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The History of St. Patrick's Day with Scott Mertie | Nashville Brewing Bonus · The Brewery Underground Podcast | Craft Beer Interviews, Reviews and Beer Travel

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  Since it is Saint Patrick's Day, I thought I'd throw out a little
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  trivia for you guys, just a little historical information
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  about Saint Patrick's. There really was the Saint
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  Patrick, right? He had absolutely nothing to do
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  with beer, or you know, green beer by all means.
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  But you know how Saint Patrick's, how all that came
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  about was his, his real name was was Merwin Sukat.
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  I think I'm pronouncing that right.
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  But he was actually English. He was not even Irish, but he
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  was from England and at 16 years old he got kidnapped and got
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  enslaved in Ireland. So he was brought to Ireland and
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  working basically on a big farm plantation.
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  And this is over in the 400. So we're talking 1600 years ago
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  and was enslaved there. He was, I think 6 years.
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  He was held in captivity, forced labor, and he eventually
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  escaped. And he had prayed every night.
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  If he has the ability to escape, he would devote his life to God.
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  And so ultimately, after six years, he escaped, found his way
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  back to England. And from there he entered the
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  church and became a priest. After maybe like 15 years, I
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  think of studying, he ended up becoming a priest and then he
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  devoted his life to, I was there mostly, you know, there were
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  pagans back then. So he devoted his life to
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  spreading the word of Christianity in Ireland to the
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  area that kidnapped him. So he went back to Ireland and
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  started spreading Christianity. And he used the Clover as a way
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  to talk about the Holy Trinity, the Father, Son, the Holy
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  Spirit, the three leaves of the Clover.
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  That's why the Shamrock is kind of the, what we know of, as you
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  know, tie that in with with Saint Patrick's Day.
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  But his Christian name, when he adopted a Christian name after
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  converting Christianity became he was Patrick.
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  So then ultimately he was sainted, became Saint Patrick.
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  And that's the reason for the Shamrock.
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  And I can't tell you where the green beer came.
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  Where does that tie in with the? Yeah, but you know, dry stout
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  Ireland. We all think of Guinness and
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  other other dry stouts as, as the national beer, you know,
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  that we drank on Saint Patty's Day, not green beer, but that's,
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  that was the, the, the prevalent beer that came about.
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  And so that's what we celebrate Saint Patrick's Day today with.
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  We're happy he existed. Yeah.
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  Sorry you got kidnapped, but exactly.
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  And there you have it, the history of Saint Patrick's.
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  Day. Happy Saint Patrick's Day.
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  The things. You learned.
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  The things you learned on the Brewery Underground podcast,
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  well, fantastic. Well, Scott Murray from National
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  Brewing Company, we appreciate you so much today joining us on
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  this podcast. And again, this was our our very
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  first podcast on location. We're glad to host it.
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  Yeah, yeah, definitely. And I look forward to, I know we
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  both do look forward to talking to you again soon because Yep,
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  we appreciate it definitely. Let me say thanks you.
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  You came in early. We're the only ones in the
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  brewery. You'll get up for us.
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  Yeah, we're going to drink some more beer and do a tour here in
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  a second. That's.
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  Great. Yes, thank you very.
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  Much looking forward to it. All right, everybody, we, we
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  appreciate it. I'm Steve Sullivan or the
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  chancellor of prep, your Scott Turon.
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  This has been the Brewery Underground podcast.
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  Cheers.