Many centuries ago some irish monks went
to the Middle East. There they saw the process of
destillating alcohol using an alambic. When they returned to Ireland, they
modified this process and created a new alcoholic drink, with a different
taste. They called it “uisce beatha” that means the water of
life.
In the year 1780 John Jameson founded his own distillery in the centre of Dublin. In the very beginning there was a kind of fight between Mr Jameson and other whisky producers from Cork. This rivalry lasted nearly two centuries until the Jameson distillery and the Cork distillery joined into the Irish Distillers Group in 1966.
The whisky is very important in these countries. Irish whisky has a strong rival: scotish whisky. That’s why the process is very different. Jameson Irish whisky is produced from a mixture of malted and unmalted Irish barley.The barley is then dried en a closed kiln to preserve its clean malty flavours.
Jameson Distillery produces different
types of whisky, all of them very importants and famous. Now we are going
to see some of them:
Jameson irish whisky
Yellow-gold hue.
Delicate floral aromas with grainy notes and heat. Light-bodied, very
smooth and clean, with a touch of astringency on the finish betraying the
grain character.
Jameson 1780 irish whisky
Deep golden-amber hue. Rich woody
aromas. Full-bodied, with rich brown spice flavours and bourbon like
sweetness through the finish. A rich, mature and mellow
style.
Jameson gold irish whisky
Jameson 15 year pot
still
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