Bushmills offering a free Irish Whiskey to every American in 2021

Irish Post ^ | 1/3/2021 | Jack Beresford

[hinckley buzzard]

Ii have noticed, ladies lean toward Bushmills, men tend toward Jamie.

[JimRed]

I have never cared for Jamesons. I drink Bush Black.

I like 'em both...occasionally. But I prefer Jamesons, because it's IRISH. Bushmills is English whisky (the political divisions are still there).

[JimRed]

Tullamore Dew is good too.

[JimRed]

Irish whiskey historically uses both malted and un-malted barley. Irish whiskey is often triple-distilled, which can result in a lighter flavor than scotch.

Scotch without the smoke.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Bushmills has been around since 1608. Cromwell didn’t invade til 1620 so I think we can call Bushmills old Irish.

Jameson didn’t come on the scene til 1780 and John Jameson was from Scotland and his Scottish wife was a Haig. One of the largest distiller families in Scotland.

That being said Jameson certainly has a larger market share than Bushmills.

[Charles Martel]

Scotch without the smoke.

Roughly, yes - but I was surprised to discover that there are a few peated Irish whiskies out there. Also, although many people associate that peat smoke smell and taste with scotch, less than half of the single-malt scotches today are peated. The heaviest peat flavors are generally found in Islay and other coastal scotches (there's a "Scotch flavor map" online that explains the flavor spectrum).

There are a few scotch whiskies from the Lowlands region that are very similar to the Irish style (deliberately so, just to be different).

[ops33]

Some years ago we toured the Bushmills distillery in Ireland. They age their whiskey is used oak barrels, barrels they import from Portugal, barrels that had been used to age Port wine.