{"id":8379,"date":"2017-08-22T07:48:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:48:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T06:48:16","slug":"irish-whiskey-inst-smooth-beverage-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/irish-whiskey-inst-smooth-beverage-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Whiskey ins’t only that “smooth” beverage you heard of"},"content":{"rendered":"

When listening to many whisky tasting hosts trying to explain whisky to a crowd of newcomers, there’s always this point where they’ll take a shortcut. I feel that popularization, while needed I reckon, may sometimes be at least misleading, at worst dangerous – as you’ll be the first one to complain afterwards when reading bullshit articles on Vice. It’s easy to convey myths and clich\u00e9s that you’re fighting against the rest of the time with your peers, oh I’m not blaming you at all, I’m not blaming anyone in fact – brands, ambassadors, marketing departments, consumers, media… We all participate in this to some extent. We’ve all at least once been guilty of “yeah yeah dude Islay is peaty, Ireland is smooth and French is too young”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Still, don’t you think using the same points to define Scotch and Irish Whiskey (for instance<\/em>) today as the ones you used 10 years ago is still relevant? The answer is in the question.<\/p>\n

Well guys, guess what, it’s 2017, the world is going mad, people are putting socks in their sandals without being sent to jail and Irish Whiskey cannot be define by its “smooth and easy-to-drink” character anymore. I won’t get back on the recent industry revival because you’ve already read 15489789 articles on that matter (and if you haven’t, Google is a faithful friend)<\/em>, but big things are happening in Ireland those days and even more exciting things will happen in the coming years – so why not starting to adapt our discourses ?<\/p>\n

No, all Irish whiskey isn’t triple distilled and unpeated (oh hey, hello Connemara!)<\/em>. To illustrate my point, here’s a short list of Irish whiskeys that definitely aren’t falling into the usual clich\u00e9s (AKA Boring whiskies):<\/p>\n