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There’s plenty more art involved in getting that balance right to create the character of the spirit: the right amount of fruit flavour and alcohol. The science is that once the alcohol starts to boil at around 78C, the steam condenses as it travels through a copper pipe running through another large, tiled vat of cold water.Īs the experienced distillers among you will know the emerging liquid is then divided into the head, the heart and the tails. Jorge explained this is the real art – getting the fire up to the correct temperature and keeping it there. Large plastic blue barrels were stacked up in most of the small room – that’s where the fruit is fermented – and the copper still sits atop the tiled vessel where the wort of fruit is boiled above an open fire made from dried medronho tree branches. We visited his distillery to invest in some bottles of his 48% booze and to ask him about helping us clear the brambles from our new land which he also does with his tractor. “If he was a small dog I’d be happy to operate,” said André Claudio, hospital vet for Baixo Alentejo, “but for something of this size I’d rather recommend you to someone in Lisbon.”Īnd it won’t be an easy trip to the capital for the rural breed of Rafeiro Alentejano who is scared of loud noises, pavements and his own shadow. “When you’ve got that kind of momentum, there’s not much you can do if your paw gets stuck in a mouse hole – that’s why I mostly prefer lying around the house,” added Simon.ĭespite a week of being tricked into taking anti-inflammatory pills hidden in meat, the local vet didn’t like the way he was responding to treatment and a specialist in Beja confirmed he would need surgery. The dog equivalent of a second row forward knows more about sausage rolls than crocodile rolls, but is most likely to have suffered the devastating injury during a mad half hour galloping through the steep valley slopes. Just like the horrific knee injury that ended England rugby flanker Jack Willis’ season, they didn’t show the replay of Garf’s dramatic fall on the telly. He’d developed a unique brand of angry confrontation in the last couple of weeks having met his first estate agent.
