Ireland
- Local Products - Beverages
- Whiskey
According
to Irish folk stories whiskey was invented by St.Patrick however
more likely is that monks brought the recipe back from the Middle
East with them in the 6th century, which is roughly when the distillation
of Irish whiskey started.
Traditional Irish whiskies are made of a blend of malt and barley
grain, which is dried in closed kilns, unlike Scotch Whisky. The
"wort" is then triple distilled through both column and
pot stills and aged for a minimun of three years in oak casks. Irish
Whiskey is smoother than Scotch Whiskey and does not have the peaty
flavour of Scotch.
Irish whiskey can be served neat or on the rocks, but it is also
the main ingredient for popular cocktails and drink such as Irish
Coffee and Bailey's Whisky Cream.
Irish Whiskey Visitors Centres
Old Jameson
Distillery
Bow Street Distillery
Smithfield
Dublin 7
Tel: + 353 1 807 2355
Fax: + 353 1 807 2369
Website: Old
Jameson
Old Midleton Distillery
Midleton
County Cork
Tel: + 353 21 461 3594
Fax: + 353 21 461 3642
Locke's Distillery
Museum
Kilbeggan
County Westmeath
Tel: + 353 506 32 134
Fax: + 353 506 32 201
Website: Lockes
Distillery Museum
Useful links
Bushmills
Tullamore
Dew
Irish Whisky Tours
Irish
Whisky Tours
Whiskey
Cream Liquors
Baileys
Useful
Links
Classic
Whiskey.Com
Whiskey
Web.Com
Irish
Distilleries
