Recent Irish Whiskey Articles
World's First Chestnut Cask Whiskey by Midleton Very Rare
The World's First Chestnut Cask Whiskey: Inside Midleton Very Rare's Irish Chestnut Edition For as long as whiskey has been made, wood has been its silent architect. Oak — American white oak, European sessile oak, Quercus alba, Quercus petraea — has ruled the barrel house without serious challenge
From Portland Brewer to Irish Whiskey Master Distiller
From Portland Brew Tanks to Dublin Pot Stills: The Making of Alex Chasko The story of how Dublin got its whiskey back is, at its core, a story about curiosity — the kind that doesn't stop at the surface of a pint glass. Long before Alex Chasko was shaping the profile of modern Irish single malts a
Teeling Irish Whiskey Gets a Venezuelan Rum Cask Finish
When Dublin Meets the Aragua Valley: Teeling and Santa Teresa's Landmark Cask Swap Cross-category collaborations in the spirits world have become something of a familiar headline, but most of them amount to a one-way transfer — one producer ships empty barrels, the other fills them, and the result
Bushmills and Malbon Golf Blend Whiskey with Course Culture
Where the World's Oldest Whiskey Meets Golf's Freshest Brand There's a version of golf — the one your grandfather played — where the sport's relationship with whiskey was implied, ambient, and mostly confined to the back corner of the 19th-hole bar. A tumbler of something amber, a quiet handshake,
Ireland's Whiskey Boom Is Feeding a Creeping Fungus
Ireland's Whiskey Boom Has a Dark Side — and It's Creeping Up the Walls Walk through the Irish countryside near a whiskey maturation warehouse these days and you might notice something unsettling clinging to the walls of farmhouses, coating the bark of trees, and shadowing road signs in a thin, da
What Makes Irish Whiskey Triple Distilled, and Why It Matters
Is Irish Whiskey Really Smoother? The Truth Let me set the scene for you. I'm sitting at a bar in Nashville a few years back — a proper whiskey bar, the kind with a back wall that looks like a library except every book is a bottle. The guy next to me, a solid dude who clearly knew his way around a
The American Distillery Bringing Irish Pot Still Whiskey to the US
A Pub in Galway, a Bartender's Story, and an American Distillery Born From Obsession There are origin stories, and then there are the kinds of stories that change the entire trajectory of a person's life. For Patrick and Meagan Miller, it happened in 2011 at a pub in Galway, Ireland, during the Ir
Great Northern Distillery's Historic China Deal With Tsingtao
Ireland Meets China: The Tsingtao-Great Northern Distillery Deal That Could Reshape Irish Whiskey's Future When John Teeling, the patriarch of modern Irish whiskey, sat down in Dublin to sign papers with Zhiwei Cai, Chairman of Tsingtao Royalcask Liquor, the deal on the table was unlike anything t
Ireland Reviews Irish Whiskey Rules That Define the Spirit
Ireland Opens the Books on Irish Whiskey: A Landmark Review of the Rules That Define a Nation's Spirit Something significant is happening on the island of Ireland this summer, and it has nothing to do with the weather. On June 26, 2026, the Irish government formally opened a public consultation th
Brown-Forman Halts Distillation at Slane Irish Whiskey
Brown-Forman Pulls the Plug on Slane Production — And the Silence Is Deafening The whiskey industry has been bracing for hard news for more than a year now, and Brown-Forman just delivered another gut punch. The Louisville-based spirits giant — home to Jack Daniel's, Woodford Reserve, and a sprawl
