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Why you should drink Irish Whiskey!
All Irish malt is made from the finest quality malted barley, yeast and water. Indeed distillers prefer to use Irish barley. There is no legal requirement that says it must be Irish but with Irelands long summer days, mild and occasionally wet, give ideal conditions for growing barley. Most distilleries believe that the variety of barley does not have an impact on the flavor, though some do feel that a strain called Golden Promise does impart a different mouth feel to their spirit.
DISTILLATION
1. All traditional Irish
2. The distillate stream is cut in the intermediate (feints) still. The weaker feints, between 45% and 75%, will be collected to be 3. This is a run as normal spirit still with the middle cut being collected. The distillation regime does vary; different fill levels, different cut points in the intermediate and spirit stills.
Maturation
The new-make spirit is then reduced to 63.5%abv and placed in oak casks to mature. These casks have typically been filled with either bourbon or sherry for 1 fill prior to filling with Irish Whiskey. There are three processes happening here:
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