Two of Ireland’s leading artisan drinks-producing families, Walsh Whiskey of Carlow and Dick Mack’s of Dingle, have collaborated to create a once-off, super-premium Irish whiskey, finished in a rare craft beer cask. The Irishman – The Harvest Brown Berry Beer Cask Finish is a triple-distilled, non-chill filtered, marriage of aged Single Malt and Single Pot Still Irish…
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New entrant, Casamigos, is the fastest-growing spirits brand, almost tripling in value since last year and is now valued at US$450 million, up 177 percent. After its sale to the UK-based multinational alcohol company Diageo in 2017 for around US$1 billion, George Clooney’s brand continues to perform strongly with tequila sales skyrocketing globally. Not…
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Proposals for an expanded whisky storage and warehousing development in Glenrothes are set to go out for public consultation, reports Scottish Construction Now. Scotch Whisky Investments (SWI) is bringing forward proposals for the delivery of single malt Scotch whisky storage warehouses with associated bottling, cooperage, and office facilities in Glenrothes. The international business, which is…
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Organic Architects can chalk another one up; its plans to transform a 200-year-old mill in Castletown into a destination whisky distillery have been given the green light. Dunnet Bay Distillers has submitted an application to Highland Council requesting permission to refurbish Castletown Mill and surrounding land, near the company’s headquarters. The restoration and fit-out of…
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Some farmers in the UK are experiencing their earliest ever barley harvest, with winter malting barley coming in at what has been budgeted for, according to Farmers Weekly. With the current dry, hot days in July, farmers are quickly harvesting as much as they can of the Electrum winter barley. Spring barley, however, is not…
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Scotland’s Ardbeg Distillery has donated £1 million pounds to the local community for their “patience” after the world record sale of a single malt cask to a mystery collector. Just days earlier, a new record for the most expensive cask of whiskey sold had been set when a one-of-a-kind 1975 cask of Ardbeg Islay single malt Scotch…
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Beckie Sullivan has been appointed the UK national brand ambassador for Courvoisier, announced Edrington UK. Sullivan has worked at some of the world’s top 50 bars within and outside of London; these include Lyaness, Baccarat Bar in Harrods, and 1806 in Melbourne. Her latest role was with Bar With Shapes for a Name, Hackney’s highly…
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Shakespeare Distillery has launched a brand-new Citrus Vodka which is now available as a limited-edition Distillery Special. Having successfully distilled gin for the last six years and more recently their own ‘Jester’ brand of White & Spiced British Rum, this is the first time the team at the independent artisan spirit producer in Stratford-upon-Avon have…
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Premium mixer brand, The London Essence Co., has launched a new crafted lemonade mixer, which joins the brand’s existing range of elegant tonics. Available now, the new premium mixer will be available to on-trade stockists to purchase across key national and regional wholesalers in Great Britain, as well as on www.londonessenceco.com London Essence said it…
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USA CODO Design continues to share for free online its advice on marketing and branding. Although CODO works primarily with craft distilleries, all of their advice applies to craft distilleries as well. While much of CODO’s advice is for established breweries looking at rebranding themselves, in the last article from the design company CODO takes…
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