm just knocking them back sort of thing. so yeah, yeah, i mean this, if there's no chance of on the, on the boss to its own, quite happier but, you know, and, but yeah, yeah, lovely, good. 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 gets on good. wouldn't be ready to solve the sides. 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 peaks of the island hills and the meandering river tweed below that

rivers. and it's really beautiful. no. oh, the next stop is abbotsford house. so walter scott's home, the tour guide priest has something special in store who wants to say one of the present petitioner bits and several of yeah so i, i only have 2 more blocks. 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 hod 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 of them on. and then if you taste the whiskey consciously, acosta can tell that god wants human life to be good from deem the scot this good. once mention line does, yeah, he wants to invite you to our lives and give us joy to shame. nice and easy. truth continues to show us that we schema tales even better on and when you enjoy together south and east. but schmidt and the mazda, of which 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, leaving consciously in the presence. it's a very interesting idea. when it was gone,

the water succeeds in bringing people back to the church. people like christine, she laughed more than 30 years ago but still feels a strong connection to the catholic faith by excuse and last enlightened the log into my fundamental us, i'm a and fanatics them and so they may see the light every simpkins called tones up top oh, the go to what is 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. so i'm no longer a member just being towed as a kitchen like wolf gang is different things so that was gone or does approach is successful. is mine

a mit stare spinning 25 started developing a 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, insight on the loudest team, and invaluable tool, and it was successful on the phone. so near the i'm a common mention, people came to my events side who wouldn't otherwise think of setting a fortunate to use what the spread out. in the cases, it seemed to them 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

adjustment, they view me as a lawyer. i know because i focused on issues that present the judge thing in a bad lights off coupling. the kind 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 biggest was 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 because of him. i'm not so concerned about leaving the judge. no, he thinks they will just send us the crews out. he's the best price we could have now. as the catholic church goes through these, trying times to each must have them come. let's let me see if i send you the invoice to talk to. so what fascinates me about both going? yes, he's unconventional manner kind them conflict doesn't to avoid controversial issues on the struck me as a man at the church some years ago. and 5,

we have audited the call from out fine. pa, young. the, in addition to focusing on important issues, the pilgrims also have a lot of fun on this tour. the scotland is a land of castles, old fortresses, and beautiful scenery. the negotiating a traditional maze is on every tourist's bucket list. the quite different awaits the pilgrims. edinburgh, 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 of these visibly embarrassed. yeah. as well. it was under 5, isn't a really lovely trip. and that's why we spared neither expense nor effort to engage

some very famous fingers to perform for you. they even brought along acquire clement people. i proudly percent this pretty much thing was the good news by morgan is the own. costa and this is good to go and his home parish vote is gone. vote is only an assistant. the pastor is deputy, it's a humble position for a man who holds to doctor it, but he doesn't seem to mind as long as he can continue working as a priest. thank you

very much. god bless you, let me close you fast. oh, lovely. thank you. god bless when i can promise you one thing already. right this and i'll start planning next year's trip the day after tomorrow. at the latest i it's been off in the queue. i'm still in the judge side even slightly because i want to make sure my opinions are being heard occasionally. smith on and if i were to leave, 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 fable and toy she missed the

boat gun was. i love the catholic church in spite of everything. he loves catholic spirituality, the churches, traditions, and rituals. and who knows? perhaps the self proclaimed a church rebel is creating a new tradition with his whisky pilgrimages. the

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