Local whiskeys
Jan 17th 2010, 3:31 am
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Local whiskeys
What are the top whisekys brewed in Australia which one shouldn't miss? Not necessarily expensive ones but smooth ones
Jan 17th 2010, 8:34 am
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Re: Local whiskeys
Thanks. So we don't have local likes of Jack Daniels, Teachers,etc
Jan 17th 2010, 9:04 am
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Jan 17th 2010, 11:15 am
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Re: Local whiskeys
Larks distillery in Tassie do some nice ones
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Re: Local whiskeys
"The debate between the Scots and the Irish over the whisky title goes back to the Dark Ages. The first legal distillery in the British Isles was in Northern Ireland. Bushmills, on the northern coast of Ireland, has had a license to distil since 1608, the reign of King James I of England and VI of Scotland, who also laid claim to Ireland.
The identity of the first distiller will always be unclear, but it is known that when Henry II of England paid an uninvited visit to Ireland in 1174, he recorded the use of aquae vitae. In 1926, Sir Robert Savage, the lord of Bushmills, was using aquae vitae to allegedly numb the minds of his troops while they entered battle, while in The Annals of The Four Masters in 1405, Richard Magrenell, chieftain in Moyntyrolas, died of "a surfeit of aquae vitae".
As I said, we perfected it.
The identity of the first distiller will always be unclear, but it is known that when Henry II of England paid an uninvited visit to Ireland in 1174, he recorded the use of aquae vitae. In 1926, Sir Robert Savage, the lord of Bushmills, was using aquae vitae to allegedly numb the minds of his troops while they entered battle, while in The Annals of The Four Masters in 1405, Richard Magrenell, chieftain in Moyntyrolas, died of "a surfeit of aquae vitae".
As I said, we perfected it.
