Triple Distilled Communications
A blog about whiskey and other matters of interest
Author: Bill Linnane
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I’m not sure that many people in Midleton are aware that one of the world’s most significant distilleries lies just outside the town. It sits there on the skyline, silently creating and maintaining the bulk of the world supply of Irish whiskey. Of course, the local lack of understanding isn’t helped by the fact that…
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Some terrible photos I took during Spirit Of Speyside 2015, chucked through that editing software Google gave away for free recently.
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The whiskey writer Fionnán O’Connor has a term he uses to describe the world of whiskey marketing – the ‘theatre of heritage’. It encapsulates the tragic machinations of marketing firms as they struggle to place their brand origins within ‘ye olde days of yore’, or pin Brand X to an ancient narrative or the name of someone…
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I’ve written a bit about my ancestor, Colonel Jim Fitzmaurice, in the past. He was a fascinating character, making aviation history, fighting in the Somme, then slowly fading into obscurity and near-poverty towards the end of his life. My dad always tells stories about him, his plummy RAF accent and how he stuck out like…
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The best interviews are the ones carried out over a period of time, across a series of encounters. A mutual understanding is achieved, a certain level of trust established – a basic human connection made (the incredible R. Kelly piece in GQ recently is a good example). I had intended to try and interview Mark Reynier…
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As a species, we have become completely estranged from what we consume. Over the last few centuries we have transitioned from living on locally grown, native foods to barely being able to tell what we are eating, where it came from and what has been done to it. The quote that inspired William S Burroughs’s…
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More moves in IDL: Dublin, May 12th, 2016 – Irish Distillers, Ireland’s leading supplier of spirits and wines and producer of the world’s most well-known and successful Irish whiskeys, has today announced the appointment of Louise Ryan as Managing Director – Ireland. Louise’s appointment will come into effect from 1st July. Louise will be a…
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With all the movement across the Irish Distillers stable – Powers rebrand and expansion, Crested rebrand, rumours of Jameson 12 and 18 making way for NAS releases – I had been wondering when they were going to get around to doing something with Paddy. Well; IRISH DISTILLERS ENTERS INTO EXCLUSIVE NEGOTIATIONS WITH SAZERAC FOR THE…
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There is a grievously mistaken notion abroad that Dublin, and Dublin alone, is the home of the best Irish whisky. We fear, moreover, that this heresy has been encouraged, in no small degree, by the brilliant pamphleteering of our greatest living journalistic writer, George Augustus Sala. At least one county in Ireland (Cork) owes him…