World Spirits

Ireland

4 topics — topics in this category.

Irish Whiskey

The smooth original: Irish whiskey is famous for triple distillation and an easy, honeyed charm that made it the world's best-selling whiskey a century ago — and it is roaring back. Ingredients: malted and unmalted barle…

Irish Coffee

A hug in a glass: hot coffee and Irish whiskey under a collar of cold cream, invented on a freezing night to warm stranded travelers. Ingredients: hot strong coffee, Irish whiskey, brown sugar, lightly whipped heavy crea…

Irish Stout

Ireland's black gold: a dry stout of roasted barley and nitrogen bubbles, crowned with a dome of cream-white foam — Guinness is its global ambassador. Ingredients: water, malted barley, roasted unmalted barley (the sourc…

Poitín

Poitín: Ireland's legendary illicit spirit — a potent farmhouse distillate from barley or potatoes, banned for 300 years and now legally revived as a craft badge. Origins: distilled in Irish farmhouses since at least the…

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