Question About Irish Whiskey

[shanez]

I really like Jack Ryan 12 year. The flavor always reminds me of peach marmalade and is very smooth. I actually prefer it to the 15 year version.
I've got a couple different versions of Redbreast which are good but I don't think they lived up to the hype I was reading about them.
I've got a bottle of Yellow Spot I got for Christmas but haven't tried it yet. Maybe tonight...
I think I might have to track down a bottle of the John Lane. Can't go wrong with sherry cask.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I think I might have to track down a bottle of the John Lane. Can't go wrong with sherry cask.

If you like sherry cask try tyrconnell's sherry cask. Their other cask aged options are great as well (Madeira and Port). Their baseline offering isn't the best whiskey, but their cask aged offerings are top notch.
Or you could just go full sherry geek and start drinking speyside/lowland scotches

 

[aquadoc]

BTW, every one has an opinion but here is a decent discussion of Irish Whiskey.

Irish Whiskey Course

 

[instymp]

" Alaskanpiper..Now, back to my Laphroiag....
Mmmmmm......Peat........"
Yup, nothing peatier or smokier than that, that I have tried. Truly unique & delicious.

One of my favs.

Drink an Irish whiskey most nights and I can't recall peat in any of them.

Just grabbed a Bushmills to make sure I wasn't lying. nope.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Yup, nothing peatier or smokier than that, that I have tried. Truly unique & delicious.

If you haven't tried any whiskey from Ardbeg, they are on par with Laphroaig as far as peat content, if not slightly peatier, and make delicious whiskeys, many of which are cask strength. Lagavulin is also vey similar as far as peat ppm goes, both easy to find.
If you want one that blows them all out of the water, there is also Bruichladdich Octomore. There are various batches but if I remember correctly they are usually +/- 4X the ppm peat content as the Islay bombs like Laphroaig and usually in the neighborhood of 60% abv. The bottles are pretty pricey though, usually $130-200 USD. It is a monster, and IMO, not as refined as the above mentioned offerings. Definitely wouldn't offer it to anyone who didn't know exactly what they were drinking, or the shock alone may choke them up, hahaha.
Along with those there are many other great peat driven offerings, my personal fav bowmore, caol ila, bruichladdich port charlotte, Kilchoman, etc. etc.
As mentioned above the only readily available irish whiskey (at least here) I know of that is peated is Connemara.

 

[shanez]

Not readily available, but if you can find them West Cork has a charred cask series called Glengarrif which features a bog oak charred cask bottling and a peat charred cask bottling.

 

[irishearl]

I'd tried few to no single malt scotches in my life as the pricing was usually too steep for it to be a regular tipple.