Guest: Julia Mellor – The Sool Company https://thesoolcompany.com
The Glories and Stories of Korean Liquor. Korean sool specialist and brewer Julia Mellor shares the uniqueness of Korean alcohol and boozy traditions.
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Music by Soraksan
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Laura Casey
- Julia’s initial interesting in alcohol and Korean alcohol
- History of booze
- Key Korean booze
- Issues with alcoholism/overconsumption
- Drunkenness is a legal defence
- Booze in culture and lore
- Sool-gwishin (discussed on previous episode)
- Offerings to spirits and deities
- Attended many sanshinjae
- Drinking after hiking
- Drinking on rainy days
- Drinking culture of commoners
- Farmers
- Pimatgol
- Food with booze
- Hangover food and ‘curative’ drinks
- Makgeolli Festival
- Joe’s story – being teetotal for a year (Okay?)
- Perspective of Koreans (I did brief interviews asking Koreans how they would describe Korean drinking culture to those unfamiliar with it)
