What non Whiskey or Rum Spirit (Cognac, Mezcal, Calvados etc) are we drinking?

odyssey06 · 23-05-2021 4:13pm

Is marc unaged brandy effectively?

Pops up in Maigret stories along with the armagnac and calvados.

Effects · 26-05-2021 8:26pm

I see Con Trass is distilling his cider with Tipperary Boutique Distillery. Look forward to trying that.

Beersmith · 29-05-2021 9:33am

Cazale wrote: »

6 Mezcals in about 50 mins. I'm glad I've no work tomorrow! It was a really great tasting with some amazing samples. I'll have to get a full bottle for the collection.

Did you actually listen to the live tasting stream? The audio quality was atrocious. I couldn't stand it.

Cazale · 29-05-2021 1:50pm

Beersmith wrote:

Did you actually listen to the live tasting stream? The audio quality was atrocious. I couldn't stand it.

Yeah I do listen to most of them with headphones. Audio with the rep wasn't great but I suppose with the Mexican accent and different time zone that was expected. I was still able to enjoy it and take copious notes. I've done hundreds of video call meetings in work over the last year so maybe I'm just immune to them at this stage.

odyssey06 · 30-05-2021 7:29pm

Enjoying Mount Gay Eclipse golden rum from Barbados... both for sipping and in a dark n stormy.

If you like Havana Club Anejo Especial worth trying out as an upgrade.

interlocked · 01-06-2021 4:25pm

https://symphoniaspirits.com/introducing-symphonias-apple-rum-the-limited-edition-symphonia-no-4/

This stuff is going on sale in Aldi on June 20th @€;35 for 500ml. Made in Tyrone, I'd never heard of them until I saw it in the Aldi brochure.

Anyone sampled it already?

the beer revolu · 02-06-2021 7:51am

interlocked wrote: »

https://symphoniaspirits.com/introducing-symphonias-apple-rum-the-limited-edition-symphonia-no-4/

This stuff is going on sale in Aldi on June 20th @€;35 for 500ml. Made in Tyrone, I'd never heard of them until I saw it in the Aldi brochure.

Anyone sampled it already?

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that this is not a legally labelled product. You can't add spices and apple juice to a product and call it "rum". Just like you couldn't have "apple whiskey".
I looked at that link and couldn't find the abv of this product on the website.

irish_goat · 02-06-2021 9:57am

Rum liqueur basically, I think they're being downright dishonest with the labelling.

odyssey06 · 02-06-2021 10:03am

It seems not that far off 'Zaconey' ... I remember a few threads over the years for people trying to track down the last remaining bottles of that.

Buddy97mm · 02-06-2021 10:12am

From EU Regulation on definition of spirit drinks, Reg 2019/787

CATEGORIES OF SPIRIT DRINKS
1.Rum
(a)Rum is a spirit drink produced exclusively by the distillation of the product obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of molasses or syrup produced in the manufacture of cane sugar or of sugar-cane juice itself, distilled at less than 96 % vol., so that the distillate has the discernible specific organoleptic characteristics of rum.
(b)The minimum alcoholic strength by volume of rum shall be 37,5 %.
(c)No addition of alcohol, diluted or not, shall take place.
(d)Rum shall not be flavoured.
(e)Rum may only contain added caramel as a means of adjusting the colour.
(f)Rum may be sweetened in order to round off the final taste. However, the final product may not contain more than 20 grams of sweetening products per litre, expressed as invert sugar.

BonnieSituation · 02-06-2021 10:12am

interlocked wrote: »

https://symphoniaspirits.com/introducing-symphonias-apple-rum-the-limited-edition-symphonia-no-4/

This stuff is going on sale in Aldi on June 20th @€;35 for 500ml. Made in Tyrone, I'd never heard of them until I saw it in the Aldi brochure.

Anyone sampled it already?

Are they anything to do with Íon, who seemed to have gone all quiet last time I was checking them out?

BeerNut · 02-06-2021 11:42am

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Are they anything to do with Íon, who seemed to have gone all quiet last time I was checking them out?

Other than sharing a county, no, it doesn't look like it.

the beer revolu · 02-06-2021 2:22pm

irish_goat wrote: »

Rum liqueur basically, I think they're being downright dishonest with the labelling.

It's more than misleading, it's actually illegal as I understand it.

Problem is that, in Ireland, unless it's whiskey, no one really cares about label compliance. Anything labelled as "spiced rum" is not compliant, either. There's loads of gin liqueurs labelled as "gin" about the place, too.
There was a very big selling gin which up until fairly recently was labelled as Distilled and Bottled by........, when the reality was that it was a compounded gin and wasn't distilled at all!! I believe they have cleared up that issue, now.

Effects · 03-06-2021 9:21am

the beer revolu wrote: »

There was a very big selling gin which up until fairly recently was labelled as Distilled and Bottled by........, when the reality was that it was a compounded gin and wasn't distilled at all!! I believe they have cleared up that issue, now.

I had to look up what a compound gin is. Seems I've made a bunch of them myself down through the years.

I guess I'm a distiller now too.

Effects · 07-08-2021 10:56pm

Has anyone here visited anywhere in the Armagnac region? Looking for a nice distillery or two to visit.

Was hoping to head to Cognac from Bordeaux, but it's the opposite direction to my final destination. Armagnac is only a short detour of about an extra hours drive.

limnam · 22-08-2021 7:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/116937475#Comment_116937475

I haven't seen it for awhile now

Any news? Is it sold out? will it becoming out again or?

odyssey06 · 22-08-2021 7:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117721880#Comment_117721880

Fraid not, but let us know how you got on!

the beer revolu · 23-08-2021 7:58am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117789955#Comment_117789955

Should be more on the shelves in September.

Effects · 23-08-2021 9:04am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117789993#Comment_117789993

As I often find with French websites, they aren't very informative. Hoping to swing a visit to one place on a Sunday, via a contact I have here in Dublin.

I also want to visit a cooperage while there. My other half tried to suggest we find one closer to where we are going in the South. She's forgetting that we had this discussion the last time we drove, and that there aren't any cooperages in the south 😂

Hugo_Whoriskey · 23-08-2021 1:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117789955#Comment_117789955

Happened to be in aldi in Tyrrelstown last week and there was a last bottle there which I happily grabbed, you might be lucky somewhere

Black Sheep · 23-08-2021 3:53pm

I finally opened the bottle of Stillgarden O'Maro ("Ireland's first amaro") that we've had knocking around.

It is actually quite nice, and the native botanical element comes through very strongly. I enjoyed it on that level and could recommend it as a gift, for example.

But for me it's just far too sweet. In fairness, reviewing their copy, although they bill it as something you could use to make a negroni they also do extensively mention a "sweet finish", so there you go.

cloudatlas · 29-08-2021 12:45pm

Anybody try the Sake from Aldi?

03-09-2021 8:50pm

Gonna try out a recent purchase shortly - G&T. But the T is for tea!

Blackwater Gin with Barry's Tea.

Black Sheep · 05-09-2021 11:21am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117843896#Comment_117843896

Next up, gin flavoured with Tayto crisps?

the beer revolu · 05-09-2021 11:54am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117848981#Comment_117848981

Having done Bsrry's Tea gin and Tanora gin, believe me, the Tayto c&o idea has been knocking around for a while now!

05-09-2021 1:31pm

Had it. Bleh, just tasted like usual gin, which I'm not a huge fan of.

Beanstalk · 22-09-2021 1:00pm

In Italy recently I was in a small café in a village in the mountains and they had some nice spirits. I'm not familiar with rum at all but i had some Zapaca Solera 23 and my god it was lovely. Picked up a bottle in the local shop to take home as well for €50.