Irish Whiskey Reviews

Midleton Distillery is known for its outstanding single pot still Irish whiskey brands. The Redbreast range is world renowned and regarded as the epitome of the style. The Spot range has no shortage of diehard fans anxiously anticipating the next addition to the stable of single pot still whiskeys.   The history of the spot range dates back to the early 1900's when Dublin city wine merchant Mitchell and Sons aged sourced whiskey from the Jameson Bow Street Distillery. The system utilized to maintain the maturation process was a simple dab of paint marking a "spot" on the outside of the...

Two Stacks was founded in 2020 by Shane McCarthy, Liam Brogan, and Donal McLynn who have many years of expereince in the beverage industry globally. As a brand, Two Stacks is probably most famous for their Dram in a Can, and they pride themselves on being independent bottlers and bonders. Two Stacks source their whiskey from a number of distilleries in Ireland and take great pride in transparency. In 2022 they opened their own bonding, blending, and bottling facility and if their first couple of years are anything to go by the future is bright at Two Stacks.  In that spirit of transparency, we know...

The Sexton Single Malt Irish Whiskey was released in the US in late 2018, a short time before it was released in Ireland. In its early days on the market there was some mystery about its origins but it's now generally accepted that it's a whiskey crafted at Bushmills. There is no age statement on the whiskey but The Sexton website states that Master Blender Alex Thomas (of Bushmills) has "perfected a shorter 4 year aging process" and that the whiskey is triple distilled and aged in Oloroso Sherry butts. The Sexton stands out on the shelf thanks to its packaging with a hexagonal...