We often ask ourselves What If.. What if we had done the things we wanted to do but didn’t just in case we failed, or it was not what we thought it would be. What If we just did it without asking why!! Its interesting and exciting when new products and innovations hit the markets,…
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Clonakilty Double Oak Finish
I have said it many times that Irish whiskey has an important role within the whisky world and is long overdue the respect it should be given. Once considered as one of the worlds finest whiskey products it has long since fallen from grace, but that is changing. Over the past few years the Irish…
Time to talk Myths
There has been plenty to talk about within the world of whisky over the years with several myths being busted and put to rights. These include Whisky is a mans drink, whisky is spelled with an E or is it without, who knows these days, the regions within Scotland represent the styles, Irish is triple…
Copperworks 3 Year Old – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Copperworks Whisky and America is not always the perfect pairing, as we are all aware America is all about Bourbon, or so we thought.. Whiskey is widespread and a dominant spirit made all over the world and no matter if you call it whisky or whiskey, all that ever matters is the end result.. But,…
Heaven Hill 10 Year Old 2009 (cask #152724) – The Single Cask
Heaven Hill Founded in 1935 and originally known as the “Old Heavenhill Springs” distillery, it was 5 brothers from the Shapiro family and a group of investors that were behind the founding of this new distillery, founded shortly after Prohibition ended in Bardstown, Kentucky and in a time of depression and great hardship in the…
Teeling Brabazon Bottling Series 1
Teeling Teeling whisky is not only one of the first names you think about within the Irish whiskey industry it is also one of the oldest names in the industry too, Teeling can trace its heritage as far back as 1782 when Walter Teeling opened up a distillery In Marrowbone lane in the Liberties area…
The Hanson – JJ Corry
When we talk about whisky, most of us instantly think of Scotland, it is inevitable, but, don’t overlook Irish Whiskey.. A while back I was introduced to a new concept, well I say new, maybe I should say reborn, Irish bonders.. The original way of buying a lot of the whisky in days gone past…
Jameson’s Triple – Triple
Jameson We have all seen this Irish whiskey sitting on just about every whisky shelf in supermarkets, one of the biggest selling brands of whisky the world over and yet its not a staple in any whisky drinkers household that I know !! Go figure.. Selling over 8 million cases world wide in 2019 (…
James E Pepper 3 year old PX Cask Finish That Boutique-y Whisky Company
James E Pepper Established in 1780 the legacy of this iconic American distillery is obvious to see when you start to look into the history and although today the name might not quite be on everyone’s lips it certainly should be somewhere in the back of your mind if you are at all into Bourbon…
24 Year Old Bourbon whiskey Batch 1 – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
That Boutique-y Whisky Company When Christmas comes around we have always bought a Calendar for the kids and then my world changed !! Advent calendars suddenly appeared with whisky within them.. Then That Boutique-y Whisky Company launched theirs and the rest is history, this will be my third year with this calendar and I am…
Michter’s Small Batch Bourbon
Michter’s Shively Distillery Located in Shively, Louisville, Michter’s Distillery is spread across 12.8 acres or around 87,000 square feet, this facility is the home to all of Michter’s processing and bottling operations, as well as two of its small pot stills. October 2014, Michter’s installed a custom-built 32 inch diameter, 46 foot high copper column…
Whistle Pig 10 year old Rye Whiskey
Whistle Pig Just imagine a setting.. A picturesque ranch set in the beautiful area of Vermont, USA, crops, oak and water, a man with a vision of producing a high end whiskey.. Mix it all together and you have the birth of a whiskey.. What next.. Raj Bhakta, the founder of Whistle Pig Whiskey bought…
There’s an E in these tri Teeling Whiskies
Teeling Whiskey Teeling whisky can trace its heritage back to 1782 when Walter Teeling opened up a distillery In Marrowbone lane in the Liberties area of Dublin which was at the time named the “Golden Triangle “ due to the number of distilleries operating in that area. The distillery was later bought out by the…
Irish Single malt 13 year old batch 2 – That Boutique-y Whisky Company
Irish Single Malt Another superb Irish single malt from That Boutiquey Whisky Company is on offer in today’s review.. Hailing from an undisclosed distillery in Ireland and once again proudly supporting the psychedelic horse reference from father Ted this 13 year old can only be from a small number of distilleries so let’s take a…
Redbreast 25. La Maison du Whisky.
Sometimes a whisky jumps out at you and you have that feeling somewhere deep down that this could be rather special, it might be that the particular whisky is from a favourite distillery or just one of those dream Drams. A while back I was sent through a small bottle of Redbreast 25yo that had…
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