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What whisk(e)y are we drinking? (Part 2)

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  • #3272
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,312 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121413710#Comment_121413710

    Yep!



  • #3273
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,046 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Anyone drinking any actual whiskey anymore? 😁

    I've 2 nice single malts picked out to take the edge off after MCing a book launch.

    Killowen Rum & Raisin 6 year old. Trying it with ice tonight after sampling it neat 24 hours ago. I'm already wishing it came in a bottle bigger than 50cl!

    I've a sample of the Teeling Renaissance Series 5 to have next, an 18 year old single malt finished in Calvados casks.



  • #3274
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121414437#Comment_121414437

    Do you like the JD Sinatra and JD Single neat, with ice or with a mixer?

    do you think they are worth the extra money over the bullit/makers mark?

    I've toyed with buying them but then defaulted to irish stuff instead.



  • #3275
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121414864#Comment_121414864

    Good for you. Enjoy. They are all great northern whiskeys I think??



  • #3276
    Insect Overlord
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121415032#Comment_121415032

    I've no idea where Killowen is sourced, but it tastes different enough that I wouldn't have guessed Great Northern. Very interesting if they were produced in the same place.

    I know Thomond Gate, for example, are getting their whiskey from that distillery until they can start producing their own stuff, but again it's just different enough that I wouldn't have assumed it came from the same place. Different styles, strengths, finishes and age statements, I suppose. Fascinating to compare and contrast them.



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  • #3277
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121415093#Comment_121415093

    I am so far from an expert. I am most likely wrong.

    But its a nice little hobby trying different stuff. Along as you stay away from stupidly expensive bottles!

    I opened a inskillen ice bottle tonight. Really unimpressed so far. Will try again another day, but right now it's destiny is with lemonade/or sugar and bitters.



  • #3278
    Seve OB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,312 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121414902#Comment_121414902

    Over ice

    the single barrel is worth it

    sinatra not



  • #3279
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,818 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121415093#Comment_121415093

    Great Northern produce a vast range of styles. There really is no "house" style, so to speak.

    They do malt, potstill, grain, blends, peated, unpeated. It really is a huge whiskey factory - and a very good one, at that.



  • #3280
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,046 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121416240#Comment_121416240

    It's amazing that they can create bespoke flavours for the different companies they supply. Bad for the liver and bank balance, but always fun to taste!



  • #3281
    adaminho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭adaminho


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121415093#Comment_121415093

    In fairness to Nick he's moving towards a more Limerick central style with his own Barley, Limerick water and even sourcing peat from Ahane supplied from one of my colleagues own Bog!



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  • #3282
    janiejones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭janiejones


    I heard an interview a while back with Dr John Teeling (senior) from Great Northern and he was talking about setting up mini (by industrial standards) distillery on site to handle stuff like that. Contract distilling to specs provided and maybe with their grain/barley.

    Going by the interview, at the moment they already do this for a few customers but with demand for irish whiskey growing it eats into production to go changingbthe settings too much (Moreso the own farm barley was a hassle)

    It was a really good interview, whiskey chats podcast. He's the guy who set up Cooley when there was only bushmills and midleton, he's the dad of the Teeling brothers and he's a tee totaler



  • #3283
    Insect Overlord
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121417260#Comment_121417260

    Aye, I've been following his story since early on. Brilliant that he has a definite plan to follow with a Limerick distillery being part of it.



  • #3284
    [Deleted User]
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  • #3285
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,156 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I went through Gatwick ten days ago and picked up a litre of Glen Scotia Crosshill, a Campbeltown cask strength Scotch. It's powerful stuff, spicy and moderately smoky, one to take slowly.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #3286
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,894 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Killowen's main external source of whiskey is Great Northern, they mention it on the back label of Rum and Raison, which is nice to see. They've also get spirit from elsewhere too. I tasted a Tasmanian cask they sourced recently as well.



  • #3287
    2011abc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭2011abc


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121397485#Comment_121397485

    Grand if on sale but lots of competitors at full whack .



  • #3288
    2011abc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭2011abc


    I reckon Paddy’s Share in Tesco at €35 is the best thirty something whiskey right now .The local ‘Eurospar’ had Blackbush at minimum price €22.10 (?) so I got that also .Hopefully see me through to a luxury pre / Christmas bottle like Redbreast …



  • #3289
    Citizen Six
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭Citizen Six


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121414864#Comment_121414864

    They released it recently in a larger 700ml bottle for the same price. Had it last month.

    Screenshot 2023-10-24 at 09.20.46.png




  • #3290
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 31,046 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Class! The bottle design looks beautiful there.



  • #3291
    Justin10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,270 ✭✭✭Justin10


    Anyone manage to get a bottle of Old Comber today?



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  • #3292
    janiejones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭janiejones


    Tasting a teeling calvados cask, CWS cask 16638. 15 years old, as far as I know.part of the Cooley stock that they brought with them. Drinking it neat at 55% it's not too hot. I'd heard some bad reviews of the single cask releases but one of those guys hated waterford cuvee which is in my top 5 so...

    Nutty sweet nose. Pear, sweeter than apple. Maybe some clove. Butter scotch

    Sweet creamy palate, there is a sharpness from the abv. Vanilla dominates the palate, I didn't get that on the nose.

    Finish is long, peppery (white), sometimes I get a woody taste. Later when I think it's done I get some apple sours

    Trying to get more out of the drink with a tasting sheet, makes me concentrate a bit more


    Calvados seems like a good match for "typical" irish style. Would like to try more



  • #3293
    flended12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭flended12


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121408832#Comment_121408832

    Have it with ice and its 'fine'.

    Do not mix with anything.



  • #3294
    odyssey06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,239 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121426087#Comment_121426087

    Theres a few calvados around alright... Whistler. West Cork. I prefer the Whistler to WC.

    Cognac cask finish popular also. Havent seen an Armagnac yet!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #3295
    DARK-KNIGHT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,281 ✭✭✭✭DARK-KNIGHT


    Hi folks


    Is there an easy way to buy some of the scotches we see in the wild


    So many variables and I rarely see anything apart from bottom shelf mainstream stuff in off licences


    Where and how are you getting your scotch



  • #3296
    janiejones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 193 ✭✭janiejones


    Mostly paying a 20% markup for import and taxes off online off licences. Celtic whiskey shop, Mitchell and sons, few others



  • #3297
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,837 ✭✭✭dmc17


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121434733#Comment_121434733

    Spiritly has a decent selection at reasonable prices



  • #3298
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,125 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121434733#Comment_121434733

    Masters of malt to a northern Irish address. If you have a nordy buddy



  • #3299
    Beanstalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Beanstalk


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121434965#Comment_121434965

    Suprisingly decent prices. There must be a catch surely? maybe delivery price at checkout? fair play if not...



  • #3300
    DeniG2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 147 ✭✭DeniG2


    Without wanting to start up an argument, some people (including myself) have used mybooze.eu with varying levels of success. They have loads of options on scotch but you need to buy a few in order to get value when factoring in delivery. Some people got caught we customs (I haven't myself) so you run that risk, just an option, not suggesting it suits everyone



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  • #3301
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,837 ✭✭✭dmc17


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121436453#Comment_121436453

    No catch. It's free delivery over 120. Have used them a few times. Delivery by DPD and always arrived within 2 days



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