By Richard Thomas When Beam Global (now Beam Suntory) bought the Cooley Distillery in 2012, the effect it had in the Irish Whiskey market was akin to what would happen if a major international drinks corporation bought Indiana’s MGP, decided it wanted to get into the American Whiskey market in a big way and moved to keep all the distillery’s ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: B+ West Cork Distillery was founded in 2003 by three lifelong friends; Denis McCarthy, Ger McCarthy and John O’Connell in Union Hall, West Cork, Ireland. Ger and Denis McCarthy had long histories as deep sea trawler men and O’Connell was a scientist focusing on research and development for the food and beverage industries. Inspired by ...

How The Rise Of American And World Malts Have Changed The Fundamentals By Richard Thomas Until the advent of the World Whisk(e)y Boom, malt whisky has been a pretty stable category. The overwhelming majority of malts were made either in Scotland or in countries pursuing their own variants of the Scottish model (most notably Japan), a fact best signified by ...

Walsh Whiskey Distillery has released two, new, very limited edition, super-premium expressions from The Irishman range. Both were finished in handpicked Marsala wine ‘hogshead’ casks from the Florio winery in Sicily which is owned by Walsh Whiskey Distillery’s strategic partner Illva Saronno. Hogshead casks are larger than standard whiskey casks, however with evaporation accounting for the ‘Angel’s Share’, just 2,970 ...

By Randall H. Borkus Rating: C+ West Cork Distillery was founded in Union Hall in 2003 by three lifelong friends; Denis McCarthy, Ger McCarthy and John O’Connell , West Cork, Ireland. Ger and Denis McCarthy had long histories as deep sea trawler men and O’Connell was a research and development scientist the food and beverage industry. Inspired by West Cork’s ...