Irish Whiskey reviews

Some three years ago I tried my first Connemara Distillers Edition. Contrary to most releases of this peaty Irish, this one is bottle not at 40% but at 43%. That gives it just a tad more body in my…

You probably noticed: this whiskey was distilled in 1992 and bottled in May 2019, so it should be 27 years old. Yet the label says 11 Year Old. How? Well, Irish whiskey can only be termed such if it…

The first 500 casks of this start up distillery went to aficionados, investors, clubs and collectors and this is one of those, bottled by the club Potstill Austria. It was labeled Briana’s Choice, but…

Early 2019 this 17 year old Irish whiskey – of which the distillery is kept secret – was bottled by German indie Rold Kaspar for the Hotel Essener Hof in Essen, Germany. Bottler and hotel cooperate often…

I have some cool friends who often send me samples and it sometimes happens that I do not remember if I already have it in my liquid library (at the time of writing some 160 samples are waiting on me)…

A few months ago I tried the Batch 2, Batch 3 and new ‘Unbatched’ Teeling Pot Still at a tasting with the Master Distiller Alex Chasko near Brussels. I found them to be interesting, but not particularly…

Just like the Teeling Barleywine this Plantation Rum is also part of the Small Batch Collaboration series. No less than 12.000 bottles were released. We know Plantation as quite a tropical rum, so I…

The Teeling boys like to experiment with all kinds of casks. Take this Barleywine for example, a small batch release in collaboration with Galway Bay Brewery. First a maturation of about 6 years on…

Make no mistake, this West Cork is not own product, but sourced from other distilleries. Their own spirit is not yet mature. Moreover this is a blended Irish whiskey, so it contains both single malt and…

West Cork does not yet have own production in the market – they have only just started so their own distillate is still maturing – yet they do have whiskey on the market. Sourced whiskey, obviously. This…