Season Six

When it came to illicit distilling in the early 1800's, no place held a candle to the Barony of Inishowen.

A near death experience almost changes the course of whiskey!

A pivital time in Irish history and the ghosts it produced.

Who helped bring Irish Whiskey to the world? It wasn't Jameson, Power's or Roe

John Quincy Adams' obsession with weights and measures and the impact on Irish whiskey.

Time to dive into this fascination with being the first or oldest. Can we really determine which Irish whiskey distillery is the oldest?

Where would Irish whiskey be without the excise? I'll take a deep dive into a famous quote and how Irish distillers creatively avoided taxes.

A navy strength gin based on a battle off the coast of Copeland Island in the North Channel inspires an episode about a famous, but not well known patriot/pirate.

Many Kentucky and Tennessee distilleries give credit to the Scots-Irish for bringing us their whiskey. Who were the Scots-Irish and what impact did they have on American whiskey?

Into Northern Ireland, I leave one of the largest distilleries for one of the smallest. Yet both holding strong reputations.

That pesky "e" in whiskey. Where did it come from? Join me for an investigation and as I taste two historic drams at John Teeling's Great Northern Distillery.

Did the 1785 Irish Malt Tax lead to the creation of Old Irish Pure Pot Still whiskey?