What Is Your Irish Whiskey This Weekend?

Just bought a Jameson 18 with a friend of mine,were gonna take care of it this week end!Cheers!!

Jameson Select Reserve Small Batch - my favourite Irish Whiskey of the last year, even more than the Redbreast Cask Strength that I managed to grab a little bit of.

Tyrconnell 10 Madeira Finish

@talexander - Greetings! I plan to enjoy my new fave - Bushmills 21 Year Old and to try for the first time, a gift from @Victor, the Redbreast 12 Year Old Cask Strength.

Planned on buying a Jameson 12 Yo, but the last bottle was gone before I had the chance to grab it. Guess i'll stick with the standard expression.

I've got a bottle of Slieve Foy 8 Yr. old. I am going to to a tasting of Cooley products tonight though, so we'll see if any come home with me.

I'm with Dramlette (27 years, actually!): I will have the Bushmills 21, Redbreast 12 Cask Strength, and probably work in some Connemara Cask Strength as well. Friday we'll probably catch a Jameson tasting in Baltimore with my sister as well.

Do the Irish Catholics still hate you if you drink that Protestant Bushmills? Some do, I expect.

I am having the Magilligan Pure Pot Still, followed by the Cooley 10 Year Old 2000 from A.D. Rattray. Then the Bushmills 21 Year Old (and will publish another rambling on YouTube of Saturday) and finish of the festivities with the Redbreast 12 Year Old Cask Strength. Happy St Paddy!

@maltymatt, I have a bottle of Jameson 18, much more full bodied than the standard Jameson (as you might expect). @Dramlette and @Victor: wow 27 years. What's your secret? (oh, I think I can guess, probably shared hobbies!) I'll be thinking of you both while I have my younger Bushmills. Wondering if I should crack open my Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve instead but I think I'll save that for a few more years.

@Victor well, as an Irish Catholic from a long line of Irish Republicans… I have never and probably never will drink a Bushmills product. Even though both Bushmills and Jameson are owned by foreign companies now, I still don't. But no, I don't HATE others for drinking it. Enjoy your Bushmills. I am plenty satisfied with Jameson and the rest of the selection from MIddleton and Cooley.

@talexander I say crack the Rarest Vintage Reserve. That is the easiest drinking, smoothest whisk(e)y I have ever sampled. Now, smooth and easy aren't usually what I am looking for, but it's still a treat.

Even though it's not anything super special, having been to the distillery and the fact that before I discovered scotch, it was the first whisky that I enjoyed drinking. Bushmills - if nothing else it has sentimental value and brings back great memories of my first trip to Ireland.

I've a little Connemara Peated Cask Strength that I transfered to a 100ml. glass flask: It's not the current bottling though which is sadly lacking in every dept. and outrageously priced. I consider Au.$145 a bit over the top - Early last year is was Au.$89.95. That's some price hike!

Redbreast 15yo. One of my absolute favourites.

Powers John Lane 12yo and the Knappogue 1995 (wonderful red berries nose).

Sadly none....just Guinness Extra. I ran out of Bushmill's and I don't want to buy another bottle for a bit.

I've never really tried Irish Whiskey, so this St. Patty's day, I decided to try my first bottle. I was looking for the Redbreast 12, but the local specialty retailer I frequent was out of that, so I settled on the Jameson 12 Special Reserve.

@MacBaker62 I'm a big fan of the Jameson 12. I'm sure you'll like it.

My Irish whiskey for the weekend is Redbreast 12, which was a Christmas present from my lovely lady.

I've changed my mind for today - I'll be trying the Jameson Rarest Vintage Reserve rather than the Bushmills 16!

Redbreast 12 with a Guiness chaser.

Red Breast 12. One of my favorite whiskies!

If you only own ONE Irish, it's Redbreast 12 (I have Redbreast 15, but not as smooth and tasty as the 12). I'm also sipping a favorite sherried Jameson Special Reserve 12, Michael Collins Single Malt, Tyconnell Single Malt, Millars 8-Yr, Knoppogue Castle 1995, and a bit of Bushmills Single Malt 10-Yr and Black Bush. I also wish I had a bottled of John L. Sullivan. These are all do wonderfully interesting and different ... and affordable as well. I usually try many bottles when I am sipping ! :)

@AboutChoice, good to see you back in action!

@AboutChoice -- I disagree on the Redbreast 12. It has a wonderful nose but I find it to be just average in taste.

Yesterday, my wife and I and a friend of ours were at a local pub where we managed to find a table amongst the throngs of university students who had gotten an early start to their pub crawling. While thr Irish whisky list did not offer anything that I hadn't tried before (a situation that will be resolved in two weeks time when the pub will host a tasting that I'm going to, with Locke's 8 yo, Green Spot, and Midleton Very Rare), I did have three Guiness that I especially enjoyed as I really noticed a nice chocolate note that I hadn't picked up on before. Not sure if it was the Alexander Keith's IPA that preceded those pints, or just a very fresh keg. An Ardbeg 10 and Laphroaig QC rounded out my pub visit.

At home, I finally got to celebrating the day by cracking open a bottle of Redbreast 12 that was a Christmas gift from my dad and his wife. It is wonderful stuff! The evening was concluded with the penultimate dram of Glen Breton 10 (the first full sized bottle of whisky that was added to my cabinet). I'll increase the Irish content of this weekend with a Bushmills Black Bush this evening.

@Pudge72, sounds like a great night! Where is the tasting?

@michaelschout You we're quite right! For my first Irish Whiskey experience, the Jameson 12 was a great place to start!

@talexander...The Coates of Arms at Talbot & Albert Streets in London, ON...on March 29th, if you're in the area.

@Pudge72 - thanks! Don't think I can make it, unfortunately!

@talexander...this pub does seem to hold a whisky tasting on a monthly basis (though I'm not sure about the summer months). This will be the first one that I'm attending. My understanding is that they are generally $45 and include a pint of beer of your choice, three higher quality/less common whiskies, an appetizer, and an entree. I'm excited for next week! :)