This whiskey is made predominately from local unmalted barley and is aged in our used Bourbon and Rye barrels giving it a smooth, sweet flavor profile (much like an Irish Whiskey). McKenzie Pure Pot Still Whiskey is bottled at 80 proof.How about that? American craft distillers continue to try new things, put their twist on them. Gotta like that. Check these guys out, and say hi.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Finger Lakes Distilling goes Irish
Very interesting: in what I think is a first (which probably means it isn't, but you try keeping up with every new craft distiller!), Finger Lakes Distilling is releasing a "pure pot still whiskey" on Black Friday. I checked, and yes, they mean a whiskey with a mashbill of malted and unmalted barley, like Midleton uses in Redbreast and blends into Jameson.
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I recently bought my father a bottle of Green Spot, a limited edition pure pot still Irish whisky made at Midleton for Mitchell & Son Wine Merchants.
I bought it principally for the name (he's Dr Mitchell and I'm his son) but it was really very nice, perhaps even my favourite Irish whiskey after preferring Powers for many years. Redbreast's a good one too.
Nick
Green Spot's delicious, Nick, and your father's a lucky man.
Another reason to visit is the beautiful view they have over Seneca Lake.
Ah Green Spot. Stone cold classic.
The Irish distilleries have just dropped "pure pot still", however. "Single pot still" is the new designation.
Indeed; and I'm embarrassed to say that it's probably because of U.S. regulations..
If it's the US market that's driving the current boom in Irish whiskey variety and innovation, you can call it "East-Kentucky Bourbon" for all I care.
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