Triple Distilled Communications
A blog about whiskey and other matters of interest
Author: Bill Linnane
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Ah Whiskey Live Dublin: I find it hard to know who I feel more sorry for – me or the vendors. They have to stand there for hours, pouring dram after dram for tedious bore after tedious bore, smiling and nodding as people like me refuse to take ‘NAS’ for an answer. It must be…
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It’s hard to know what makes a good pub. How does any publican connect with the sweet spot where good location, welcoming ambience and a decent pint intersect? If you were stuck for an answer here in Cork, Benny McCabe would be a good man to ask. Over the last two decades he has managed…
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I almost drowned when I was eight. It was at Inchydoney beach, near where my dad is from; I was in the water, close to the shore. I took a step back and fell into a channel and disappeared under the water. I can still remember it – the blue haze of the water down…
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A new Powers has been released in celebration of a pub I have never been in. Details: Powers Irish Whiskey and the iconic The Long Hall celebrate the pub’s 250th Anniversary with an exclusive, limited edition Single Cask Release. The Long Hall on South Great George’s St is one of Dublin’s oldest and most…
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Many of these photos are like my recollections of the event – blurry. In my defence, I damaged the lens lock on the way in so it’s not just I was outta me gourd. Great day, will do a rambling incoherent post on it at some stage.
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Places do not die as people do, but they often changed so fundamentally that little is left of what once they were. – William Trevor, in the introduction to his memoir, Excursions in the Real World. Although born in Mitchelstown in north Cork, William Trevor had a nomadic childhood. The son of a bank…
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A quick post about The Irish Whiskey Awards: All of my internet friends were there, and yet somehow my e-vite failed to make it through the firewall on my dial-up Windows 95 PC. Ah well, I couldn’t have gone anyway as I had a previous engagement – sitting watching it unfold on Twitter whilst crying. Here…