Everywhere! A good introduction For the details… Few distilleries have the mystique and the pull of Glenlivet. There seems to have been illicit distilling in the vicinity from at least 1774, when Andrew Smith began running stills at Upper Drumin. His son George inherited the concern in 1817, and was one of the first on …
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Jameson
Can’t miss it. Well…it’s fine. Not great, but not bad, and quite drinkable. For the details… My first non-Scotch was Jameson, consumed along with a dinner of fish and chips at a pub at the edge of a North Sea-facing beach in South Shields. I recall rather liking it, but evidently I didn’t love it …
Connemara
Widely available Tentatively recommended For the details… For a nation with the world’s best claim to being the birthplace of whiskey, Ireland still struggles to get its national spirit the same respect and recognition as Scotland, the United States, and arguably even Japan. Although Ireland is in the midst of a whiskey distilling boom that …
Welcome to Whisky Considered!
I hope you will find something to pique your interest here. I’ve been a single malt Scotch drinker for more than half my life. I started regularly drinking single malts in my very late teens, and I started amassing a collection of bottles, writing tasting notes, and reading extensively about whisky–all at roughly the same …
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