Brew Moon

An Irish twist on an Espresso Martini that had us up all night...just like the subject of our show this week: werewolves! Brew Moon, get it? Yea, we can't stop singing the song either !

We turned our attention to one of this island's longest standing lupine cryptids, focusing on everything from saints' curses to what exactly is a viral werewolf we found that the folklore is older than we ever thought...even within popular culture!

A staple of any horror podcast we knew we were in for the long 'howl' (so, so, sorry but I'm too caffeinated to make better puns) and that Ireland was going to offer some serious stories of wolfish shenanigans - despite the fact we haven't had wolves (were or otherwise) for over 200 years. We tackled gender, puberty & good old fashioned folklore in all it's 'lycanthropic' glory thanks to Alex's 'Brew Moon' - swapping vodka for poitín and trying the Jameson Cold Brew, the full recipe can be found on our Instagram at: @irishspiritspodcast

Our apologies if we were speaking too fast!

The sources that kept us wired to the moon were: dúchas.ie, Tarquin Blake's Haunted Ireland,  'How a tale of cursed werewolves in Ireland finds its way to 13th century Norway' by Minjie Su  on medievalists.net, John Carey's ‘Werewolves in Medieval Ireland’, Brereton’s Phantasmagoria, Werewolves: A Hunter’s Guide by Graeme Davis, Matthew Beresford’s The White Devil: The Werewolf in European Culture,  David Wyatt’s Slaves and Warriors in Medieval Britain and Ireland, Leslie Sconduto’s ‘Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity through the Renaissance, Catherine Karkov’s. "Tales of the Ancients: Colonial Werewolves and the Mapping of Post-Colonial Ireland,  The Cursed and the Committed: A Study in Literary Representations of ‘Involuntary’ Shapeshifting in Early Medieval Irish and Old Norse Narrative Tradition by Camilla Pedersen With, https://www.celticwhiskeyshop.com/blog/Poitin,%20Ireland,%20history, https://punchdrink.com/recipes/stefano-dorsognas-espresso-martini/, https://punchdrink.com/articles/ultimate-best-espresso-martini-cocktail-recipe/, https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1066&context=honorscollege_theses, https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/vatican-slams-twilight-series/story-iklbHYQ6i1pjmQsYCU6cgI.html & https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/witches-vampires-and-werewolves-10-ghoulish-archaeological-discoveries-004402 

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