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We also offer private tours and tasting experiences. Check out our Distillery Tours page for more info. You must be of legal drinking age to enter this website. This website uses cookies. You have left the site for your region. To go back, click here. This means that it rose to almost percent between and ! That is mindboggling! But despite this, however, there are a lot of falsehoods that are bandied about in some quarters about Irish whiskey.
The stories — or shall we say myths — are discussed by drinkers as well as bartenders, which is quite worrisome. So, here are some of the biggest myths which were dispelled by an Irishman who was the International Bartender of the Year in at the Tales of the Cocktail conference. This myth is the most popular of them all. This myth was brought into existence due to the fact that Jameson Irish whiskey is produced in the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland while Bushmills Irish whiskey is produced in Protestant-dominated Northern Ireland.
But there is no truth to this; everything is a matter of geography. Moreover, since there are only a few distilleries in Ireland, these whiskey giants trade casks. This means that your Jameson may contain some Bushmills-made whiskey and vice versa. And to crown it all, the current master distiller at Bushmills is a Catholic and the founder of the Jameson brand is Scottish i. It may be true that a lot of Irish whiskeys are ordered as shots around the bars in almost every city of the world, they also work exceptionally well in a variety of cocktails.
Most Irish whiskeys can be sipped neat or on the rocks. The only advantage scotch has over Irish whiskey lies in the number of selection of blends and single malts in the United States which dwarfs the number of Irish whiskeys. Additionally, there are almost distilleries in Scotland compared to the handful that thrives in the Republic of Ireland. But the terrain is changing as many new brands are popping up, launching and building their own distilleries.
Indeed, triple distillation is the distinguishing element of the Irish style of whiskey production. However, it is not all Irish whiskey that undergoes triple distillation. During that period, the United States was flooded with Irish whiskey produced from over Irish distilleries on the Emerald Isle.
At its peak, Irish whiskey was the biggest in America. But the industry became decimated, no thanks to trade wars with Britain as well as Prohibition in the United States, and two World Wars. But things have changed exceptionally over the last twenty years. Irish whiskey is back and better! This is far from the truth; not even before Beam Global purchased Cooley, which is the home of Connemara and Tyrconnel.
This idea was birthed as a result of the way Americans were introduced to the alcoholic beverage, i. Many American college students usually drink a shot of Jameson whiskey with cheap longneck beer. But then, excellent sipping whiskeys — such as Connemara and Redbreast — have been around for a pretty long time. Each of these sipping whiskeys come with premium expressions in the Bushmills and Jameson line. Many whiskeys out there can be taken on the rocks or even neat, depending on the preference of the drinker.
Additionally, Irish whiskeys mix well with other drinks and so make a wide variety of tasty cocktails. One can attribute this statement to the domination of the 1 best-selling Irish whiskey from Jameson and Sons Distilleries. But nowadays, there is a wide range of Irish whiskeys, each of which features different profiles. Irish single malts like Tyrconnell and Knappogue Castle offer whiskeys that have been finished in sherry casks — or other — wine casks.
During the early part of the 19th century, double-distillation, as well as triple-distillation, was performd in Ireland.
Although triple-distillation in pot stills are still incredibly popular, there are several examples of double-distilled whiskeys that are similar to those obtained from Scotland. When smoke is perceived in whiskey, in most cases, it has to do with the way malted barley is dried over a fire that is fueled by peat or other aromatic substances.
However, this practice is no longer common when producing whiskey in Ireland. But a few peated examples — such as Connemara, etc. Casa Cuervo as well as Pernod Ricard respectively. Yes, it is. Several Irish whiskeys out there showcase an age statement which ideally, represents the youngest whiskey in the blend. By coincidence, the house and stables of Bushmills Inn date back to , the very year when the licence was granted to produce Bushmills Whiskey!
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