Irish Whiskey reviews

In July of this year I was in Calgary for a couple of days. We didn’t really have time to do too much shopping, but we did look around a little, and came upon a store with a number of minis and a dis…

This expression was brought to the party by @Astroke, who was kind enough to let me have a 2 oz sample for future review. Kind enough? @Astroke is very generous. He has gifted me with some great…

While Middleton’s modus operandi seems to bank on the historical names of Jameson & Power’s I would say that it’s had the most success with the brands It acquired from wine & spirit merchants. Both…

Every year Manny and I try to put an odd one out in our series. In the Animal Series it was the French Armorik single malt, in the Galaxy Series the Invergordon single grain, in the Antarctica Series the…

This review has more blab but feel free to skip ahead.The whisky formerly know as "Pure Pot Still" has had a tumultuous history. It was created as a middle finger to the government, who imposed a malt…

The next couple of reviews are based around an exploration of Irish single pot still whiskey. It's a style I have been drawn to of late and the historical elements are just as fascinating as the whisky…

This review is from a sample provided by @Astroke via @Nozinan. The bottle was 1/4 full when the sample was poured. I sampled this from a copita.From what the internet tells me, The Tyrconnell is pro…

Review is from a 50ml sample kindly provided by @RianC (who's username I type so often it now comes up on the predictive text on my phone!).I drank this about a month ago made some notes and just didn't…

There are exceptions to every rule and sometimes our intuitions are wrong. I rarely purchase whiskies bottled at 40% abv, since many tend to be mixers or "entry-level" offerings that don't interest me…

This one has been in my cabinet for a few years now, thankfully I bought it just before the LCBO boosted the price up to the current $80. I bring this up because I feel like the place it held in my…