Continuing with out month of whiskies we move to something that I had high hopes for, but much like last week – it’s really only good in a single type of mixed drink – which at the very least it does well. This time we go to something meant to compete head to head with Jameson, the Tullamore Dew.
With Cinco de Mayo this week it’s time once again for the Honest Booze Reviews tradition of mixing up the holiday with St Patrick’s day so we begin with this, which was sadly the only whiskey I could find from Ireland that wasn’t Jameson or Bushmills at my local store. (Thankfully I do go to other stores)
If this whiskey could have an intro song it would be “Let me tell you bout my best friends” or “Come Together”. It’s a beautiful collaboration of a whiskey made from barrels that were used to make beer, where the beer was made with the same whiskey’s barrels. It’s the pinnacle of the trend of ‘upcycling’ so hard it almost hurts.
As part of a three-whiskey box special I got a selection of Jameson’s. Of course you know we’ve already reviewed the classic, but the next two up are the Caskmate and this the Special Reserve (or as it’s being slowly renamed too – the Black Barrel). However with either the name of a special reserve or black barrel this feels not like a better more exclusive Jameson, but simply another breed in it’s line.
As promised here we have some irish whiskey’s mostly due to a sampler pack I bought, but I figured I should get something else, and this one came with a nice flask. While I am fine with everything but the actual taste I don’t think this is the irish whiskey I would ever want or need.
I have to admit, while I like the moxie of the people who make this whiskey, and the look of the bottle – I am just not a fan of the spirit itself. I will admit the best thing I did with this was use it for some whiskey jerky.
So this week as a change of pace let’s review another whiskey. No wait – it’s an Irish Whiskey, which therefore makes it more unique that our scotch-reviews-every-week trend of late.
What did you think we’d post an article on St. Paddy’s day that wasn’t Irish Whiskey? Well you’d likely have been a loyal reader as we’ve previously either been too drunk to post anything or have once again mixed up Mexican and Irish holiday’s and posted some Tequila
So we’ll be going over the reviews from the Live @ Nauticon event in the following month, but to give us some time to heal and sit down to actually write everything up we’ve decided to include a review into our repertoire that honestly we should have already done a year and a half ago.
Hello and welcome to another edition of Booze reviews, I am the man called Justice and in the spirit of the holiday on we just celebrated I’d like to request that for the duration of this article you read it with an Irish accent.
Yes, yet another St. Patrick’s day has come and gone, complete with bits of green hastily thrown into your outfit, strange foods most of us wouldn’t normally eat, and Booze. Lots and lots of Booze. This St. Patty’s day William Henri Neve IV and myself sat down with some Irish whiskey and now I’d like to present one of them to you.
