The month started on a high with the ‘Green Spot’ bringing an entourage of depth and flavour to the playing field. And considering we’re midway through the month and St. Patrick’s Day is pretty much around the corner, it only made sense that I too embrace March as the Irish month of malt. Open curtains…
Month: Mar 2018
Review : Green Spot Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey
‘Single Pot stills’ are a novelty known exclusively to be Irish- over eighty percent of whiskey in the 1800s being produced this way. However, by the mid 20th century only a handful were left standing – thanks to a plague of taxes, revolutions, the two world wars and a decade of prohibition. The Scots may…
Malt mania or Blended Bliss – The Malt vs Blend face off!
Conversations with friends do at times broach the subject I fancy most – whisky, and on such moments I do tend to be a bit of a snobbish geek endlessly talking about the spirit or some interesting fact specific to the expression we would be sipping on – I wouldn’t be surprised if some of…
Uisce Beatha | My Whisk'e'y Diaries 