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The Irishman Single Malt Irish Whiskey - Triple Distilled from 100% Barley & Oak Cask Aged - 40% Alcohol Volume - 70cl (0.7 Litre) Bottle

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Therefore, as capacities expanded, Ireland became the largest producer of spirits in the United Kingdom; and Dublin, then the largest market for spirits in Ireland, emerged as a major distilling centre. At its peak Bow Street was the second largest distillery in Ireland and one of the largest in the World, with an output of one million gallons per annum. The Irishman offers delicious fruits, vanilla, and almond flavors wrapped in a perfectly sweet, exceptionally smooth, 80-proof whiskey. Another factor for the decline of Irish whisky was because of the British market and in 1922 the British Empire introduced tariff barriers when the Ireland become independent. There is an amazing list of distilleries and by looking through these page you start to realise how massive the whisky industry is to the world markets.

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Aged and matured in a combination of ex-bourbon and ex-sherry casks, Green Spot serves up dense aromas of vanilla and toffee along with a wonderful, fruit-forward taste. After the distillery was closed, some of its buildings were purchased and incorporated into the Guinness Brewery. Distilled at the Midleton site from malted and unmalted barley, it’s then matured in a combination of American oak bourbon barrels and Spanish oak Oloroso sherry butts. So did John Teeling, who in the late 1980s, after years of planning and work, ended Irish Distillers' longtime monopoly when he launched Cooley Distillery. The scale of this illicit activity was such that one surveyor estimated that duty was paid on only 2% of the spirit consumed in the northwestern provinces of Ulster and Connaught, [20] while Aeneas Coffey (an excise officer at the time, and later inventor of the Coffey Still) estimated that there were over 800 illicit stills in operation in Inishowen, County Donegal alone.Redbreast 12 Year Old Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey, which is crafted at Midleton Distillery by Irish Distillers – the producer of some of the world’s most enjoyed whiskeys – has taken home the World Whisky Trophy at the prestigious International Wine and Spirit Competition, one of the world’s most influential spirits competitions, now in it’s 50th year.

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Crafted at Cooley Distillery, Connemara’s flagship single malt is among the few peated Irish whiskeys on the market. The Irish are widely credited as being the first to distil whiskey, though this is strictly contested by the Scots. If true, this would mark an interesting turning point in the rise and fall of the whiskey industries in the respective countries. It wasn't that the distillers were Luddites, afraid of change; their distilleries were among the most advanced in the world.Production reached a nadir at about 400,000–500,000 cases per annum during the consolidation period, down from a peak of 12million cases around 1900. Irish whiskey needs to be distilled in the country of Ireland from a mash of malt and cereal grains. For Christmas last year, the Irish specialists unveiled a Whiskey Tree, littered with the iconic green bottles and standing just over three feet tall.

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