»God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world«


Content with the tag: Irish

Bushmills 10 Year old

The bench­mark Irish sin­gle malt, this has a far greater depth of flavour than stan­dard Irish blends. Win­ner of the ‘Best Irish Sin­gle Malt Whiskey in the World’ at last year’s World Whiskies Awards.


Bushmills Distillery

The Old Bush­mills Dis­tillery was founded in 1608 and is now owned by the major drinks com­pany Dia­geo. Bush­mills whiskey is pro­duced, matured, and bot­tled on-site at the Bush­mills Dis­tillery in Bush­mills, County Antrim, North­ern Ire­land. The dis­tillery is a…


Connemara 1992, Single Cask

A rare sin­gle cask bot­tling from Con­nemara Dis­tillery. Bot­tled from cask K92/313804 which was filled on 11th August 1992 and bot­tled on 20th June 2008, this should be phenomenal.

Named after one of the most famous regions in Ire­land, Connemara…


Cooley Distillery

Coo­ley Dis­tillery is the only inde­pen­dent, Irish-owned whiskey dis­tillery in Ire­land, con­verted in 1987 from an older indus­trial potato ethanol plant by John Teel­ing. The Dis­tillery is located on the Coo­ley Penin­sula in County Louth on Ireland’s eastern coast.

The dis­tillery…


Green Spot

A fab­u­lous pure pot­still whiskey, exalted by con­nois­seurs as one of the finest Irish whiskeys avail­able. Vibrant and very char­ac­ter­ful, Green Spot must be tried by seri­ous fans of Irish Whiskey.

Green Spot is a pure pot still Irish whiskey,…


Jameson 12 Year old / Special Reserve

For­merly known as ‘1780’ in ref­er­ence to the year the orig­i­nal Jame­son dis­tillery in Bow Street, Dublin, was founded, this has recently been relaunched as ‘Spe­cial Reserve’. A smooth, spicy, sweet potstill-based blend.

Jame­son 12 Year Old Spe­cial Reserve,


Malt Mission 2010 #376

Jame­son Irish Whiskey 40% abv£17 $25 (USD) $30 (CAD)Married to a mem­ber of the Haig Scotch whisky dynasty, founder John Jame­son moved from Scot­land to Ire­land and began mak­ing the water of life in 1780. Orig­i­nally pro­duced at one of the six Dublin di…


Malt Mission 2010 #378

Con­nemara 12yoIrish Sin­gle Malt Whiskey 40% abv£55$95 (USD)Another Irish drop, and an unusual one at that as it’s only dis­tilled twice (most Irish is triple-distilled). And in pot stills, no less, the way God intended…“The sav­iour of Irish whisky”, …


New Midleton Distillery

The Midle­ton dis­til­leries com­plex is sit­u­ated out­side Midle­ton, Co. Cork, Ire­land. It is owned by Pernod-Ricard. Located along­side is the Old Midle­ton Dis­tillery which was estab­lished in the early 17th century.

His­tory

In 1966, John Power & Son, John…


St Patrik’s day

To cel­e­brate St Patrik’s day I’ve added some of the Irish Whiskey Dis­til­leries and a few whiskies that are pro­duced in Ire­land. Check out the Coo­ley Dis­tillery, the Bush­mills Dis­tillery or the Con­nemara from 1992 bot­tle. You could also use…