Hello from Portugal

Hello,i´m Portuguese,and i´m thinking in brewing my beer.I just found this excelent forum and i expect to learn many things here.Sorry for my english,is not perfect,i try to do my best.

Hello and welcome. My wife's family is from Madeira, we visited last year for 2 weeks and stayed a couple days is Lisbon. Wonderful place, lots of people had home made wine and agua ardiente (maybe spelled wrong, it was sugar cane alcohol). I had Poncha and Shandy for the first time too. I didn't meet any home brewers tho.

Welcome and enjoy.

Linguisa is Portugese, so Pourtugal is great!!!

Actually it's linguica. Still, outstanding.

govner1 said:

Actually it's linguica. Still, outstanding.

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Actually it´s linguiça,or chouriça.
I´m from Algarve in the south,here we have a great tradition in "aguardente" de medronho,that is a fruit with lot of sugar,and it´s fantastic.Sugar cane alcohol is in Brazil.
Here i think there´s no tradition in home brewing,home wine making,and "aguardente"(deslilled alcohol from wine,and wine mosh,or medronho or figgs) yes.In this last weekend i went to my oncle´s farm to help collect grapes to make wine,he gave me a big botlle from last year,and my god!! What a wine!

If you don't mind me asking... What is the name of the breakfast dish that is kind of an onion soup?

I think i don´t know that,sorry

That's OK, my friend's family is from the Azores. He talks about it, still goes to his mother's house to eat it about once a month. But I haven't convinced him to take me with him yet.

Azores has his own unique cuisine and traditions,most of them i don´t know.
I never been there,but is a place i want to visit some day.It´s still raw nature...
LOok in youtube about an episode of Antony Bourdain about Azores,it´s interesting.

Portugal is a small country,but very rich in cuisine and traditions.