By Emma Briones Rating: B- In July 2015, Quintessential Brands launched a new Irish whiskey: The Dublin Liberties Oak Devil. The whiskey takes its name from the past of The Liberties area in Dublin, where the company acquired an urban distillery project, then known as the Dublin Whiskey Company. In the 1700s, The Liberties was known as “Hell” due to ...

Pearse Lyons Distillery at St. James in the Liberties, Dublin’s second boutique Irish Whiskey experience, is due to open its doors to the public in September. Acquired in 2013 by Pearse and Deirdre Lyons, the property had many previous incarnations, including a lighting shop. Pearse, Dublin born, has strong family connections to The Liberties and St. James Church, which compelled ...

Stock Spirits Group has purchased a one-quarter interest in Quintessential Brands, the parent company of Dublin Liberties Distillery (DLD), amounting to an €18.3m investment in the project. The distillery began life as the Dublin Whiskey Company (DWC), the first project to start an urban distillery in Dublin. Two other projects were later announced, that of Teeling Whiskey Company and the ...

By Richard Thomas Samuel Adams Summer Ale and Basil Hayden Bourbon Here are two drinks that compliment and pair together very well. At 80 proof, Basil Hayden is one of the lightest premium bourbons. As an American Pale Wheat Ale, Sam Adams Summer Ale is also on the light side of its category. Basil Hayden comes from Beam’s high rye ...

By Richard Thomas   Although Walsh Whiskey has been around for quite a while with its sourced brands The Irishman and Writer’s Tears, it was only a little over a year ago that they opened their County Carlow distillery to great fanfare. The plans of Bernard and Rosemary Walsh for the plant are ambitious, to say the least. Not only ...