Review: The Quiet Man Traditional Irish Whiskey
The Quiet Man Traditional Irish Whiskey was launched June 2015 along with The Quiet Man 8 Year Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey. The Quiet Man, or An Fear Ciuin in Gaelic, is named to honor brand founder Ciaran Mulgrew’s father, who spent 50 years as a barman in the pubs of Belfast. A bartender sees a lot and hears a lot of stories but his father told no tales. It was The Barman’s Code. The whiskey is currently sourced, and said to have a high malt component, while their own distilled whiskey matures. It is triple distilled and matured in first fill American oak bourbon casks for 4 years. The Quiet Man is blended and bottled in Derry Ireland. Read more 
Review: Kilbrin Irish Whiskey
Kilbrin Irish Whiskey is a private label brand owned and produced by Quality Spirits International. It is imported by Saranty Imports. The brand was established in 2017. Kilbrin Irish Whiskey, and Kilbrin Single Malt 10 Year Old Irish Whiskey are sold at Total Wine and More stores. The name was inspired by the lore of treasure hidden in the parish of Kilbrin. KIlbrin is triple distilled, and made by blending rich malt whiskey, produced from malted barley, with the finest grain whiskey in Ireland. The whiskey is sourced from unknown distilleries, and no age statement appear on the bottle. Read more
Review: Kavanagh Finest Irish Whiskey
Kavanagh Finest Irish Whiskey is a blended Irish whiskey. Our contacts believe the whiskey is distilled and sourced from Kilbeggan Distillery. It is aged for 4 years in ex-bourbon barrels and is currently sold at Total Wine and More stores. If you are not familiar with Total Wine and More, they currently have over 160 stores in 23 states, with more on the way. Total Wine and More also sells Kavanagh Single Grain Irish Whiskey, Kavanagh Single Malt Irish Whiskey, and Kavanagh Irish Cream Liqueur. Read more
Review: Glendalough Double Barrel Irish Whiskey
Glendalough Double Barrel Irish Whiskey is a single grain whiskey made from corn and malted barley. The label honors and pictures St. Kevin who is said to have stood still with his arms stretched while a blackbird built its nest, laid eggs, and stood silent until those eggs hatched. The Glendalough Distillery was built by a group of five friends from Wicklow and Dublin Ireland. Currently the whiskey is sourced while their own crafted whiskey matures. The whiskey they currently source has been matured for three years in American oak bourbon barrels. Once received it is further matured for six months in 500 liter Oloroso sherry barrels sourced from the small town of Montilla Spain in once used European oak barrels to mature PX, Pedro Ximenez, grapes for two years. These barrels were build by coopers, from European oak from trees grown in forest in Northern Spain. Read more
Review: The Tyrconnell Irish Whiskey
The Tyrconnell Irish Whiskey is named for the horse who won the National Produce Stakes Horse Race in 1876. Local Distiller A.A. Watts witnessed the race and created a limited edition small batch whiskey to honor the winning horse. Watt intended to make The Tyrconnell just once, but it soon became his most popular whiskey. Before Prohibition The Tyrconnell was claimed to be the best selling Irish Whiskey. Because of Prohibition, The Watts Distillery closed in 1925. Today the brand is maintained by the Kilbeggan Distilling Company. It is double distilled from malted barley in a pot still at the Cooley Distillery. No age statement is given on the bottle or their website. Read more
Review: Writers Tears Copper Pot Irish Whiskey
Writers Tears Copper Pot Irish Whiskey was launched in 2009 by the husband and wife team of Bernard and Rosemary Walsh. Some may know this as Writers Tears, or Writers Tears Original Irish Whiskey. It is made from a blend of single malt and pure pot still whiskey that is triple distilled and aged in American bourbon barrels. I believe the blend is 60% pure pot still and 40% single malt, but some sites have described the blend to be 40% pot still and 60% single malt. Two things for sure, no grain whiskey is used, and the whiskey is sourced from another distillery. Writers Tears is named for the Irish writers of the 19th and early 20th century who imbibed in Irish whiskey as a cure for writers block. During that period Ireland was the worlds leading producer of whiskey and also home to some of the worlds best writers including George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats, and Samuel Beckett. Read more
Review: Lambay Small Batch Blend Irish Whiskey
Lambay Small Batch Blend Irish Whiskey was released early 2018. Lambay takes its name from the Lambay Island located three miles off the coast of Dublin. Lambay Island is a wildlife sanctuary owned by the Baring family since 1904. This island is known for the puffins who make the island their home. I guess that explains the tuxedo waring puffin on the bottles label. Lambay whiskey is a joint venture between the Baring family which owns the island and the Camus family which supplies the cognac casks. Cognac has been produced by five generations of the Camus family since 1863. Camus is the fifth biggest producer of cognac, and the largest independent producer. Alexander Baring and Cyril Camus also bottle a single malt Irish whiskey. Lambay Small batch whiskey is distilled at West Cork Distillers from malted and grain whiskey. The whiskey is non-chill filtered, matured for a minimum four years in first fill bourbon barrels, and finished in Cognac casks. Read more
Review: Kilbeggan Single Grain Irish Whiskey
Kilbeggan Single Grain Irish Whiskey was released July 2017. Single grain Irish whiskey hints at an Irish whiskey made from a single grain, but the single grain designation refers to whiskey made in a single location using malted barley and at least one other ingredient. Kilbeggan Single Grain Irish Whiskey is made from a mash bill of 94% meticulously sourced corn, and 6% malted barley. It is double distilled in a copper-lined still at the Cooley Distillery. Kilbeggan Single Grain is first aged in ex-bourbon barrels, and then finished in a marriage of ex-bourbon barrels and fortified wine barrels. Read more
Review: Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey
Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey was released in the US March 2015. That is the same year Jack and Stephen Teeling opened the Teeling Whiskey Distillery. This was the first new distillery built in Dublin in over 125 years. Currently they source their whiskey from other distilleries while their own produced whiskey ages. The Teeling family has been crafting whiskey for over 230 years, since Walter Teeling opened his distillery in 1782. Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey is made from 95% corn and 5% barley. The spirit is column distilled and aged for five years in red wine barrels first used to mature cabernet sauvignon in Napa Valley California. Read more
Review: Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey
Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey is produced at the Kilbeggan Distillery in County West Meath. Matthias McManus established Kilbeggan’s first distillery on the banks of the River Brosna in 1757. When production at the Kilbeggan Distillery was ceased in 1953, the town came together to save the whiskey that built the town. The town continued paying the annual distillery fee with the hope that someday it would reopen. In 1983 the town purchased the distillery and then rebuilt the shuttered distillery with the help of skilled local tradesmen who provided their service, free of charge. John Teeling who had a vision to rescue some of the famous old Irish whiskey brands and distilleries that had been mothballed during the previous 50 years acquired the distillery, and rebuilt the brand. The distillery and Kilbeggan brand were later sold to Beam in 2011 for $95 million. Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey is double distilled and aged in bourbon barrels for a minimum of four years. Read more