What Whisky/Whiskey are we drinking this month?

I missed out on the little sample pack they sent out for tonight. I'll try to watch the launch tonight if the missus lets me!

Cazale wrote:

The ballot for this years Dream Cask is live for the next week. I've entered it for the craic. Anyone else going to give it a go?

This finishes in 24 hours. 921 bottles available. Anybody else try get one?

From L Mulligans

Spey at home take 2. Thursday 11th June 7:30 p.m.
 
There have been lots of requests to showcase some more whisky from Speyside, so here we go! We will be sampling 6 completely different whiskeys compared to our first Speyside tasting. These will include whiskies from Glenfarclas , Glenlivet, Cardhu, Ben Riach, Dufftown and a different version of Tamnavulin.  Tickets for this are on sale this evening at 7 p.m.

Powers with Derek King. Friday 19th June 7:30 p.m.
 
Brand ambassador Derek King will be joining us for an evening of Powers whiskey. We will start off with a Powers Old Fashioned then go through the range of Powers whiskey and finish up with the very last of The L Mulligan Powers Single Cask that sold out 2 years ago, We’ve opened our own vault to bring this whiskey out for one last hurrah! Tickets for this are on sale this evening at 7 p.m

Distilled – An online whiskey festival. Saturday 18th July 3 p.m. till 8 p.m.
 
We are thrilled to announce our online whiskey festival, Distilled. It promises to be a great day in! With whiskey seminars and masterclasses galore there is plenty to do and drink! We will also have an exclusive bottling just for attendees of the show. More details will be announced over the coming days so keep an eye out!

cloudatlas wrote: »

Proper 12 is a 4 year old Bushmills.

Yes, but even if you put the Bushmills sales and Proper 12 sales together, they are outsold 8 to 1 by Jameson?
Jameson sells twice as much Irish whiskey as all the other brands put together, 8 million from a total of 12 million.

odyssey06 wrote:

Really enjoyed the first Speyside tasting so signed up for round 2. Thursday night though, hmm

odyssey06 wrote:

Skipped the Powers tasting - already attended a Powers tasting this year with Derek. Would really recommend it, hopefully they will send out some Pot Still Signature Release for ye to appreciate

I missed the first speyside with work so I'm looking forward to it. Think it's on Thursday because they have the 2nd Japanese one on the Thursday. Got the Powers one even though I have a bottle of John Lane and Three Swallows as I'm a big fan of the brand so it'll be good to listen to the talk.

cloudatlas wrote: »

Proper 12 is a 4 year old Bushmills.

I think odyssey06 understands that. The comment still makes no sense.
Bushmills is 3rd. Proper12 is 4th.
Combined they are still 3rd.


Notwithstanding, combining them is ridiculous. Proper12 isn't owned by Bushmills. Separate company with separate budgets and marketing. The fact it's made by Bushmills is irrelevant. How many brands are produced by the IDL factory in Midleton?
Most whiskey brands are selling spirit distilled by somebody else, especially those set up only a few years

Regardless of anything else, to get to 200k+ cases in 18 months is a achievement.

cloudatlas wrote: »

Yes I carelessly skim read the article and the picture of Conor Mcgregor mislead me so everyone can stop phoning in the mistake, I got it I made an error.

Sorry man, did mean to sound like I was having a go.
Haven't had my whiskey this morning

No dream cask for me anyway

No joy either.

odyssey06 wrote: »

Really enjoyed the first Speyside tasting so signed up for round 2.
Thursday night though, hmm

I signed up too after hearing about it here. The Powers session sold out quickly but the Speyside II is still going. Thurs night is perfect for me. Looking forward to it!

Hogzy wrote: »

No dream cask for me anyway

I'm one of the lucky ones.

Let's see how long before they ship.

Hogzy wrote:

Got my other half to enter the ballot too and she hasnt received any email back from them saying whether she won or not. Its not in her junk folder either.

She's keeping it for herself!

I got one. Cant believe my luck. I got 1 last year as well. So chuffed. I wish I had a DC1 to complete the collection....

Cazale wrote:

Tickets on sale now to join Teeling Master Distiller, Alex Chasko, on June 18th (7pm, Dublin Time) for a live virtual tasting of 5 Rare Dublin Distilled Teeling Whiskeys in celebration of our distillery’s 5th Birthday. Tickets:

No brainer this one. That means in the next two weeks I'm now doing:

L Mulligans Japanese tasting
Talk Drams Grace O'Malley tasting
L Mulligans Speyside tasting
Teelings 5th Birthday tasting
L Mulligans Powers tasting

Time to buy the missus another bottle of gin I think.

it mentions it on checkout:
join Teeling Master Distiller, Alex Chasko, for a live virtual tasting in celebration of our distillery’s 5th Birthday. Join us for the unique chance to taste 5 different whiskeys that have been fully distilled in the Teeling Distillery, including the rare liquid elements of our Single Pot Still Whiskey, a component of our future 100% Dublin distilled Single Malt & a sneak peak of an unreleased Peated Single Malt.

There are only a limited amount of tickets available so please purchase your tickets ASAP. T&Cs apply.

Apollinaris wrote: »

It didn’t take long for them to appear online for sale. More than double the original price. Bloody flippers.

Where did you see them for sale?

Yeah decided to sign up for it too.
Looking forward to it.

Cazale wrote: »

Series 3 has just been released and it's back to a sherry finish. 11 years in bourbon and then finished for three years in Pedro Ximénez casks at 49.5%. Might try get a sample to compare all three together.

This is they sherry that was in the casks beforehand. Be interesting to try a sample side by side.

Apollinaris wrote: »

https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/158564/redbreast-28-year-old

Madness, they haven't even shipped them out yet.

It's €1340 here .. https://www.whiskymall.dk/vare/redbreast-28-year-old--dream-cask-ruby-port-edition

Boann Distillery are having a free online tasting night.

Fri 26th of June at 8PM we will be hosting an online tasting of our 3 cask finish series whiskeys

We are offering 50 sample packs for people to sip along on the night.

All you need to do is sign up here: https://t.co/AQ3n6ZNeTP

ROI & UK addresses only ðŸ¥႒

odyssey06 wrote: »

I filled out the signup form, fingers crossed comes through.
As a fan of Calvados an intrigued how the cask finish will influence the flavour of the whiskey.

Tried filling it out and its saying that the owner of the form is no longer receiving responses

Hogzy wrote:

Tried filling it out and its saying that the owner of the form is no longer receiving responses

UPDATE: we have hit the 50 applications mark and submissions are now CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who applied, you’ll all receive an email tomorrow confirming your place and samples will be sent out next week ðŸ¥႒

Hogzy wrote: »

Where are you seeing that?

I'm guessing it was sent to the first 50 who applied. I filled out the form but didn't get an email.

Cazale wrote: »

It's on their Twitter. If you completed the form successfully you'll get the whiskey.

I completed the form but when I clicked submit it went through, but then refreshed to say that the form was no longer being responded too. Im either the last person to get it or the 51st person lol. Well see what happens I guess but im not holding out much hope.