May 18, 2023

Join me for My Tasting Chat with Barry Chandler in the iconic Hi-B Bar in the heart of Cork City centre, across from the GPO, above a pharmacy. I asked Barry to do a tasting for the Cork Whiskey Society in April 2023 and got permission to record it. Barry has been releasing private bottlings through his Stories & Sips...

May 10, 2023

I spent a couple of days last February 2023, in bitter freezing conditions, above in Killowen Distillery on work experience. Brendan Carty and his distiller Hugh allowed me to get stuck into every aspect of production that week. But on the last day, as we were falling upwards towards the distillery along the...

May 1, 2023

Join me for My Unicorn Whiskey Garden Chat with Dan Pennington, Paul Costello and Conor Ryan from Pearse Lyons Distillery & Cork Whiskey Society.

I was lucky enough to be gifted a few samples and I saved them up to share with the lads in my back garden. They ranged from brand new whiskeys to a couple of decades old....