What Whisky/Whiskey are we drinking this month?

Adyx · 11-07-2020 10:07pm

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Got mine as well. Definitely keeping it for a special occasion at least.

mik_da_man · 12-07-2020 1:31pm

Unfortunately couldn't make it down yesterday, will pop down this coming week hopefully.

In fairness the bottles and boxes are a work of art.

Wailin · 12-07-2020 4:36pm

mik_da_man wrote: »

Unfortunately couldn't make it down yesterday, will pop down this coming week hopefully.

In fairness the bottles and boxes are a work of art.

As far as I'm aware, any bottles not collected yesterday will be posted out next week.

mik_da_man · 12-07-2020 10:37pm

Wailin wrote: »

As far as I'm aware, any bottles not collected yesterday will be posted out next week.

Not all of them, you can choose to have it posted or arrange another day to visit and pick it up, which I did.

cloudatlas · 12-07-2020 11:08pm

Has anyone tried this 'Single Malt Irish Whiskey 8 Year Old (That Boutique-y Whisky Company)'

https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/that-boutiquey-whisky-company/single-malt-irish-whiskey-that-boutiquey-whisky-company-whiskey/?srh=1

Cazale · 13-07-2020 9:08pm

Signed up for this one.

Paul John Tasting Friday 31st July at 7:30 p.m. via Zoom

We are delighted to be bring you some Indian whisky from the Paul John distillery in Goa. Global brand ambassador Shilton Almeida will guide us through 6 wonderful whiskies from something fruity to smokey delights. The range is very diverse and it promises to be an excellent event.

Tickets are on sale now via the following link below

https://www.lmulliganwhiskeyshop.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=pjtasting

Wailin · 13-07-2020 9:22pm

Should be interesting.

Cazale · 13-07-2020 9:36pm

Wailin wrote:

Should be interesting.

It's Belfast Whiskey week too so I have introduction to Irish Whiskey on the Monday, pre 70s Irish Whiskey on the Tuesday, Indian whisky on Friday and JJ Corry on the Sunday. Works out at 36 samples. The missus probably throw me out half way through it!

odyssey06 · 13-07-2020 9:41pm

Cazale wrote: »

It's Belfast Whiskey week too so I have introduction to Irish Whiskey on the Monday, pre 70s Irish Whiskey on the Tuesday, Indian whisky on Friday and JJ Corry on the Sunday. Works out at 36 samples. The missus probably throw me out half way through it!

JJ Corry is the saturday at 6 unless you are replaying it. Have signed up for it also.

killbillvol2 · 13-07-2020 9:42pm

Cazale wrote: »

It's Belfast Whiskey week too so I have introduction to Irish Whiskey on the Monday, pre 70s Irish Whiskey on the Tuesday, Indian whisky on Friday and JJ Corry on the Sunday. Works out at 36 samples. The missus probably throw me out half way through it!

Make sure to take your remaining samples with you!

Cazale · 13-07-2020 9:47pm

odyssey06 wrote:

JJ Corry is the saturday at 6 unless you are replaying it. Have signed up for it also.

So it is. Should be a good event.

Cazale · 13-07-2020 9:56pm

The distilled online whiskey festival this Saturday has sold 550 tickets. They are starting to send out the samples by ups today. There are 320 bottles of a special single cask 63.7% Highland Park for sale to attendees of the festival at â‚¬130 a bottle. Any left over will go on general sale from L Mulligans.

odyssey06 · 13-07-2020 10:03pm

Cazale wrote: »

The distilled online whiskey festival this Saturday has sold 550 tickets. They are starting to send out the samples by ups today. There are 320 bottles of a special single cask 63.7% Highland Park for sale to attendees of the festival at â‚¬130 a bottle. Any left over will go on general sale from L Mulligans.

Do the samples include one of the Highland Park cask? Cheers.

Cazale · 13-07-2020 10:05pm

odyssey06 wrote:

Do the samples include one of the Highland Park cask? Cheers.

Yeah.

mik_da_man · 13-07-2020 10:21pm

Signed up for another Belfast whiskey week event today.. I need to stop.. !

But some very interesting ones in this that I'm looking forward to.

2 Bespoke glasses

• 6 x 50ml Exclusive Irish Drams:

Kinsale Spirits — RedEarl Cask Strength, Triple Casked (Bourbon, Sherry & Rioja) Cask Strength @60%

Dublin Liberties Distillery — Distillery Exclusive, 5yr Old, Bourbon Cask, Cask Strength @58.5%

The Connacht Whiskey Company — 14yr Old, Marsala Cask, Cask Strength @45%

Hinch Distillery — 12yr Old, Amarone Cask Finish, Cask Strength @58.73%

Killowen Distillery — Bonded Experimental Series,10yr Old Blend, Virgin Hungarian Oak Cask Finish, Cask Strength @56.6%

IDL — Powers — John’s Lane, Cask Strength @58.5%

The Echlinville Distillery — Dunville’s, 19yr Old Single Malt, Cask, Cask Strength @56%

Dingle Distillery - Pot Still 4th Release, Cask Strength @59.9%

Belfast Whiskey Week — Festival Bottle — Killowen, 10yr Old Single Malt, Single Cask, Rum Cask Finish, Cask Strength @55.6%

odyssey06 · 14-07-2020 7:33am

Confused... thats a long list of whiskies but the intro says 6 x50ml?

Cazale · 14-07-2020 9:06am

odyssey06 wrote:

Confused... thats a long list of whiskies but the intro says 6 x50ml?

Copy and paste job I think. The list of whiskey is the right one.

Cazale · 14-07-2020 10:34am

mik_da_man wrote:

IDL â€” Powers â€” Johnâ€™s Lane, Cask Strength @58.5%

One of my favorites. I've never seen a cask strength anywhere before even as samples. Jealous!

mik_da_man · 14-07-2020 12:02pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Confused... thats a long list of whiskies but the intro says 6 x50ml?

Yeah, I just copied it from the event, looks to be 8 samples and one bottle.

Really looking forward to the John's Lane and Dingle CS ones. Most, if not all are ones that never will be bottled so great to get a chance to try

Diamond Dogs · 16-07-2020 11:34am

Distilled samples arrived.

Has anyone received their samples from the Belfast Whiskey Week crew so far?

odyssey06 · 16-07-2020 11:48am

Diamond Dogs wrote: »

Distilled samples arrived.
Has anyone received their samples from the Belfast Whiskey Week crew so far?

Haven't received either yet... am in Dublin.
My Distilled order hasn't shipped with UPS yet according to tracking.

Edit: Distilled samples arrived Thursday lunchtime but no UPS tracking notification. Luckily I was in.

Hogzy · 16-07-2020 12:07pm

I have received nothing from Belfast Whiskey Week also. I hope to god they dont ship with An Post as every package I have received from them has been a week or two late.

Most of the packages have been whiskey samples too so iv actually missed out on a lot of live tastings.

Diamond Dogs · 16-07-2020 12:39pm

Thanks for the updates. The Distilled samples will be delivered by UPS, so I'm sure you'll receive your order by tomorrow evening.

The Belfast Whiskey Week samples might be delivered by standard post, or not... I haven't seen anything specific on how they plan to send them out. I haven't received anything from them either way yet. We'll see how it goes by next weekend...

The Nal · 16-07-2020 12:59pm

Knappogue 12 year old down to 40 quid in OBs

Teeling Single Pot down to 50

https://www.obrienswine.ie/collections/irish-whiskey

mik_da_man · 16-07-2020 4:04pm

Diamond Dogs wrote: »

The Belfast Whiskey Week samples might be delivered by standard post, or not... I haven't seen anything specific on how they plan to send them out. I haven't received anything from them either way yet. We'll see how it goes by next weekend...

Yeah, I believe they were due to start sending out stuff last week but I haven't heard anything further. Some of the tasting boxes were going to be personally delivered too apparently. So it will be interesting to see how it's handled.
It's getting close!

Diamond Dogs · 16-07-2020 4:33pm

mik_da_man wrote: »

Yeah, I believe they were due to start sending out stuff last week but I haven't heard anything further. Some of the tasting boxes were going to be personally delivered too apparently. So it will be interesting to see how it's handled.
It's getting close!

Thanks a mil for that.

Yeah, it's mainly because the delivery has the potential for understandable delays nowadays that am I wary on the Belfast stuff, particularly if it's not by courier.

Let's see if anyone receives their parcel of whiskies from them in the coming days :-)

beardybrewer · 16-07-2020 6:34pm

I got UPS emails with tracking info and received Distilled yesterday.

Was a bit disappointed as my 4pm masterclass was meant to be M&M. I ordered June 11th so I wouldn't think they ran out. I got O'Connell instead. I really wanted to try M&M after hearing a lot about it on this forum and have never tried it. Can't tell if I should be disappointed until I try them I suppose.

I did email them last night, twice, but haven't heard back from them. Assuming it's too late anyway.

Also, did anyone win the Redbreast lottery?

dball · 16-07-2020 7:18pm

does anyone know how to access this site, its not asking any specific questions and I cant seem to get through with the entry page
https://www.westcorkdistillers.com/
TO WEST CORK DISTILLERS
You have to be of legal drinking age to enter this site

ENTER SITE
By entering this site, you are agreeing to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Statement and by continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to accept our use of cookies.

irish_goat · 16-07-2020 7:22pm

dball wrote: »

does anyone know how to access this site, its not asking any specific questions and I cant seem to get through with the entry page
https://www.westcorkdistillers.com/
TO WEST CORK DISTILLERS
You have to be of legal drinking age to enter this site

ENTER SITE
By entering this site, you are agreeing to our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Statement and by continuing to browse this site you are agreeing to accept our use of cookies.

Not working for me either.

Diamond Dogs · 16-07-2020 7:51pm

beardybrewer wrote: »

I got UPS emails with tracking info and received Distilled yesterday.

Was a bit disappointed as my 4pm masterclass was meant to be M&M. I ordered June 11th so I wouldn't think they ran out. I got O'Connell instead. I really wanted to try M&M after hearing a lot about it on this forum and have never tried it. Can't tell if I should be disappointed until I try them I suppose.

I did email them last night, twice, but haven't heard back from them. Assuming it's too late anyway.

Also, did anyone win the Redbreast lottery?

Sorry to hear about your M&M samples, it was probably in very high demand. You'll enjoy the O'Connell stuff, though :-)

No idea about the Redbreast lottery, but it was not me, haha!

beardybrewer · 16-07-2020 7:55pm

That's what I was hoping to hear. They did just write back and are sending the M&M with apologies and said I could watch it later.

They also said

Good news is we haven't selected the winner for the Redbreast tasting yet, we will do that throughout the day on Saturday.

I didn't realise that tasting would be done at a later time but that makes sense so they can get a bit of fun out of it.

Looking forward to it!

Diamond Dogs · 16-07-2020 8:39pm

beardybrewer wrote: »

That's what I was hoping to hear. They did just write back and are sending the M&M with apologies and said I could watch it later.

They also said

I didn't realise that tasting would be done at a later time but that makes sense so they can get a bit of fun out of it.

Looking forward to it!

Great to hear that! Fair play to L.Mulligan Whiskey for spotting you for the M&M and enjoy the W.D. O'Connell bonus!

Edit: I can see the Redbreast Dreamcask lottery being a running gag throughout Saturday, haha!

BonnieSituation · 16-07-2020 8:45pm

Finally got down to the Father in Law in Sligo this evening. So I'll finally get a taste of the Ratheadon I got him.

He also informs me he kept me some Glendalough 15. Anyone know anything about it?

Cazale · 16-07-2020 9:09pm

beardybrewer wrote:

That's what I was hoping to hear. They did just write back and are sending the M&M with apologies and said I could watch it later.

The O'Connell whiskey is decent stuff so you didn't do too bad out of it!

johnjoeclock · 16-07-2020 9:22pm

Red breast 12 cask strength

actuar90 · 16-07-2020 10:06pm

beardybrewer wrote: »

That's what I was hoping to hear. They did just write back and are sending the M&M with apologies and said I could watch it later.

Did you just email them back? I got the wrong samples too unfortunately.

What did you think of the sample selection overall? I have mixed feelings especially about the redbreast 12 and the fact that there are not any real standout whiskey's apart from the highland park.

Hogzy · 16-07-2020 10:44pm

Just sipping on a dram of The Irishman Founders Reserve. Probably the smoothest whiskey Iv ever tried. Almost too smooth. Lacks a bit of after taste. Definitely interesting and definitely a whiskey you could drink all night!

artanevilla · 16-07-2020 10:46pm

Distilled bits arrived today, via taxi for some reason.

BonnieSituation · 16-07-2020 11:01pm

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Finally got down to the Father in Law in Sligo this evening. So I'll finally get a taste of the Ratheadon I got him.

He also informs me he kept me some Glendalough 15. Anyone know anything about it?

The Ratheadon absolutely blew him away. I have to say it's fantastic. Lovely finish off it.

B1gft · 17-07-2020 8:52am

beardybrewer wrote: »

I got UPS emails with tracking info and received Distilled yesterday.

Also, did anyone win the Redbreast lottery?

Myself and three of my friends got together and did the lottery for the Redbreast. We said we would share the cost of any bottle we won, if we were lucky enough. We got one bottle in the first round and were lucky to get a second bottle in the second round. We are going to drink one bottle (we have opened it, and have drank half, lovely) We intend on keeping the second bottle.

odyssey06 · 17-07-2020 9:34am

B1gft wrote: »

Myself and three of my friends got together and did the lottery for the Redbreast. We said we would share the cost of any bottle we won, if we were lucky enough. We got one bottle in the first round and were lucky to get a second bottle in the second round. We are going to drink one bottle (we have opened it, and have drank half, lovely) We intend on keeping the second bottle.

Congrats on winning the bottle

I think the poster here though is talking about the lottery as part of L Mulligans online Distilled festival. Anyone who bought a ticket to the festival is entered into a draw for a free tasting sample of the RB Dream Cask. We think the draw will take place tomorrow during the festival.
The odds are about 22/550 though!

B1gft · 17-07-2020 5:40pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Congrats on winning the bottle

I think the poster here though is talking about the lottery as part of L Mulligans online Distilled festival. Anyone who bought a ticket to the festival is entered into a draw for a free tasting sample of the RB Dream Cask. We think the draw will take place tomorrow during the festival.
The odds are about 22/550 though!

Sorry about that.

odyssey06 · 17-07-2020 5:43pm

B1gft wrote: »

Sorry about that.

No harm no foul. While we're on the subject of the Red Breast cask - just wondering how do you drink it i.e. straight or in ratio with water?
Cheers.

B1gft · 17-07-2020 5:57pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

No harm no foul. While we're on the subject of the Red Breast cask - just wondering how do you drink it i.e. straight or in ratio with water?
Cheers.

We all tried it without water. The other three then went with water, I did not. They thought the water improved it. I must admit I loved it without, strong but smooth.

Diamond Dogs · 17-07-2020 8:33pm

For the Distilled Festival tomorrow, are those of you taking part planning to pop the Bar 1661 cocktail sample in the fridge tonight?

odyssey06 · 17-07-2020 9:06pm

Diamond Dogs wrote: »

For the Distilled Festival tomorrow, are those of you taking part planning to pop the 1661 cocktail sample in the fridge tonight?

Just did so

It says devil's advocate cocktail on the bottle but googling it there doesn't seem to a definitive recipe for it.
According to food.com it might be fireball whiskey liqueur, spiced rum, apple schnapps and lemon-lime? Didn't get any cinnamon scent though.
Bar 1661 have some interesting pre-mixed cocktails available for pickup or delivery.

Diamond Dogs · 17-07-2020 9:43pm

odyssey06 wrote: »

Just did so

Bar 1661 have some interesting pre-mixed cocktails available for pickup or delivery.

Thanks for the feedback and the tip on Bar 1661, good to know they deliver (for the post-Festival comedown!)

odyssey06 · 17-07-2020 9:47pm

Waterford Ratheadon v Waterford Bannow Island side by side tasting - ordered some sample measures via Drops from the Sky and broke out the Glencairn glasses.

The Ratheadon at first hit me with aggressive spice... tasting notes online suggest white pepper?
Wasn't sure about it, 'tamed' it with some chilled Ballygowan and it opened up for me into a lovely drop.
The Bannow Island is a more straightforward (simpler?) whiskey, hit of spice but not to the same extent as the Ratheadon.
The Ratheadon is the more interesting whiskey for me, lot going on here. Think it's a whiskey you could return to again and again and be surprised by - unusual for such a young whiskey?

Hard to believe that the only difference between the two is the terroir.
Intrigued as to what Waterford come out with next.

* I didn't order the Ballykilcavan based on earlier reviews here

BonnieSituation · 18-07-2020 6:20am

odyssey06 wrote: »

Waterford Ratheadon v Waterford Bannow Island side by side tasting - ordered some sample measures via Drops from the Sky and broke out the Glencairn glasses.

The Ratheadon at first hit me with aggressive spice... tasting notes online suggest white pepper?
Wasn't sure about it, 'tamed' it with some chilled Ballygowan and it opened up for me into a lovely drop.
The Bannow Island is a more straightforward (simpler?) whiskey, hit of spice but not to the same extent as the Ratheadon.
The Ratheadon is the more interesting whiskey for me, lot going on here. Think it's a whiskey you could return to again and again and be surprised by - unusual for such a young whiskey?

Hard to believe that the only difference between the two is the terroir.
Intrigued as to what Waterford come out with next.

* I didn't order the Ballykilcavan based on earlier reviews here

That's good to hear.

Normally I drink my whiskey with water, but for some reason I kept the Ratheadon neat on Friday at each turn. I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I did that, or even added ice to the mix. So yeah, that was quite something from a personal pov!

odyssey06 · 18-07-2020 10:19am

BonnieSituation wrote: »

That's good to hear. Normally I drink my whiskey with water, but for some reason I kept the Ratheadon neat on Friday at each turn. I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I did that, or even added ice to the mix. So yeah, that was quite something from a personal pov!

Each to their own! If you are fortunate enough to have a full bottle I think it would be interesting for you to judge the taste of the whiskey e.g. neat, with 1 small ice cube, with a drop of chilled water, with 50-50 to water etc.
A full bottle of Ratheadon and a mini of one of the other expressions so you can compare them would be the best of both worlds

What Whisky/Whiskey are we drinking this month?

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