Comments on Irish Whiskey Notes: New still for Kilbeggan

I did ask someone (not Noel Sweeney) about the pos...

2009-02-24T00:08:00.000Z

I did ask someone (not Noel Sweeney) about the possibility of a PPS. It was a very roundabout answer I got though so I still don't know.

I'll bring it up again, next chance I get.

I suppose in fairness to them, most of those misla...

2009-02-23T02:07:00.000Z

I suppose in fairness to them, most of those mislabelled bottlings were done for U.K. based companies. However I'm not an apologist for them, as it is scandalous that the Irish distilling industry has only ever slightly educated the consumer about 'Pure Pot Still', and what it is and means in whiskey terms.

It would be ''dead good'' alright to paraphrase Mark E. Smith to have a pure pot still from Cooley.

Any news from the tasting on what Sweeney has plan...

2009-02-20T23:33:00.000Z

Any news from the tasting on what Sweeney has planned for the Kilbeggan distillery? Of course Cooleys have a habit of using the term "Pure Pot Still" rather broadly as they are legally able to label bottles as "pure pot still" whether or not they've used a combination of malted and unmalted barley etc. If any of you have seen things like "Magiligans Pure Pot Still Single Malt" you'll know what i mean.

But if they're looking to make a genuine PPS style whiskey to add to their Single Malts etc, that'd be sheer class! With Sweeney's gift for innovation they might even experiment with peating...

Curiouser and curiouser, reckon are they trying to...

2009-02-11T20:46:00.000Z

Curiouser and curiouser, reckon are they trying to steal a march on the Porterhouse boys? They could have small-batch Pure Pot Still bottled quickly enough if they wanted.

A mystery bottle appeared in The Palace Bar on Fle...

2009-02-08T22:37:00.000Z

A mystery bottle appeared in The Palace Bar on Fleet Street it was 63 years old and distilled at the Lockes distillery in 1944.

I'd like to know what their oldest stock is. What ...

2009-02-07T21:13:00.000Z

I'd like to know what their oldest stock is. What did Irish Distillers do with the stock they bought during the take-over? Any plans to release the casks that came with the Kilbeggan Distillery? Are there plans to release their heavily peated malt soon?

Good question. I don't know but I'll see if I can ...

2009-02-07T18:15:00.000Z

Good question. I don't know but I'll see if I can find out.

Which reminds me... there will be a good opportunity to ask Noel Sweeney questions at the Cooley tasting on Thursday. What do we want to know?

Excellent news. Do you know if the triple-distille...

2009-02-07T16:21:00.000Z

Excellent news. Do you know if the triple-distilled stuff will be pure pot still?

John