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Category: Irish Whiskey

Irish Whiskey, so smooth and delicious – find out what’s going on in the world of Irish Whiskey right here – including top Irish Whiskey distilleries like Teeling, Jameson, Midleton, Powers, and Redbreast.

2016 Whisky Advent Calendar – Available for Pre-Order!

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Drinks by the Dram have launched their 2016 range of Advent Calendars, and you can Pre-Order yours right now!

Drinks by the Dram revealed their selection of spirit-filled Advent Calendars for 2016 last week, all of which you can pre-order right this very second! Every calendar contains 24 different handmade wax-sealed 3cl drams, one behind each window, so you count down to Christmas while exploring spectacular whiskies, gins, rums, tequilas and more.

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Categories : Absinthe, American Whiskey, Armagnac, Cognac, Gin, Irish Whiskey, Japanese Whisky, News, Rum, Scotch Whisky, Tequila, Vodka, Whisky
Tags : Advent Calendars, Christmas, Drinks by the Dram, Ginvent, Glenfarclas, New Release, Old and Rare Whisky, Origin, Single Malt Whisky, That Boutique-y Whisky Company, the hot enough vodka co
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World Whiskies Awards and World Drinks Awards Winners

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World Drinks Awards World Whiskies Awards 2016

Yesterday saw the World’s Best whiskies and spirits crowned at the World Drinks Awards, including the World Whiskies Awards.

Before we get into the results though, some good news! Drinks by the Dram have once again teamed up with the World Drinks Awards to create an easy way to taste a whole bunch of these award winners! Head over to our World Drinks Awards 2016 page to browse their selection of 8 different World Whiskies Awards and World Drinks Awards Winners Tasting Sets.

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Categories : Armagnac, Cognac, Gin, Irish Whiskey, Japanese Whisky, Liqueurs, News, Rum, Scotch Whisky, Vodka, Whisky
Tags : Blended Malt, Blended Whisky, Hakushu, Hibiki, Highland Whisky, Jura, Master of Malt, Old Pulteney, Smooth Ambler, Speyside Whisky, Teeling, World Drinks Awards, World Whiskies Awards
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Whisky Advent Day 22: Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey

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Just three days until Christmas and, including today’s, just three drams left in The Whisky Advent Calendar. Slightly bittersweet perhaps, with Christmas being completely awesome but having to say goodbye to a new whisky every day… Fortunately Drinks by the Dram have thought of that, and have a range of dram-filled Christmas Crackers too!

For now some fine drams remain, however, with another Irish whiskey to enjoy behind window 22 courtesy of those Teeling boys. First their family gave us the independent Cooley distillery (producing the excellent Connemara Peated single malt and Greenore single grain, for example), purchased by Beam in 2011, and now in 2015 they’ve opened the first whisky distillery in Dublin for 125 years!

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Categories : Irish Whiskey, Tasting Notes, Whisky
Tags : Advent Calendars, Blended Whisky, Drinks by the Dram, Teeling
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Whisky Advent Day 9: Tullamore D.E.W. 12 Year Old

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Day 9 of #WhiskyAdvent and it’s time for the first Irish whiskey from Drinks by the Dram’s Whisky Advent Calendar!

As the Tasting Note below’s Overall states, Tullamore D.E.W. 12 Year Old is a “blend of malt whiskey, pot still whiskey and grain whiskey matured in bourbon and Sherry casks, all of which is evident here.” In that respect, it showcases many different elements of Irish whiskey as it has come to be known and loved over the last few decades.

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Categories : Irish Whiskey, Whisky
Tags : Advent Calendars, Drinks by the Dram, Tullamore Dew
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Jake & Sam’s Top 10 Greatest Ever Whisky Appearances in Film & TV!

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Something of a rarity this – a joint blog post! Jake and Sam are proud to present our top whisky appearances on the big and small screen.

So, with Blur’s new album still relatively fresh off the press, we give you Whisky & TV! (You know, like Coffee & TV… Geddit?)

Sam: If you’re going to call it that, I’m going to make my own list.

Jake: But…

Sam: Yeah. I’m definitely just doing my own list.

Jake: Fine, after you then. I didn’t want any of your suggestions in my (super-fun-better-than-Sam’s) list anyway.

 

[Jake holds back tears long enough to look a bit sulky.]

 

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Categories : Irish Whiskey, Scotch Whisky, Whisky
Tags : Bruichladdich, Glenmorangie, Hibiki, Jameson, Johnnie Walker, Macallan
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St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland with Jameson!

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Hello Dublin Jameson St Patricks Day Live

It was 11am in Gatwick airport on Saturday 14th March. The plane taking a small drinks press contingent over to Ireland for Jameson’s extended #HelloDublin St. Patrick’s Day celebrations was due to leave in just over an hour from Heathrow. Had I made a terrible mistake?

In fact, I’d just arrived back from a holiday and had always known I couldn’t make that flight, just as I now knew all I’d be seeing of blighty was Gatwick airport itself. My flight to Cork was later, and until then I’d simply be pretending I was Tom Hanks in The Terminal. (Although there were no Catherine Zeta-Jones love interest developments to speak of.)

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Categories : Absinthe, Cocktails, Irish Whiskey, News, Whisky
Tags : Blended Whisky, Glenlivet, Irish Distillers, Jameson, Midleton, Powers, Redbreast, St Patrick's Day
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Find a Four-Leaf Clover And Win In Our St. Patrick’s Day Competition!

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St Patrick's Day 2015 Irish Whiskey Tasting Set

If you take a glance up at the sky, you might notice that the rolling blanket of grey clouds that we’ve become acquainted with for the past 6 months is sometimes briefly replaced with a flaming ball of hot plasma. That fact that we can catch a glimpse of it means the cosmic grip of winter is waning and spring is on its way to thaw us out.

This also means that St. Patrick’s Day is almost upon us! To celebrate the Feast of Saint Patrick (and the fact that the Sun hasn’t left us and ran off with some other planet like COROT-7b), we’re running a little competition which could result in you getting your hands on some fabulous Irish whiskey!

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Categories : Competitions, Irish Whiskey, Whisky
Tags : Bushmills, Drinks by the Dram, Kilbeggan, Tasting Set, Teeling, Tullamore Dew
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Whisky Santa’s Whisky Advent Day 16: Tullamore D.E.W. 12 Year Old

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Tullamore D.E.W. 12 Year Old Special Reserve

Day 16 brings with it a second Irish whiskey in your Whisky Advent Calendars. You’d think the fact Tullamore D.E.W. didn’t have its own distillery between 1954 and 2014 might be a slight problem, but the brand became the second best selling Irish whiskey in the world during that time! Owned by William Grant since 2010, spirit has now been running at the Tullamore distillery since September and will in time provide all the spirit they need.

This 12 Year Old Special Reserve of theirs though, it was a travel retail release originally, which tends to get on my Oreamnos americanus. I mean, how many people clock up more air miles than me?! And yet I still can’t get my hands on a number of new releases just because I don’t happen to use inefficient muggle non-supernatural transportation methods. Fortunately, many of these whiskies (including this Tullamore D.E.W.) graduate to their brand’s main ranges. Ho, yes!

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Categories : Competitions, Irish Whiskey, Tasting Notes, Whisky
Tags : Advent Calendars, Blended Whisky, Tullamore Dew, Whisky Santa
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Whisky Santa’s Whisky Advent Day 2: Teeling Small Batch

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Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey

The second day of Whisky Advent is upon us already and what’s behind the second window of the Whisky Advent Calendar?… Why it’s Teeling Small Batch Irish Whiskey!

The Teeling family were of course the good folk behind the independent Cooley distillery (creating the excellent Connemara Peated single malt and Greenore single grain, for example) before it was eventually bought by Beam. Fortunately, they weren’t away for long and soon released Teeling Small Batch, a blend of selected casks of Irish malt and grain, finished for six months in ex-Flor de Caña Rum casks! In early 2015 they’ll have a shiny new distillery opening in the heart of Dublin too, one of many new projects on the island.

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Categories : Competitions, Irish Whiskey, Tasting Notes, Whisky
Tags : Advent Calendars, Teeling, Whisky Santa
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Irish Whiskey Academy

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Irish Whiskey Academy

I like a bit of Irish whiskey me. That’s why I made a point of writing a big ol’ three-part blog post about it earlier in the year. So, bearing that in mind, when I received an invitation to attend the Irish Whiskey Academy at Midleton distillery over in County Cork I didn’t really need to think about it for too long. The Academy opened in February 2013 and along with a new still house and archive became a focus for the Irish Distillers’ Housewarming celebrations last year.

The Academy is a state of the art training facility whose courses have been attended by many of the leading whisk(e)y writers, journalists and bartenders. There’s a nice Dave Broom quote on their site that sums it up quite nicely: “I can honestly say that this is the finest training facility I have ever been in, and some of the finest training I have ever had”. That.

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Categories : Irish Whiskey, News, Whisky
Tags : Glenfiddich, Grain Whisky, Irish Distillers, Jameson, Midleton, Pernod Ricard, Redbreast
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