Distillery Palinkamuseum - Visegrád

Distillery Palinkamuseum bemutatása

Our Pálinka Museum opened to the public at the end of May, 2013 in Visegrád. Visitors can find here detailed information about the era when pálinka distillation was outlawed, from the time of the Hungarian Republic of Councils of 1919 to 2010. Two short films show the history of pálinka distilling, and visitors can also watch an interesting compilation about the ingredients of pálinka, including medicinal pálinka. Our films titled "The Methods of Fermentation and Illegal "Moonshine" Distillation" reveal exciting secrets about how our ancestors protected themselves against excise men and where they hid their illegally, yet continuously distilled pálinka in order to save their values. By watching our film shot in a "Kisüsti" distillery viewers can learn about the process of preparing "kisüsti"(pot still) pálinka.
In the building of the pálinka museum there used to be a grocer's store at around the turn of the century. It explains why there is an ice house under the building. This place is also part of the museum and the interactive scene of a moonshine pálinka distillation has also been placed here.