Science is something of a dirty word in the whiskey business. Consider the life and work of Aeneas Coffey. After risking life and limb as a gauger, he applied all he knew about distilling (and a lot of what Scots inventor Robert Stein knew) to a new type of still. It was cleaner and more […]
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Perrier’s Water and Irish Coffey
In The Untouchables, a journalist asks Prohibition enforcer Elliot Ness what he will do if the American government goes ahead with plans to repeal their anti-drink laws. ‘I think I’ll have a drink’ is his pithy reply. Calais-born and Dublin raised Aeneas Coffey – the scourge of the distilling trade in Ireland – went one better when he […]
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