Drinking tonight in Santiago?

[mspath]

Are you drinking tonight, 31/10/2017, in Santiago? Perhaps it is THE time to share a firey Celtic brew, queimada. Learn why in this timely BBC reportage. http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20171030-galicias-mythic-drink-of-blue-fire

 

[Tincatinker]

Good old Beeb. But I guess the researcher never came across Jesus Jato at Ave Fenix. They might have harvested a different interpretation of queimada than the 'wedding party' one.

I have fires to light. Happy new year everyone

 

[Duayne Meyer]

Why, yes, I AM drinking in Santiago even as I type this. I shall watch for the blue flames and coldrons and act accordingly. Down the hatch!

 

[Levi]

In Santiago last month I saw this being prepared late at night complete with incantations. It was in one of the narrow, dark streets near the cathedral. Very atmospheric. Thank you mspath for the link.

 

[Duayne Meyer]

Bar Retablo is the place (or at least A place). Alas, It doesn’t open until midnight. I’m afraid that’s a wee bit past my Camino passout/bed time.

 

[SYates]

Are you drinking tonight, 31/10/2017, in Santiago? Perhaps it is THE time to share a firey Celtic brew, queimada. Learn why in this timely BBC reportage. http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20171030-galicias-mythic-drink-of-blue-fire

So many factual mistakes in this article - it just makes me shaking me head ... SY

PS Queimada is NOT a historic Galician drink, it was invented in the 1950s - mas on menos ...

 

[nycwalking]

In 2002, while working as a hospitalera, my Spanish co-hospie, performed quemada for pilgrims: in graveyard, at night, at cemetery next to albergue in Ponferrada. He spoke incantations, and a Catholic priest was in attendance. It was very spooky and very, very wonderful.

 

[Stephen]

In 2002, while working as a hospitalera, my Spanish co-hospie, performed quemada for pilgrims: in graveyard, at night, at cemetery next to albergue in Ponferrada. He spoke incantations, and a Catholic priest was in attendance. It was very spooky and very, very wonderful.

When you're indulging in potent stuff, orujo for example, conjuring up spirits with incantations seems superfluous.

 

[Saint Mike II]

So many factual mistakes in this article - it just makes me shaking me head ... SY

PS Queimada is NOT a historic Galician drink, it was invented in the 1950s - mas on menos ...

Hola Syb, you know journalists they never let the truth get in the way of a good story!

 

[HedaP]

Good old Beeb. But I guess the researcher never came across Jesus Jato at Ave Fenix. They might have harvested a different interpretation of queimada than the 'wedding party' one.

I have fires to light. Happy new year everyone

Another article. http://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/fo...rving-and-its-origins-in-scottish-traditions/

 

[nycwalking]

When you're indulging in potent stuff, orujo for example, conjuring up spirits with incantations seems superfluous.

Maybe, because I don't drink, just took a sip, I need the incantations and other witchy add-ons.

 

[SabsP]

Are you drinking tonight, 31/10/2017, in Santiago? Perhaps it is THE time to share a firey Celtic brew, queimada. Learn why in this timely BBC reportage. http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20171030-galicias-mythic-drink-of-blue-fire

Factual mistakes or not, like the article states : it brings people together. And that is always a good thing.

 

[Pelegrin]

So many factual mistakes in this article - it just makes me shaking me head ... SY

PS Queimada is NOT a historic Galician drink, it was invented in the 1950s - mas on menos ...

Yes the Celts didn´t have Orujo because they didn't have stills to make it.
It seems that Queimada was invented in Argentina by Galician inmigrants.

 

[Pelegrin]

Here is a link to an article about Mariano Marcos de Abalo, the man who wrote the text of the apparently popular incantation poem more or less exactly 50 years ago.

Wikipedia (EN) says that typically the queimada ritual takes place during St John's Night or 'witches' night' on 23 June. I understand that it is now also popular on New Year's Eve, on Halloween and generally at parties. @Pelegrin or anyone else who knows: before the arrival of Halloween in Europe, was there any local tradition connected with the evening of 31 October? And, out of curiosity, does this day even have a special name in Spanish or Galician? (AFAIK, it doesn't in French or German or Italian).

I have heard of and old custom (now lost) of putting candles inside pumpkins in some parts of Galicia and/or Asturias but I don´t have enough information.
There isn´t any special name in Galician and as far as I know in Spanish for Halloween
The Galician traditidion more similar to Halloween is the Santa Compaña, but this group of living dead can walk every night of the year.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Good old Beeb. But I guess the researcher never came across Jesus Jato at Ave Fenix. They might have harvested a different interpretation of queimada than the 'wedding party' one.

I have fires to light. Happy new year everyone

The first time I walked into Jesus Jato's I was dripping wet from a passing storm and I thought I'd stumbled into a bandit lair in a Hollywood movie. They were full up so I stayed in the municipal but he did take my pack up to O'Ceb the next day.

I hear the ceremony is never to be forgotten!

 

[Tincatinker]

Jeff - you had indeed stumbled into a bandit lair from a Hollywood movie. Just a really special kind of good bandit with a soul as deep as the hills