By Andrew Graham Rating: C I am an outlier among Millennials in that I frequently have to Google celebrities to find out who they are, so learning that MMA fighter and boxer Conor McGregor is behind Proper No. 12, a new Irish whiskey, didn’t set me up with any particularly elevated expectation for the spirit. Instead, I gave it an ...

Irish Distillers has unveiled Red Spot Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey. Last seen in the mid-1960s, this spicy new member of the Spot Whiskeys range offers whiskey drinkers further choice in the innovative super-premium Irish whiskey category. Crafted from an old recipe handed down by the Mitchell & Son family of wine merchants, the creators of the original Spot Whiskeys ...

By Emma Briones Brian Nation wasn’t interested in working in a distillery. That probably sounds incredible, but Nation himself claim “It happened almost by accident.” Despite stumbling into it, working in whiskey was the best accident that could had happened to him. He joined Irish Distillers after graduating with an engineering degree and has risen to become their  Master Distiller. ...

Ireland’s Tullamore D.E.W. saw overall growth with global sales growing an impressive 9% in 2017, helping to drive a substantial increase in profits for parent company William Grant & Sons. Tullamore D.E.W. is the second largest Irish whiskey globally and the bestselling Irish whiskey in a number of markets globally. Tullamore D.E.W. invested €25m into its distilling operation in 2017 ...

The Kilbeggan Distilling Company has launched its limited-edition release of Kilbeggan Small Batch Rye, the only modern Irish whiskey of record to feature such a high quantity of rye within its mash. Also, and this was a little commented-upon point on other Kilbeggan whiskeys, it is the first whiskey 100% distilled and matured at the Kilbeggan Distillery to be released ...