#Jameson Blender's Dog

[peterlemon]

(via Jameson's "The Blender's Dog" Irish Whiskey - Review)

A very nice, almost dangerously quaffable, somewhat expensive Irish whiskey from Jameson's The Whiskey Makers series. Also a (very) little bit about real dogs...

[perigrinedave]

A taste of Ireland

Jameson Blender's Dog (Part of the Whiskey Makers Series)

The Blender's Dog is a whiskey that celebrates the art of marrying whiskeys.

Distillers are concerned with all things pot still, Coopers obsess over barrels and Blenders need to know the best of both worlds.

The Blender's Job is a superbly balanced, complex whiskey that delivers butterscotch sweetness with a prickle of spice and tannins. Making whiskey requires a fair deal of science, but blending is art.

"I wanted to create harmony and complexity, an infusion of flavour that perfectly fills your mouth and nose. My whiskey has a rich creamy mouth feel, with the sweetness of butterscotch, giving way to the prickle of spices and tannins". -- Billy Leighton, Head Blender

[thewinepress-blog]

From the Jameson Whiskey Family, Whiskey Makers Series comes three new whiskeys celebrating the work of their key employees, their craft and the tools needed to produce Jameson’s fine whiskey.

Jameson, Blender’s Dog  The first of the trio celebrates their Head Blender, Bill Leighton and the skill behind the art of blending. The job of the Head Blender requires an in depth knowledge of whiskeys and the impact of character and age in the matching process. The “Dog” is the instrument used by blenders to gather samples from the cask. A sweet, rich whiskey, Blender’s Dog has notes of vanilla, orange, coffee, oak and nut. An initial taste of oak, spices and vanilla permeates from its honeycomb smoothness leading to an extremely long aftertaste when the sweet honey fades and is replaced by both a gentle spicy and fruity palate

. Jameson, Cooper’s Croze is an homage to their Head Cooper, Ger Buckley. It celebrates the mastery of selecting and maintaining the precious casks used in the production of their whiskey. The “Croze” is a tool used to create the groove where the head of the cask is fitted. As would be expected from the cooper’s choice, the nose is a blend of the American and Spanish oaks used in the chosen casks, With the addition of apples, raisins and pear. The taste is again a combination of the casks: vanilla from the ex-bourbon American barrels mixed with sherried fruits from the Spanish Oloroso Sherry barrels. The medium length taste sees the vanilla fade leaving oaky fruit touches.

Jameson, Distiller’s Safe, the last of the trio celebrates the craft of Head Distiller, Brian Nation. The “Spirit Safe” is an instrument used to sample from the copper pot stills used in distillation. A smooth, barley sweet blended whiskey, it has notes of barley sugar, spices and herbs with a hint of almonds/marzipan. The initial palate taste is one of sweet barley sugar with hints of orange, vanilla, fruit, cinnamon and oak all gently appearing over time. With a long finish, the drying taste makes the spices and oak fruit linger.

[penniesforthestorm]

“I’m officially requisitioning this chicken”: ‘Justified’ Season 1, Episodes 6-9

As we move into the second half of Justified’s first season, things are heating up all over Kentucky. We get more insight into the operations of the Crowder clan, plus some even larger adversaries who’ll come into play further down the line. These notes cover Episodes 6 through 9, the next batch will be 10-12, with the finale getting its own entry. Notes on the pilot are here and Episodes 2-5 can be found here. Drop me a line any time-- if I could be sitting next to you in a dive bar, I would be. (Not much for Jim Beam, though, or, if I’m being honest, bourbon in general, owing to some unfortunate shenanigans in my early 20s. Mine’s a Jameson and ginger ale, with a squeeze of lime.)

Episode Six: “The Collection”

-We open with Raylan visiting Boyd, on his feet again after the shooting, and Boyd bending Raylan’s ear about his newfound ministry. Raylan doesn’t buy it for a minute, and he asks Boyd for dirt on Arlo.

-Raylan passes along Johnny Crowder’s warning to Ava about Bo-- she’s not overly concerned. Art, coming to pick Raylan up for the day’s work, is not terribly pleased to find Ava in his motel room.

-Case of the week: civil forfeiture, centering on a man named Owen Carnes trying to offload paintings purchased with stolen cash. Art and Raylan pick up a gallery owner, Karl Hanselman (Robert Picardo) in Cincinnati, and drive him down to Carnes’ place. Carnes and the gallery owner begin discussing his collection of Hitler paintings. Art, in disbelief, asks, “You mean Adolf?”

-Raylan, disgusted, wanders out and finds Carnes’ wife, who doesn’t seem particularly surprised or upset at the turn of events. I have in my notes “another blonde in trouble Jesus Raylan”--there’s nothing untoward, but... dude.

-On the way back to Cincinnati, Hanselman tells Raylan, with a smirk, to come see his “collection” any time. Raylan, never one to mince words- “I’d rather stick my dick in a blender.”

-Raylan finally meets ADA Vasquez, after some folderol at the office involving the now very dead Owen Carnes. Later, Winona shows up, asking Raylan to run a list of names through various criminal databases. Raylan visits Gary, and informs him that if Winona comes to grief through association with any of Gary’s shady dealings, Gary’s going to make another enemy.

-Back at the Carnes place, Raylan unravels the scam Caryn Carnes and the horse trainer, Greg Davis, are trying to pull-- he knows Owen didn’t kill himself, and he pulls Davis to his side by telling him, in an abstract way, about Gary, and how many more people he might have to kill. “Where will it end?” he asks.

-Finally, he goes to see Hanselman, and reluctantly agrees to see ‘the collection’. This is a great moment- the camera stays on Hanselman and Raylan as H. explains how his father used to work for Hitler, “a very charismatic man who knew who was to blame”. After the war, dad recanted publicly, but held onto his repugnant views in private. The camera then shows us shelves of glass jars filled with ash-- Hanselman has been tracking down Hitler’s paintings and burning them, in revenge.

-Raylan goes to see Boyd, and asks him to forget about Arlo. “I met a man whose whole life was crippled,” he explains. “I’m just going to let that old dog lie.”

Episode Seven: “Blind Spot”

-We open with Ava in the hardware store. Johnny Crowder comes in and loudly asks the proprietor for some specialty items-- rope, duct tape, plastic sheeting, and a shovel, on orders from the soon-to-be released Bo Crowder. Aunt Helen sees his bluff and raises him, aiming a shotgun at him-- a warning he wisely heeds.

-Later, Raylan visits Ava and she talks about Bowman, explaining that things weren’t miserable all the time. “I keep going back and forth, between light and dark,” she tells him. Just as they’re getting comfy, a masked intruder bursts in, blasting away, but Raylan manages to wrestle him out through the open second-floor window, firing off a few shots.

-Sheriff Mosley takes Raylan to question Johnny Crowder. On the drive, he explains his beef with the Crowders-- a certain Henry, widely known as ‘the good Crowder’, raped and killed Mosley’s ten-year-old niece. Johnny, for his part, knows nothing about the shooting, and confesses his affection for Ava.

-the next morning, we see a man watching Ava outside the Harlan County Sheriff’s Office. We then catch up to the actual shooter-- a cringing kid called Red, and we get a name for Ava’s watcher, Mr. Duke.

-Raylan gets chewed out by Art, since he has now literally tampered with the investigation against Boyd Crowder-- “Were you in her bedroom?” Unusually, Raylan has no smarty rejoinder.

-Ava and Winona share a strained conversation in the courthouse-- “You ever get tangled up with a law enforcement officer?” Winona asks. They’re interrupted by Sheriff Mosley, who asks Ava to come with him.

-Raylan visits Boyd, looking for answers. After a false start, Boyd explains that Bo didn’t order Ava to be shot, and plants a flea in Raylan’s ear-- what if Ava wasn’t the target?

-Answers arrive quickly: Mosley is in cahoots with the Miami cartel. Duke was supposed to kill Raylan, but, since Duke isn’t familiar with Kentucky, Mosley supplied Red. Mosley shoots Duke to prevent his mistake being exposed, and hatches a plan to bring Raylan to the cartel. Red, driving a bound and gagged Ava, gleefully expounds on Ava’s desirability among the straight men of Harlan County. Ava frees herself enough to strangle him, and the chase ends with Raylan and Ava free and Mosley under arrest. In a passing comment, Mosley brings up the Dixie Mafia, and their current alliance with Miami.

-Finally, we meet Bo Crowder (M.C. Gainey). Boyd’s ongoing conversations with Raylan have not gone unnoticed by his fellow inmates, and just as they start beating on him for being a snitch, Bo intervenes. “It’s good to see you, Daddy,” Boyd says with a smile.

Episode Eight, “Blowback”

-At a diner in Lexington, the newly-released Bo slides into a booth with Ava. He’s out early courtesy of Mosley’s arrest, and he delivers a truly nasty innuendo about ‘homemade pie’ before Raylan arrives on the scene.

-Case of the week: a prisoner, Cal Wallace (Deadwood’s W. Earl Brown), is in Lexington for a few hearings, pending transfer to a ‘supermax’ facility.

-Winona arrives home in the middle of the afternoon, to find an unexpected guest-- Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns), self-styled ‘home security consultant’ and possessor of a luxuriant blond coiffure. Right away, Winona smells a rat, and sends Duffy packing, but not before he snidely sends his regards to Gary.

-Prisoner Wallace places the Marshals’ Office under a hostage situation, and Art tells Raylan that if he gets a clear shot, he should take it. Raylan, due for a meeting with Vasquez, begins chatting with Wallace, attempting to defuse the situation. Wallace is a colorful sort-- he has no particular illusions about escape or amnesty. Eventually, Raylan teases out that Wallace is furious with the prison system for dehumanizing him, and under mounting pressure, offers Wallace some fried chicken, sending Tim Gutterson out to get it before Lexington SWAT arrives.

-Winona confronts Gary about Duffy’s visit-- he initially tries to play dumb, but then gets irritated when he realizes how much she knows. Duffy was on the list of names that Winona gave to Raylan in E6.

-Another parable from the Book of Raylan Givens: “People in terrible situations stay alive not because they think things will get better, but because they want to see how the story ends.” For now, Cal Wallace’s story ends in fried chicken, a shot of bourbon, and not dying on the carpet.

-Unfortunately for Raylan, he still has to meet with Vasquez, who brings bad news: thanks to Raylan hopping into bed with Ava, the case against Boyd Crowder has essentially disappeared. Raylan goes to greet an ebullient Boyd. “Who are any of us to fight the will of God?” Boyd proclaims. Raylan promises that he’ll see Boyd locked up again before long, as Boyd practically skips into his father’s arms.

Episode Nine: “Hatless”

-Raylan, on a week’s suspension, is drinking away his sorrows when he eavesdrops on two bros talking derogatorily about women. “I didn’t order assholes with my whiskey”, he sneers, and all three go outside. Hilariously, it’s the middle of the afternoon. In short order, Raylan gets the tar kicked out of him, and one of the troublemakers even steals his hat. Winona, who he was supposed to meet, finds him on the ground. (One has to wonder how many times she found him in these exact circumstances.)

-at Raylan’s motel, Winona asks him about Duffy as she tends to his wounds. As yet, he doesn’t know much, but it paints an unpleasant picture.

-Gary, meanwhile, goes to visit his old college friend Toby, a former football star. He’s trying to worm money out of him, but Toby tells him he can’t spare any. He offers, instead, to provide a little intimidation.

-Raylan tracks down Duffy in his shabby office. Duffy’s lackey makes a few menacing remarks, and Raylan, his face still raw from the bar fight, calmly says, “I already got one ass-kicking; I’m not looking for another”, but mentions that if Duffy goes after Gary and Winona, they’ll have more to discuss. After Raylan leaves, Duffy orders his pal to tail him and ‘put him in the ground’.

-Duffy makes a phone call to his boss, a Mr. Arnett, asking him for more instructions. Gary shows up with Toby, who gets slightly carried away with his role as a heavy. Gary, meanwhile, blabbers on about how Arnett could double his money on the land deal if he just waits.

-And it’s our buddy Arnold Pinter, back from a disappointing sojourn in Tahiti. (An aside: in my experience after more than a decade in NY, there are few people more parochial than born-and-raised Brooklynites. And, y’know, fair dues, it’s a great place, but it’s really fucking funny to this Montanan.) Pinter gives Raylan the rundown on Duffy and Arnett-- Arnett is with the Dixie Mafia, operating out of Frankfort, and Duffy is a dangerous loose cannon.

-Raylan tracks down Duffy’s sidekick Billy, who turns out not to be so tough on his own-- he reveals that Duffy plans to kidnap Winona that very night. Raylan immediately goes to get Winona. On the drive to safety, she tries to explain why she’s with Gary, and says maybe the most devastating thing she’s said so far, “I needed a little hope in my life.”

-After a talk, Raylan and Gary go to confront Duffy and Arnett. Gary offers Arnett the deed to his proposed ‘shopping destination’, and to everyone’s surprise, Arnett accepts. Duffy quite literally goes ballistic, screaming at Arnett, “Show me the Benjamins the homies are always rapping about!” But cooler heads (eventually) prevail, and Raylan takes Gary back to Winona.

-Finally, Raylan recovers his stolen hat, thanks to the bartender. He mocks the thief, saying, “That’s a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.”

[oscaronthegloryroad]

I want to write something about how small the whiskey industry actually is.

Because you can walk down the whiskey aisle at the liquor store and see a hundred brands, BUT! A lot of them are owned by a few companies. For example:

Beam-Suntory: Jim Beam, Basil Hayden’s, Baker’s, Booker’s, Knob Creek, Old Grand-Dad, Old Overholt, Maker’s Mark, Teacher’s, Laphroaig, Ardmore, Bowmore, Auchentoshan, Glen Garioch, Connemara, Kilbeggan, Tyrconnell, Canadian Club,  The Yamazaki, The Chita, The Hakushu, Hibiki, and Suntory.

Heaven Hill: Evan Williams, Elijah Craig, Bernheim, Fighting Cock, Rittenhouse, Henry McKenna, Larceny, Pikesville, Mellow Corn, Old Fitzgerald, Parker’s Heritage, Heaven Hill, and Black Velvet.

Diageo: Johnnie Walker, Old Par, Talisker, Bulliet, Lagavulin, Ardbeg, Glenmorangie, Oban, Black & White, Buchanan’s, Caol Ila, Cardhu, Cragganmore, Crown Royal, Dalwhinnie, George Dickel, Glen Elgin, Glen Ord, Glenkinchie, Haig, J&B, Knockando, Royal Lochnagar, Seagram’s, Talisker, Vat 69, and White Horse.

Lux Row/MGP*: Rebel Yell, Ezra Brooks, Davies County, Lux Row, Blood Oath, David Nicholson, George Remus, Rossville Union, eight & Sand, and Tanner’s Creek. *Lux Row and MGP literally just got combined, so MGP owns the Lux Row brands now

Pernod Ricard: 100 Pipers, Ballentines, Blender’s Pride, Chivas Regal, Glenlivet, Green Spot, J.P. Wiser’s, Jameson, Longmorn, Midleton, Paddy’s Irish Whiskey, Passport Blended Scotch, Power’s, Redbreast, Royal Salute, Red Stag, Scapa, and Strathisla.

But there are also smaller companies that own multiple brands:

Brown-Foreman: Old Forester, Early Times, Canadian Mist, Jack Daniels, and Woodford Reserve

Bacardi: Aberfeldy and Dewar’s (most of Bacardi’s brands are rum brands, but they have been trying to branch out)

United Spirits: Antiquity, Bagpiper, Black Dog, Dalmore, Director’s Special, Royal Challenge, Signature, and Whyte & Mackay

Eight companies own ALL of those brands. And I know I missed brands that Diageo and Beam-Suntory own. not too long ago the brands listed above were virtually ALL of the whiskey brands available, it is only with the boom of craft distilling that little guys have gotten into the market.

[mcmullansirishpub]

McMullan’s Whiskey Club Ambassadors Will and Cassie curate another fun whiskey weekend at the pub. Featured whiskey from Jameson Blenders Dog, Bushmill’s 10, and Red Breast 15. (at McMullan's Irish Pub) https://www.instagram.com/p/CELPTWHnlMq/?igshid=9bczif4amgqa

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Jameson Blender's Dog ~ 43% (Irish Distillers)

#Whiskey review: Jameson Blender's Dog from @JamesonWhiskey Whisky Maker Series

Whiskey review: Jameson Blender’s Dog Category: Blended Pot Still and Grain Irish Whiskey Origin: Midleton Distillery Bottling: Irish Distillers, Jameson ABV: 43% Cost: £49.73 from Master of Malt

What they say: Jameson Blender’s Dog

The Whiskey Makers Series.

The secret behind our whiskey lies in the passion and dedication of our masterful craftsmen, our Head Distiller, Head Cooper and Head…

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Distiller’s Friday Roundup – January 11th, 2019

It’s 2019 and we’re already off to the races with information of latest releases and business happenings. As with the whole thing at the present time it sort of feels that politics have invaded even the beverages house. The federal government shutdown is at once affecting the goods supposed for cabinets in early 2019. Douglas Laing kicked off 2019 with a cask energy providing of Timorous Beastie 12 12 months and Tullibardine has a brand new limited-edition unmarried malt for you. Kavalan has a gin now, Jameson is updating its bottles and Plantation has two new excessive rums. All that and extra within the Friday Roundup for January 11th!

The Shutdown Is Affecting Your Beverages

To not get started our first Friday Roundup of 2019 on a heavy observe, however the USA executive close down has discovered a brand new sufferer: the alcohol business. On December 22nd the federal government of the US didn’t agree on a spending invoice and all departments deemed non-essential had been close down. A kind of departments used to be the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Industry Bureau, referred to as the TTB. Your reasonable citizen most likely isn’t all that acutely aware of what the TTB does. Other people within the beer, wine and spirits industries, alternatively, are keenly acutely aware of simply how major they’re. Put merely, if a product has alcohol in it, the TTB has to approve the label ahead of it may be bought. What does that imply? Each and every alcohol logo in the world is not able to free up new merchandise inside of the USA in the event that they haven’t already been authorized.

The TTB has been deemed non-essential throughout the federal government shutdown

Presently the beer business is feeling the ache maximum acutely as their manufacturing timeline is far shorter than that of your reasonable distilled spirit. Logo new beers ready to be launched would possibly need to be thrown out in the event that they aren’t authorized quickly. Because of the backlog that the closure of the TTB is already inflicting, liquors that had been in the beginning slated for international free up dates within the coming months would possibly finally end up debuting across the world prematurely in their US releases, or being driven again for months. Already after 3 weeks of backlog, the shutdown is prone to have a long way achieving results at the business and its shoppers. Liquor retail outlets that depend on new merchandise, small manufacturers that already perform on skinny margins and firms that may’t area their merchandise indefinitely will all be affected.

Douglas Laing Begins 2019 With Our Favourite Mouse

In happier information, unbiased Scotch whisky bottler Douglas Laing is kicking off 2019 with Timorous Beastie 12 Year Cask Strength. Best three,000 bottles are to be had throughout Europe and Asia.

It’s bottled at a cask energy of 54.four% ABV and carries a instructed worth of £59.99 ($75 US). For the ones unfamiliar, the title Timorous Beastie is a connection with famed Scottish poet Robert Burns’ well-known poem “To a Mouse”. The road already accommodates a 10 Year, a 18 Year, a 40 Year and a NAS blended malt expression.

Timorous Beastie 12 12 months Cask Energy / Photograph Credit score: Douglas Laing

Tullibardine Expands Marquess Assortment

The Marquess Assortment from Scotch whisky manufacturer Tullibardine is supposed to have a good time the distillery’s heritage and powerful hyperlink with the hamlet of Tullibardine. The newest addition is a brand spanking new limited-edition unmarried malt, titled Tullibardine The Murray Marsala Finish.

Distilled in 2006, it used to be to start with elderly in first-fill bourbon barrels, then completed for three hundred and sixty five days in Sicilian Marsala wine casks. The fourth whisky added to the Marquess Assortment, it used to be bottled in 2018 at 46% ABV.

Tullibardine The Murray Marsala End / Photograph Credit score: Tullibardine

Johnnie Walker Blue Label 12 months of the Pig

Yearly Johnnie Walker releases a brand new restricted version Blue Label expression that celebrates the Chinese language New 12 months. For 2019, that implies Year of the Pig. Earlier editions come with 2016’s Year of the Monkey, 2017’s Year of the Rooster, and 2018’s Year of the Dog.

The label artwork used to be designed by way of English illustrator Chrissy Lau whose design used to be impressed by way of her Chinese language heritage. Within the bottle is the usual Johnnie Walker Blue Label, one of the vital widely known mixed Scotch whiskies in the world.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label 12 months of the Pig / Photograph Credit score: Diageo

Kavalan’s First Non-Whisky Unencumber

Award-winning Taiwanese whisky manufacturer Kavalan has formally entered 2019 with a brand spanking new free up, and it’s no longer a whisky. No longer most effective is Kavalan Gin the primary gin for the emblem, it’s also the first actual non-whisky spirit that the emblem has ever launched.

“We need to be offering a brand new gin revel in this new 12 months. That’s why in conjunction with the normal botanicals of juniper, aniseed and coriander, we’re giving folks a style of Kavalan’s house in Yilan with kumquat peel, dried famous person fruit and red-flesh guava botanical extracts,” says Kavalan CEO Mr. YT Lee. Kavalan Gin is bottled at 40% ABV.

Kavalan Gin / Photograph Credit score: Kavalan

Plantation Rum Debuts Extrême No. three Assortment

Remaining fall, Plantation Rum debuted its Extrême No. 2 Assortment. Now the emblem is again with a 3rd assortment. It options two rums from the Lengthy Pond Distillery in Jamaica. The Extrême Assortment is Plantation’s pedestal for extraordinary and particular rums that Plantation creator and master blender classifies as “excessive”. Those releases come at the heels of the devastating hearth at Lengthy Pond distillery again in July of 2018 which destroyed 65,000 liters of rum and all the wooden fermentation vats.

Each releases had been distilled in 1996 and elderly in Jamaica for 21 years in ex-bourbon barrels ahead of touring to France to spend an extra 12 months in ex-Ferrand cognac casks.

Plantation Extrême No. three Assortment / Photograph Credit score: Plantation Rum

Plantation Extrême No. 3 Jamaica HJC 1996

The Lengthy Pond Distillery gives other kinds or marques of rums, starting from the lightest to maximum intense. The HJC marque gives an ester fee of 345g/hlap and is claimed to have “a profile marked by way of wealthy spiced notes”. It’s bottled at a cask energy of 56.2% ABV.

Plantation Extrême No. 3 Jamaica ITP 1996

The ITP marque gives an ester fee of 386g/hlap and is claimed to have “notes of very ripe tropical fruit”. It’s bottled at a cask energy of 54.eight% ABV.

Siempre Tequila Provides Añejo To Their Vary

Marking the primary new addition to the core vary of spirits from Siempre Tequila is Siempre Tequila Añejo. It’s made out of 100% Blue Weber Agave this is harvested kind of eight years after planting. The agaves are slow-cooked in stone and brick ovens for round three days ahead of double distillation. The spirit then spends 12 months in ex-bourbon barrels. It’s bottled at 40% ABV.

Siempre Tequila Añejo / Photograph Credit score: Siempre Tequila

Jameson Whiskey Updates Their Labels, Bottles and Tale

This week Jameson introduced some delicate updates to its iconic whiskey labels and inexperienced bottles. The bottle form has modified to incorporate a brand new tapered frame and what the emblem calls a “extra beneficiant shoulder curve”. The bottle previously featured an emboss declaring that the product used to be “Produced in Eire”. That has been changed by way of “1780”, the 12 months by which the emblem used to be established.

The IPA and Stout Caskmates bottles have additionally gained updates. Maximum significantly, most likely, are the updates to the beginning tale at the again of the Caskmates bottles. Jameson in the beginning labored with Franciscan Smartly Brewery in County Cork, however the packaging now states that the speculation started “when native craft brewery 8 Levels borrowed our casks to age their tremendous Irish Stout”. It will have to be famous that proprietor Pernod Ricard just lately obtained 8 Levels Brewing, so it’s no longer unexpected that they’d be the brand new brewery used to season Caskmates whiskey. Nonetheless, the re-writing of the beginning tale is abnormal.

Jameson’s Up to date Bottle / Photograph Credit score: Pernod Ricard/Irish Distillers

That does it for our first Friday Roundup of 2019. Till subsequent week! Now off to catch a flight to Asia to shop for Timorous Beastie 12 12 months Cask Energy.

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Distiller’s Friday Roundup – January 11th, 2019

It’s 2019 and we’re already off to the races with information of latest releases and business happenings. As with the whole thing at the present time it sort of feels that politics have invaded even the beverages house. The federal government shutdown is at once affecting the goods supposed for cabinets in early 2019. Douglas Laing kicked off 2019 with a cask energy providing of Timorous Beastie 12 12 months and Tullibardine has a brand new limited-edition unmarried malt for you. Kavalan has a gin now, Jameson is updating its bottles and Plantation has two new excessive rums. All that and extra within the Friday Roundup for January 11th!

The Shutdown Is Affecting Your Beverages

To not get started our first Friday Roundup of 2019 on a heavy observe, however the USA executive close down has discovered a brand new sufferer: the alcohol business. On December 22nd the federal government of the US didn’t agree on a spending invoice and all departments deemed non-essential had been close down. A kind of departments used to be the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Industry Bureau, referred to as the TTB. Your reasonable citizen most likely isn’t all that acutely aware of what the TTB does. Other people within the beer, wine and spirits industries, alternatively, are keenly acutely aware of simply how major they’re. Put merely, if a product has alcohol in it, the TTB has to approve the label ahead of it may be bought. What does that imply? Each and every alcohol logo in the world is not able to free up new merchandise inside of the USA in the event that they haven’t already been authorized.

The TTB has been deemed non-essential throughout the federal government shutdown

Presently the beer business is feeling the ache maximum acutely as their manufacturing timeline is far shorter than that of your reasonable distilled spirit. Logo new beers ready to be launched would possibly need to be thrown out in the event that they aren’t authorized quickly. Because of the backlog that the closure of the TTB is already inflicting, liquors that had been in the beginning slated for international free up dates within the coming months would possibly finally end up debuting across the world prematurely in their US releases, or being driven again for months. Already after 3 weeks of backlog, the shutdown is prone to have a long way achieving results at the business and its shoppers. Liquor retail outlets that depend on new merchandise, small manufacturers that already perform on skinny margins and firms that may’t area their merchandise indefinitely will all be affected.

Douglas Laing Begins 2019 With Our Favourite Mouse

In happier information, unbiased Scotch whisky bottler Douglas Laing is kicking off 2019 with Timorous Beastie 12 Year Cask Strength. Best three,000 bottles are to be had throughout Europe and Asia.

It’s bottled at a cask energy of 54.four% ABV and carries a instructed worth of £59.99 ($75 US). For the ones unfamiliar, the title Timorous Beastie is a connection with famed Scottish poet Robert Burns’ well-known poem “To a Mouse”. The road already accommodates a 10 Year, a 18 Year, a 40 Year and a NAS blended malt expression.

Timorous Beastie 12 12 months Cask Energy / Photograph Credit score: Douglas Laing

Tullibardine Expands Marquess Assortment

The Marquess Assortment from Scotch whisky manufacturer Tullibardine is supposed to have a good time the distillery’s heritage and powerful hyperlink with the hamlet of Tullibardine. The newest addition is a brand spanking new limited-edition unmarried malt, titled Tullibardine The Murray Marsala Finish.

Distilled in 2006, it used to be to start with elderly in first-fill bourbon barrels, then completed for three hundred and sixty five days in Sicilian Marsala wine casks. The fourth whisky added to the Marquess Assortment, it used to be bottled in 2018 at 46% ABV.

Tullibardine The Murray Marsala End / Photograph Credit score: Tullibardine

Johnnie Walker Blue Label 12 months of the Pig

Yearly Johnnie Walker releases a brand new restricted version Blue Label expression that celebrates the Chinese language New 12 months. For 2019, that implies Year of the Pig. Earlier editions come with 2016’s Year of the Monkey, 2017’s Year of the Rooster, and 2018’s Year of the Dog.

The label artwork used to be designed by way of English illustrator Chrissy Lau whose design used to be impressed by way of her Chinese language heritage. Within the bottle is the usual Johnnie Walker Blue Label, one of the vital widely known mixed Scotch whiskies in the world.

Johnnie Walker Blue Label 12 months of the Pig / Photograph Credit score: Diageo

Kavalan’s First Non-Whisky Unencumber

Award-winning Taiwanese whisky manufacturer Kavalan has formally entered 2019 with a brand spanking new free up, and it’s no longer a whisky. No longer most effective is Kavalan Gin the primary gin for the emblem, it’s also the first actual non-whisky spirit that the emblem has ever launched.

“We need to be offering a brand new gin revel in this new 12 months. That’s why in conjunction with the normal botanicals of juniper, aniseed and coriander, we’re giving folks a style of Kavalan’s house in Yilan with kumquat peel, dried famous person fruit and red-flesh guava botanical extracts,” says Kavalan CEO Mr. YT Lee. Kavalan Gin is bottled at 40% ABV.

Kavalan Gin / Photograph Credit score: Kavalan

Plantation Rum Debuts Extrême No. three Assortment

Remaining fall, Plantation Rum debuted its Extrême No. 2 Assortment. Now the emblem is again with a 3rd assortment. It options two rums from the Lengthy Pond Distillery in Jamaica. The Extrême Assortment is Plantation’s pedestal for extraordinary and particular rums that Plantation creator and master blender classifies as “excessive”. Those releases come at the heels of the devastating hearth at Lengthy Pond distillery again in July of 2018 which destroyed 65,000 liters of rum and all the wooden fermentation vats.

Each releases had been distilled in 1996 and elderly in Jamaica for 21 years in ex-bourbon barrels ahead of touring to France to spend an extra 12 months in ex-Ferrand cognac casks.

Plantation Extrême No. three Assortment / Photograph Credit score: Plantation Rum

Plantation Extrême No. 3 Jamaica HJC 1996

The Lengthy Pond Distillery gives other kinds or marques of rums, starting from the lightest to maximum intense. The HJC marque gives an ester fee of 345g/hlap and is claimed to have “a profile marked by way of wealthy spiced notes”. It’s bottled at a cask energy of 56.2% ABV.

Plantation Extrême No. 3 Jamaica ITP 1996

The ITP marque gives an ester fee of 386g/hlap and is claimed to have “notes of very ripe tropical fruit”. It’s bottled at a cask energy of 54.eight% ABV.

Siempre Tequila Provides Añejo To Their Vary

Marking the primary new addition to the core vary of spirits from Siempre Tequila is Siempre Tequila Añejo. It’s made out of 100% Blue Weber Agave this is harvested kind of eight years after planting. The agaves are slow-cooked in stone and brick ovens for round three days ahead of double distillation. The spirit then spends 12 months in ex-bourbon barrels. It’s bottled at 40% ABV.

Siempre Tequila Añejo / Photograph Credit score: Siempre Tequila

Jameson Whiskey Updates Their Labels, Bottles and Tale

This week Jameson introduced some delicate updates to its iconic whiskey labels and inexperienced bottles. The bottle form has modified to incorporate a brand new tapered frame and what the emblem calls a “extra beneficiant shoulder curve”. The bottle previously featured an emboss declaring that the product used to be “Produced in Eire”. That has been changed by way of “1780”, the 12 months by which the emblem used to be established.

The IPA and Stout Caskmates bottles have additionally gained updates. Maximum significantly, most likely, are the updates to the beginning tale at the again of the Caskmates bottles. Jameson in the beginning labored with Franciscan Smartly Brewery in County Cork, however the packaging now states that the speculation started “when native craft brewery 8 Levels borrowed our casks to age their tremendous Irish Stout”. It will have to be famous that proprietor Pernod Ricard just lately obtained 8 Levels Brewing, so it’s no longer unexpected that they’d be the brand new brewery used to season Caskmates whiskey. Nonetheless, the re-writing of the beginning tale is abnormal.

Jameson’s Up to date Bottle / Photograph Credit score: Pernod Ricard/Irish Distillers

That does it for our first Friday Roundup of 2019. Till subsequent week! Now off to catch a flight to Asia to shop for Timorous Beastie 12 12 months Cask Energy.

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The Jameson Whiskey Experience, Dublin

Where better to learn all you need to know about Jameson Whiskey than the place where it all began?

Bow Street in Dublin is the site of the original Jameson Distillery and is now a visitor’s centre and tourist attraction.

This is a must if you ever find yourself in Dublin’s fair city, whether you are a Jameson fan or not.

At Bow Street you will learn everything you need to know about the brand as well as about the history of Irish Whiskey, and the huge influence Jameson has had on the industry.

There are three different tours on offer and each is so good you’ll have a hard time choosing between them.

  The Bow Street Experience

The first, the Bow Street Experience, takes 40 minutes and will have you talking with an Irish brogue at the end of it!

It tells the tale of John Jameson and the Whiskey legacy he has left us with today. Fully knowledgeable and experienced guides, who are eager to answer your questions, will lead you round the distillery.

This is not only the life of John Jameson, but also the massive influence he had on Irish Whiskey and the Jameson brand in particular.

You will also get the chance to take part in a comparative tasting of Jameson vs American and Scotch whiskies, with people who know exactly what they’re talking about.

This allows you to put your newfound knowledge of the quality of Jameson’s to the test.

  The Whiskey Makers Experience

This tour is 90 minutes long and will teach you all you need to know about Jameson’s Original and Distiller’s Safe, Cooper’s Croze and Blender’s Dog, the three whiskeys in the Whiskey Makers Series.

The Whiskey Makers experience will have you brimming with knowledge about these drams and is worth it even if they are not your favourites. This is information that can be applied elsewhere in your Whiskey loving life.

The experience is taken by a Jameson Ambassador and you will learn how to taste and pull apart each different flavour in the Whiskey.

This is a tasting that allows you to get up close and personal with the drams in hand, and gives you a lesson that you can bring to every dram you ever have.

Tasting experience is a great way to build your palette and at Jameson, they give you expert guidance all the way.

This is also a really fun experience, and if you are a Jameson fan, will give you a great talking point the next time you order it!

Perhaps one of the most exciting parts of this tour is the chance to blend your own dram. This is a brilliant way to put your knowledge to the test and bring home a souvenir that is a bit more substantial than a postcard!

  The Whiskey Shakers Experience

This is a really exciting experience, and personally, I think it’s my favourite.

In the Whiskey Shakers Experience you will learn how to make the best tasting cocktails as well as learning about the history of them.

Guided by a Jameson Bartender, you are encouraged to get creative and make both tried and tasted cocktails and some that are crafted just for this experience.

The experience takes part in the Shakers’ Room where you will be provided with everything you need to make the finest cocktails.

With mixology on the rise everyone wants to be able to impress with their cocktail making skills, and this experience gives you the chance to learn some facts and some skills.

The experience ends with the chance to try Whiskey straight from the barrel in the Maturation House, a brilliant way to wrap up a day of fun and learning!

One thing's for sure, this is an experience that has been thoroughly thought through

From the laser etched JJ&S logo marque in the cocktail making tools, to the under-table coat hooks being brass Js, and the subtle design details that bring the minute details of the brand and Jameson story to life without shouting about it, are all just superb.

You still get to bottle your own whiskey too, and have a personalised whiskey labelled with your name or whatever you want too, only available at the distillery.

This is a phenomenal distillery experience, one that, for me, sets a new benchmark.

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The GreatDrams Top Ten Whiskies of 2016

Now that Christmas and New Year are done with, and I've had a few moments (literally only a few) to reflect on an awesome 2016, I thought I'd put together The GreatDrams Top Ten Whiskies of 2016 so you can see what I loved over the last twelve months. Make sure you let me know if you agree in the comments at the end.

These are in ALPHABETICAL particular order.

Ailsa Bay - £59.00 - Available here

The bottle design is stunning, the SPPM measure from Brian Kinsman, a new measure of 'sweet parts per million' and a gorgeous smokiness that is almost dangerously easy to drink makes this a no-brainer. It is NAS, but given the distillery started producing spirit in 2007, it does not take a genius to work out it is going to have components between around five and eight years old in its make-up. The stopper especially is awesome - I have a few of them now and play with them in my office, flinging them between my hands as they glide on the surface of my desk, and the bar!

Auchroisk 27 Year Old - Cadenheads - Unavailable to purchase

Out of nowhere, on the penultimate day of 2016, my dram of the year goes to this 27 year old, sherry matured single malt Auchroisk from Cadenheads. Simply incredible. The depth of character, rounded fruity character and impressive smokey brilliance of this beast is so fantastic I had to pull in a few favours to obtain myself a bottle as I was not privy to the initial sale, thanks to Tom of Tom's Whisky Reviews and Jason the Whisky Rover for coming through for me, truly appreciated.

Douglas Laing’s Single Grain Winter Warmers - £varies - Available here

I'm a sucker for single grain, really love the stuff and think it is probably the next big thing in Scotch as producers find decades-old product left over from blending recipes long gone and look to bottle them and ship them out as premium products... and I cannot wait. Always so smooth, soft, fruity, unassuming and gorgeous, you have to try the single grains from Douglas Laing.

Jameson Makers Series - ~€70 each - Available here

The Whiskey Maker Series: Distillers Safe, Coopers Croze, Blenders Dog. I’m mightily impressed with the Whiskey Makers Series. I think it delivers on something really special; Jameson whiskey expressions that show the personalities of the people involved in the production process.

As alluded to, this range is all about telling the stories of coopers, blenders and distillers through the liquid, all of the products have been created especially for the new range.

At the launch, Master Blender Billy Leighton took a moment to explain that the whiskies are brought about by each other’s personalities, as he sees it:

Brian & Distillers Safe are young and smooth.

Ger & Coopers Croze have been around a while.

Billy & Blenders Dog are suave, sophisticated, rounded and complex.

I think I see where he is going with this… in my view; they’re all great, and for different reasons.

Longmorn 23 Years Old - £1,400 - Available soon

I have often said that Longmorn is one of the most underrated whisky distilleries in Scotland; it gets good press, but not as much as some of its more famous neighbours garner. Stunning, beautiful, dry, fruity, caramel with heavy vanilla nose and palate. The palate was vibrant, juicy, mature, green apples, silky and all round brilliant with a super-long white peppery finish.

The packaging for the range is great, but the Longmorn 23 Year Old especially was impressive; the silver detailing, etching and heavy set stopper were a joy for a whisky packaging geek, all about the finishing touches.

The price is a bit inflated in truth, but if you park that and just enjoy the liquid it delivers all you want from Longmorn and much, much more.

Longrow 14 - Cadenheads - Unavailable to purchase

Similar to the Auchroisk, I missed out on this one, bought a sample off a friend, loved the smokey, fruity, bonfire-y notes and ended up buying it at the very next online whisky auction for £35 more than it went on sale, which, for the quality of the liquid and how simply brilliant it is, I'm ok with as it was released for £65 in the first place! I cannot put it any better than Mark of Malt-Review;

"This Longrow was bottled for the society late last year at 53.2% ABV. 600 bottles were available at something ridiculous like £65 each. Honestly, can you think of another distillery that releases limited editions as inexpensive as this? It’s spent its entire 14 years in a fresh Sherry Butt."

Redbreast Lustau Edition - £45.25 - Available here

I was gutted not to be available for the launch of this in Jerez, Spain, but that aside the whiskey itself is stunning; probably rocketing to one of my top three Irish whiskies of all time. Michael Cowman, resident GreatDrams Irish whiskey fanatic, explains the release:

"Redbreast Lustau is a Non – Age Statement single pot still initially aged in bourbon and sherry casks for a period between 9 and 12 years after which it spends a further year maturing in specially selected sherry butts at the bodegas Lustau.

The Bodegas Lustau is one of the most awarded sherry brands in the world, frequently scooping international awards and acclaim.This permanent edition to the Redbreast range is designed to showcase the quality of the casks used by Midleton. For anyone unfamiliar with the Redbreast range the influence of sherry casks is one of the defining characteristics and it’s being used to full effect for the purpose of the new Lustau edition. For drinkers looking for a delicately balanced whiskey with a heavy sherry influence then look no further."

The Dalmore Quintessence - £1,000 - Available here

Carrying a cool £1,000 price tag, The Dalmore Quintessence is clearly not a mass-market product, limited to an un-spcified number of bottles in the low hundreds, and having been bottled at 45% ABV to ensure the red wine flavour characteristics are not diminished through too much water being added, this is a very nice whisky indeed.

The colour was deep, burning gold wrapped in a light red hue. The nose brought about a plethora of wine and sweetness rounded off with a distinct burnt sugar note with hints of vanilla, dark fruits, juicy peaches and the classic chunky marmalade character of The Dalmore distillery’s signature style.

On the palate silky caramel notes shone through as the liquid turned velvety and creamy with marzipan notes, only a light alcohol feeling and a chocolate orange character developed before being replaced by white peppers and spice.

The Glenlivet Cipher - £110 - Available here

The Glenlivet Cipher has as little information as is legally possible, all we know is that the specific cask combinations have never been used by The Glenlivet before and that the end result is super-smooth with the distiller’s quintessential fruity notes.

My tasting notes for The Glenlivet Cipher (there are no official ones as yet). Nose: Lots of honey, smooth, hints of spice – likely ginger as that came through more on the palate. Palate: Creamy, smooth, ginger, fresh apples, orchard fruits – potentially citrus and more honey is definitely present. Finish: Fun, medium length, sweet and fruity.

The Macallan Edition 02 - £77.95 - Available here. 

Definitely one of the best releases from The Macallan for a few years, both this and its Edition 01 predecessor are fantastic and moreish, like the quality I expect from old releases from The Macallan. Robust flavours, interesting stories and an all-round enjoyable whisky experience; not forced, like a few recent releases * cough * 1824 Series *cough *.

SO there you have it, my top ten whiskies of 2016, what were yours? Do you agree?

I want to thank the brands involved for inviting me to launches, providing samples and always being on hand for information and interviews; truly appreciated and look forward to another blockbuster year ahead... bring on 2017!

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