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Yellow Spot 12 Year Old Whiskey Review

A Look at Yellow Spot Whiskey

Yellow Spot, along with its younger brother Green Spot, have the enviable title of the last original bonded whiskies of Ireland. What is bonded whiskey I hear you ask? Great question. If you find yourself walking around Dublin, Cork or any one of our great cities you may see “Bonder” or “Whiskey Bonder” written over the doors to some older pubs. These are relics of simpler times for whiskey producers when the bonded market reigned supreme. Distillers would produce whiskey but leave the task of aging and bottling to the whiskey bonders. Essentially, anyone who wanted to produce their own style of whiskey could.

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HYDE Single Grain 1916 No3 Irish Whiskey Review

Whiskey Ireland Hyde Whiskey 1916 Review

Hyde No.3 1916 Bottled at 46% abv

HYDE Single Grain Irish whiskey is made on a traditional ‘Coffey Still’ from pure Corn and Barley grain. It is a triple distilled, pure grain, Irish whiskey from one single distillery location. Made in small batches and not blended in any way. It is matured for over 6 years in flame charred, first fill, ex-bourbon casks from Kentucky in the USA.

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Teeling Irish Single Grain Whiskey Review

Teeling Irish Single Grain Whiskey Review

Single Grain Whiskey from Ireland

Teeling Irish Single Grain Whiskey is a good representation of a changing attitude toward what’s historically been called Irish Whiskey. A movement towards innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit of doing something different when it comes to the Irish Whiskey vertical. True Scottish Single Grain whisky has been around for a long time, so grain whiskey itself isn’t new, but it wasn’t until fairly recently that Irish Grain whiskeys started showing up on the market. Which really isn’t any sort of a surprise because the entire purpose of grain whiskey is to be mixed with single malt to make the blends Irish whiskey is famous for.

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