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 …

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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 …

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