Irish Whiskey reviews

Well, St. Patrick's Day is long past, and I didn't do my usual set of Irish whiskey reviews (sob). So I'm finally getting to one now (it will be the only one today, unfortunately). Believe me, I'm no…

Found this one on sale, was mildly curious about it. The label doesn't make clear what differentiates it from regular Bushmills Original, other than aging in bourbon casks. Yipee. As if every distiller…

Awhile back I was contacted by a marketing specialist, or "communications expert" named Pam, who asked if I would be interested in sampling and reviewing The Dead Rabbit, a new blended Irish Whiskey.…

Redbreast 12 has always been a christmas favourite of mine - £40 in the sales in the UK ... i just wish the cask strength was as reasonably priced here as in the US (£80-90 here ) NoseDark fruits with…

This special treat happens to be the very first Bushmills bottled by the Scotch Malt Whisky Society exclusively for the Canadian marketplace (it's not even on the SMWS UK site). Distilled on May 22 2002…

This Teeling single malt whiskey was released in 2016 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising (an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter week in April 1916). It was bottled as a…

I am in my 27th year as a member of a debating society. It has had a great influence on my approach to certain things. For instance, when I ran for Parliament I was over-prepared and dispatched my…

OK so this review comes five months late (it was a birthday gift from my parents), but hey better late than never! This is a refresh of the standard Tyrconnell single malt, but now moved up from 40 to…

This Irish single malt whisky is a so-called joing bottling from two Belgian players: Liquid Art & Beacon Spirits (for the latter, it is not their first as they launched the Irish XO last year). The…

Writer's Tears is a blend of pot still and malt whisky from the emerald isle. It's available world wide, as far as I can tell, and is priced fairly competitively here in the UK (around £30). This is…