The Boann distillery was founded in 2015 by the Cooney family in Drogheda, about 40km north of Dublin. In 2017, the distillery was built, but firing could not start until 2019. So they are currently…

Roe & Co has its own distillery and is in full swing, but before their own product is mature, they pay the bill with releases of whiskey that they have purchased elsewhere. In the case of the Cask Str…

Green Spot, Yellow Spot and even Blue Spot you are probably familiar with. Well: here's the Red Spot, a 15-year-old single pot still that matured on a mix of bourbon casks, sherry butts and – drum roll…

The last time I put the Redbreast 2015 on the lips, dates back to 2010. Today the same whiskey is in the glass, but admittedly from a more recent bottling, namely 2019. The nose is a panoply of apples…

Ah, the first time I tasted the Redbreast 12 was in 2009. It is therefore high time to put it on the lips again, I think. And I have a double portion, because both Benny and Pat – two good whisk(e)y…

Kinahan's whiskey was founded in 1779 by Daniel Kinahan, but the brand was lost long ago. With the boom in which the Irish whiskey market finds itself today, it should come as no surprise that the brand…

Eiling Lim is the first independent bottler from Malaysia, but for some she may be more known as Mrs Luc Timmermans (who we can consider a little bit of a living legend in the Belgian whisky world). I…

This is not the first time that the Irish producer Jameson has teamed up with Eight Degrees Brewing. They previously released the Black Ball and Devil's Ladder, but this one is special, because this time…

Fercullen is a brand marketed by the Powerscourt Distillery, founded in 2018, in Wicklow, a few kilometers south of Dublin. While their own production matures gently in the warehouses, they buy whiskey…

Years ago, Greenore (no longer exists) and Bushmills were the first Irish whiskeys I came into contact with. I tasted this 16 Year Old from Bushmills a few times before, but it was a long time ago (the…