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Ah yes, I'm sure it's the best selling Irish.

Someone told me that Jamesons was catholic and Bushmills protestant?

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inasmuch as Jameson was distilled in Dublin (now Cork) and Bushmills, as ever, outside Belfast, then yes.

Jameson lost the crown of best selling whiskey a while ago. American whiskeys currently hold the top two spots (Jack Daniel's and Jim Beam) with a Canadian brand in third place (Crown Royal). Jameson is fourth, quite a long way ahead of fifth-placed Suntory.

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by Canadian standards it might be "just outside" by NI standards it's halfway across the ******* country*!



* was going to put world!

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I was so disgusted to find James Bond asking for a Crown Royal in the Deaver novel I nearly wrote in from Tunbridge Wells.

If it was Forty Creek I might have more tolerance for the insipid prose.

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As global brands I don't think either of those are close to the Top

as the Sprits market is driven by consumption mainly in Asia, they drive what's top

A list of the Top Sprits consumed in the world

1.Jinro (soju) - 61.38 m cases
2.Smirnoff (vodka) - 24.70m cases
3.Lotte Liquor (soju) - 23.90m cases
4.Emperador (brandy) - 20.10m cases
5.Bacardi (rum) - 19.56m cases
6.Tanduay (rum) -18.71m cases
7.Pirassunga 51 (cachaca) - 18.60m cases
8.Johnnie Walker (Scotch whisky) - 18.00m cases
9.Officer's Choice (Indian whisky) - 16.53m cases
10.McDowell's No.1 (Indian whisky) - 16.08m cases
11.Bagpiper (Indian whisky) - 15.98m cases
12.McDowell's No.1 Celebration (rum) - 15.63m cases
13.Red Star Er Guo Tou (baijiu) - 13.68m cases
14.Royal Stag (Indian whisky) - 12.49m cases
15.McDowell's No.1 (Indian brandy) - 11.72m cases
16.Absolut (vodka) - 11.21m cases
17.Old Tavern (Indian whisky) - 11.07m cases
18. Original Choice (Indian whisky) - 10.77m cases
19. Jack Daniel's (US whiskey) - 10.58m cases
20.Pitu (cachaca) - 10.49m case

With Soju massively out in front and Jonny Walker is up there at 8, followed By Indian Whiskey at 9,10,11 brands that I have never heard of

But the first American Whiskey is JD

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If I recall correctly indian whisky isn't even whisky in our sense of the world- its rum.

As such I can say it blends pretty well with coke.

Have to say the bottle of "six shooter" indian rum I was gifted once got promptly regifted; the ex-works price of 99c a bottle put me off.

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Interesting - thanks Mike. Of course, I bow to your much greater knowledge in this sphere. I got my list from a quick google that led me to The world’s best-selling world whisky brands - purports to be 2013 whisky consumption figures but I must confess I was surprised to see no Johnnie Walker on there. And I'd forgotten all about the Indian whisky brands - they're massively popular.

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Well fair enough. I should have known better - especially having visited the old distillery museum thingy. A brisk hike from the Giants' Causeway, I seem to recall, and quite a long way from Belfast. Apologies to any resident Norn Iron people :)

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I have a feeling Johnnies Walker is the world's most advertised brand, in a desperate effort to retain the market share it once had. ;)

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In 1975 a friend and I had a bottle of Taj Rum (white) from India and it was absolutely lethal, a few drinks and I was sick all night. Several days later he drank about 1/3 of the bottle and spent the next 2 days in bed shaking and puking. It tasted like running shoes, possibly the worst commercially produced liquor I've ever had. It had a picture of the Taj Mahal on the label; I can't find it on the internet so mercifully it's probably not being made anymore.

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I assumed it was a Whisky- Whiskey thing.

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After some Chelsea Gin (Nigeria) I thought the pressure building in my eyeballs was going to make the explode, which was a bit of a moment. And that's not even a discount brand over there; I didn't try the dropkick gin made from industrial ethanol, water and imported flavourant.

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I had a colleague who frequently travelled to china

we've spent a few afternoons working through Posh Chinese liquor and also struggling through the common domestic stuff

Some tasting like it was meant for a lawnmower

It interesting to taste outside of our comfort zones :unsure:

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probably safer than half the locally distilled stuff :fingerscrossed:

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Years ago I attended a Mongolian buffet at the U of R Faculty Club prepared by an exchange professor (Ho Chin) and 2 of his students from Mongolia who were at the First Nations University and we had Mao Tai and ginseng whiskey and it tasted like it had hair on it. After a few shots you could hardly tell though.