Whiskey Chats – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Join me for My Bushmills Chat with Les Duthie.

Les Duthie was the Bushmills Distillery manager from the early 70's until the mid-90's.

He is 92 yrs young and has a memory like an elephant. I went and sat with Les at his home in Bushmills village, a mere stone's throw from Bushmills Distillery.

He grew up in Glasgow and entered into the drinks industry in the 1950's, where he spent his entire career, ending up as Distillery Manager in Bushmills during a pivotal point in Irish history - The Troubles.

This was a privilege to sit and chat with Les and I expect you will learn as much from him as I did.

Thank you to his daughter Shirley and also to Adrian McLoughlin from The Harbourview Whiskey Hotel in Carnlough for facilitating this chat.

This episode of the podcast is sponsored by:

• www.boanndistillery.ie
• www.killowendistillery.com 

Don't forget to sign up to my Patreon channel for early access episodes and more, for a few euros a month and help me deliver the best podcasts to you.

https://www.patreon.com/whiskeychatspodcast

I really hope you enjoy listening in to our chat.

Laurie

Join me for My Pub Chat with Stephen Magennis from Echlinville Distillery.

I met up with Steve in The Duke of York pub in Belfast city centre, truly one of the best decorated pubs on the island. Just amazing place to sit.

We took up residence in the wee snug, down the back, an chatted about Stephen's time working in the whiskey industry for nearly 20yrs. Steve has a really good perspective of where we were before the resurgance of Irish Whiskey and where we are now. He is not afraid to speak the hard truths too and it made this chat all the more interesting.

This episode of the podcast is sponsored by:

• www.boanndistillery.ie
• www.killowendistillery.com 

Don't forget to sign up to my Patreon channel for early access episodes and more, for a few euros a month and help me deliver the best podcasts to you.

https://www.patreon.com/whiskeychatspodcast

I really hope you enjoy listening in to our chat.

Laurie

Join me for My Garden Chat with Dean Fitzgerald & Cathal O'Brien part 2.

Dean Fitzgerald runs the Whiskey Appreciation Society pages on Social Media platforms. He does a great job bringing people along his whiskey journey and helping to promote Irish brands. I urge you to check out his profiles and give him a follow.

Cathal O'Brien has been repping West Cork Distillers for a decade now. Cathal originally hails from Galway, but you wouldn't know it with the pride that he has for West Cork.

This is part 2 of our chat where I invited the 2 lads up to my garden and I had a ball talking all things spirits and sharing stories.

We ended up cracking open and sharing some really fabulous bottles on part 2 of our Garden Chat.

This episode of the podcast is sponsored by:

• www.boanndistillery.ie
• www.killowendistillery.com 

Don't forget to sign up to my Patreon channel for early access episodes and more, for a few euros a month and help me deliver the best podcasts to you.

https://www.patreon.com/whiskeychatspodcast

I really hope you enjoy listening in to our chat.

Laurie

Join me for part 2 of My 100th Episode Online Warehouse Tasting, that I did on YouTube. The video is up on my Youtube channel, but this is it in bitesize audio.

https://youtu.be/7BevJJsDY2k

Thanks to all the contributors:

Jarlath from Echlinville Distillery

David from Shortcross Whiskey

Peter from Blackwater Distillery

Brendan from Killowen

James from Sliabh Liag

Daithi from WD O'Connell

Paul Costello & JP O'Riordan with the few tunes

Have a listen in on the chat, Slainte!

Join me for My Tasmanian Whisky Chat with John Halton.

John Holtan and I hosted a Tasmanian Whiskey tasting up on Belfast Whiskey Week in July 2022. The quality of the whiskys blew me away, so I grabbed John for a chat in The Europa Hotel at 10am the next morning before I left Belfast.

The affinity that alot of Tasmanians feel towards their Irish heritage was an real eye opener, given the history of Irish 'convicts' being transported to Van Diemans Land, as it was then known, by the British.

I know you'll enjoy this chat, Slainte!

Join me for My 2nd Chat with Ralfy.

Ralfy kindly joined me again for a fantastic, meandering chat about silent Scottish distilleries, the looming cask crisis and so much more. 

Ralfy Mitchell has been entertaining and educating whisky fans throughout the world, from the comfort of his wee bothy for 12 years. I'd encourage you to check out his YouTube and Patreon channels. You won't be dissappointed.

https://www.patreon.com/ralfy/

https://www.youtube.com/c/ralfystuff

Have a listen in on our chat, Slainte!

Join me for My Tiny Tipple Garden Blind Tasting Chat part 1. 

JP O'Riordan, Dan Pennington & Kevin Murphy were gifted a blind sample box from Ivor O'Loughlin  from www.tinytipple.com .

We had great craic trying to figure out the 5 spirits, with limited success!

This is part 1. Part 2 will be released exclusively on my Patreon channel, where I give subscribers more content & exclusive offers for a few quid a month. Check it out: https://www.patreon.com/whiskeychatspodcast

Drops of the night:

Now that would be spoiling the fun!

But we started of with a Killahora Orchards Perry 2019 and an Off The Cuffe Honey and Ginger RTD can.

https://www.killahoraorchards.ie/cellar/

https://www.offthecuffe.info/shop

Have a listen in on our chat, Slainte!

Join me for My Poitin Now Chat with Fran Leavey.

Francis is organising Ireland's first Poitin Festival called Poitin Now in Dublin on 18th & 19th November 2022.

Poitin is one of Ireland's native spirits and is a source of growing national pride as a fantastic link to Ireland's rich distilling history and I had a fantastic chat with Fran. 

Drops of the night:

Teeling Spirit of Dublin Poitin

Bulcan potcheen 50% peated oats 50% peated malt from Killowen 

Mulroy Bay Potcheen

Mulroy Bay Port'N'Peat potcheen

Limerick Poitin from someone

Monaghan Potcheen from someone

Belfast Coffee with Ban Potcheen

Have a listen in on our chat, Slainte!

Join me for My Whiskey Live Dublin 2022 Chat.

Ally Alpine and Katie Gibson from Celtic Whiskey Shop, who organised this event, kindly allowed me to record a podcast on the saturday afternoon session. 

I had a ball chatting to everyone - 33 people in all. Thanks to everyone who gave me a few minutes to have a chat.

Have a listen in on our chat, Slainte!

Join me for my Chat with John Quinn, Global Brand Ambassador for Tullamore DEW and current Chairman of the Irish Whiskey Association.

John has been a Titan of Irish Whiskey for many decades promoting the sector on the international stage, which he has done with huge passion. 

He has represented Tullamore DEW since it was an Irish Distillers brand and has spent most of his career building Tully to what it is today.

Drops of the night:

Tullamore DEW 14yr old

Tullamore DEW Phoenix

Jameson Crested 10 1970's

Powers Friends of Midleton SC CS release

Guinness Export

Mulroy Bay Potcheen

Have a listen in on our chat, Slainte!