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Kevin O'Gorman takes up the mantle as Master of Distillation & Maturation in the New Midleton Distillery. Brian Nation, the current Master Distiller is stepping down to work with a startup distillery in the United States.
The ballot for Redbreast's Dream Cask 28 Year old Ruby Port cask finish has now gone live. Find out all the details about this year's release and where you can sign up to be a part of the ballot here.
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Recently there have been many discussions around legislating for Irish brewers/distillers to only use Irish grown grain and I have written this to explain why I think that protectionist policies would be detrimental to the Irish whiskey industry
Whiskey Gift is an online personalised blending service that launched today from Cork, where You become the blender choosing to craft your bottle from any permutation of 12 source whiskeys. A well designed website and a cool idea
A whiskey's water source can often be lauded as one of the greatest differentiation points of a brand, but should a whiskey's water source be something we pay attention to? I'm here to tell you why I say, no.
The World Whiskies Awards winners in each category and the World's Best Irish whiskeys in each category also.
The results from the World Whiskies Awards 2020 were announced yesterday with a host of different whisk(e)y categories and styles from every whiskey producing country in the world being judged on a like for like basis. As always, there was a strong Irish contingent entered into the awards, that are judged in London. The whiskeys... Continue Reading →
We all know what the minimum age a spirit has to be to be Irish whiskey don't we? Maybe not.