Whiskey Chats

Join me for My Chat with Bill Linnane, Ireland's Whiskey Journalist and blogger. Bill's dark humour and self depreciatingly honest style of writing always leaves me giggling and wanting more. His carefully researched articles on whiskey are always fascinating and I've wanted to sit for a chat for a while now.  So when Bill, not Billy, invited me down to his Midleton pad, I jumped at the chance. Su...

Join me for My Chat with Conor Ryan from Pearse Lyons Distillery & The Folk House Bar in Kinsale. We settled in for a chat on Zoom, on a wet & windy November evening, with Storm Aidan 'raging' outside. Conor's depth of knowledge and enthusiasm always makes for great conversation and our chat was no different.  Subscribe to my Patreon for extra content and 24hr early access episodes. Patreon: https...

Join me for My Chat with Dave O'Connell, owner of #SundayNightSup on Twitter & Powers Whiskey collector extraordinaire. There's not much gets past Dave when he's speaking with passion about Powers Whiskey & we had a great chat about the brand, and alot more besides. Subscribe to my Patreon for extra content and 24hr early access episodes. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whiskeychatspodcast My dro...

Join me for My Chat with Mark Lonergan from The Shelbourne Bar in Cork, one of Ireland's iconic whiskey bars. I called in for a socially-distanced chat during Ireland's lvl 5 Covid lockdown, to find out how Mark & the owner of The Shelbourne, Philip Gillivan, are diversifying the business during this period of closure.  Mark and I, being kindred whiskey nerd spirits, inevitably had a great ramblin...

Join me for My Chat with my Bottleshare Group - JP O'Riordan, Alan Corcoran, Aidan McGovern, Dylan Coakley, John Coomey & Matt Kelleher.  I believe everyone should be in a bottle-share group, it's a great way to share a bottle of whiskey with friends, maybe even stretching to an expensive bottle, taking the opportunity to share the cost & experience. Have a listen in on how we have done it and hop...

Join me for My Chat with Jarlath Watson from Echlinville Distillery. I called up for a visit and had a great chat with Jarlath about Echlinville & the iconic Belfast whiskey brand Dunvilles, that they are releasing finished whiskey under. With the recently announced multi-million pound investment and expansion of the distillery & visitor centre, things are only looking up for Echlinville. https://...

Join me for My Chat with Cyril Downes, Tony O'Neill & Dermot Morrissey, the 3 founding members from the BMWA Club in Mother Macs Pub in Limerick. 15 friends meet up monthly in Mother Macs bar after reading a book, listening to an album or podcast and share a whiskey, to discuss and review that month's selections.  Have a listen in on our chat, Sláinte.

Join me for My Chat with Paul Corbett, head distiller with Clonakilty Distillery. Myself and my buddy Aidan McGovern headed down to Clonakilty for a behind the scenes tour where Head Distiller Paul Corbett brought us through the entire whiskey making process. Brilliant.....!!! Have a listen in, Sláinte.

Join me for Part 2 of My Garden Chat tasting the new beer cask finished Clonakilty whiskeys that are being released in the US.......but there will be some available at the Distillery Shop and the online store:   https://clonakiltydistillery.digitickets.co.uk/category/27320?navItem=167549 My buddies JP O'Riordan, Dan Pennington & Aidan McGovern joined me for a chat. Drops of the night:  Clonakilty...

Join me for Part 1 of My Garden Chat tasting the new beer cask finished Clonakilty whiskeys that are being released in the US.......but there will be some available at the Distillery Shop and the online store:   https://clonakiltydistillery.digitickets.co.uk/category/27320?navItem=167549 My buddies JP O'Riordan, Dan Pennington & Aidan McGovern joined me for a chat. Have a listen in, Sláinte.

Join me for My Chat with WhiskyJason aka Jason Stover. I have enjoyed watching Jason's whisky reviews on YouTube every Monday, Wednesday & Friday and joined him for a LiveStream on his channel. This is the podcast we recorded. Check out his whisky review channel on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHGSDNjDyhBBO6XpF3SqYOA Have a listen in on our chat, Sláinte.

Join me for My Chat with Anthony Sheehy from Irish Whiskey Auctions. I visited him in his HQ in Dundalk and he showed me around, where I got to see and handle some very rare bottles of Irish Whiskey.  Check out their monthly auctions on: www.irishwhiskeyauctions.ie Have a listen in on our chat, Sláinte.

Join me for My Chat with Dr Max Potterton from Boortmalt & Grace O'Reilly,  Waterford Whisky's Chief Agronomist. Max and Grace hosted me in Dalton's Grain Mill in Kilkenny, where Waterford Whisky's Mark Rainier stores his single farm origin barley in The Cathedral, the specially customised grain warehouse. Here, all the grains for Waterford's Single Malt are stored in separate bays, ready to be di...

Join me for My Chat with Brendan Carty from Killowen Distillery.  I made the long pilgrimage from Cork to Co. Down and visited Brendan at the smallest distillery in Ireland. He gave me a personal tour of his maturation warehouse, boutique distillery, fermentation yard, malting house and his office... but don't worry, they're all within 10ft of each other. I had a blast, have a listen in. My drop o...

Join me for My Chat with Serghios Florides, Editor of Irish Whiskey Magazine and host of the 'Words on Whiskey' podcast. Serghios is very knowledgeable about the Irish whiskey industry and I wanted to get his take on the Irish whiskey scene as it stands today, now that we have 33 active distilleries on the island of Ireland. Don't forget to subscribe to his podcast: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple....

Join me for My Chat with Eric Flynn & Paul Quinn, two brothers-in-law who founded The Ennis Whiskey Club back in 2012. They meet up for a steak dinner and 4 whiskeys every couple of weeks, with 20 of their members and have the craic, as it should be! My drop of the night was JJ Correy's The Gael Batch 2 + Old Tom. Have a listen in on our chat, Sláinte.  

Join me for My Chat with the 1875 Whiskey Club of the Dublin Fire Brigade. Declan Rice, Enda McKenna, Simon Finglas and Jenny Shannon told us about this fledgling club and what they have been up to as a club since founding in October 2019.  Sound bunch of lads, follow them on Facebook, Instagram & their new Twitter @dfb1875.  Have a listen in on our chat, Sláinte.  

Join me for 'My Garden Chat tasting Waterford Whisky Part 2'  with 3 of my buddies from the Cork Whiskey Society: Aidan McGovern @aidanmc_g JP O'Riordan @whiskeyfella  Daniel Pennington @dramofthemonth    I was kindly sent a tasting pack by Ned Gahan (Head Distiller) and Megan Kiely (PR Exec) from Waterford Distillery and I invited the lads up to my garden to crack open these whiskys for the first...

Join me for 'My Garden Chat tasting Waterford Whisky Part 1' with 3 of my buddies from the Cork Whiskey Society: Aidan McGovern @aidanmc_g JP O'Riordan @whiskeyfella  Daniel Pennington @dramofthemonth    I was kindly sent a tasting pack by Ned Gahan (Head Distiller) and Megan Kiely (PR Exec) from Waterford Distillery and I invited the lads up to crack open these whiskys for the first time and find...

Join me for My Chat with The Aviators Whiskey Society.  President John McCarron, Vice President Dominic Byrne & Secretary Paul O'Farrell joined me and told me all about how the society was borne from employees of Dublin Airport, whose love of whiskey brought them together.  My drop of the day was: Writer's Tears cask strength Mizunara finish cask 1102 and The Dark Silkie from Sliabh Liagh Distille...

Join me for My chat with The Friends of Midleton, Ian Garrett & Eddie D'Arcy.  The lads started a Facebook group called the Friends of Midleton, to bring together lovers of the famous Cork Distillery. They also have 'Friends of Bruichladdie' and 'Friends of Waterford' Facebook groups and an upcoming exclusive cask strength release of Powers Whiskey.  My drop of the night was a 1997 Celtic Whiskey...

Join me for My Chat with the Dingle Chapter of Irish Whiskey Society's Peter White & Finn McDonnell. They have created a very special club in their enclave of Dingle in Co. Kerry. Finn McDonnell is the proprietor of Dick Mack's Pub in the town and they are also releasing whiskey under the Dick Mack's brand. Exciting times.... Have a listen in on our chat, Sláinte.

Join me for My Chat with the Waterford Whiskey Society.  Founding members Val Voit, Alan Bolster, Michael Higgins & Janice and Tony McGuinness all joined me on Zoom to tell me all about what the society have been up to and how they came to be. Have a listen in on our chat, Sláinte

My Chat with Dave Worthington aka Boutique-yDave from That Boutique-y Whisky Company. We talked about their Irish Single Malt releases to date and what we can expect from their upcoming aged Irish whiskey releases, amongst other things.  Have a listen in, Sláinte

Join me for My Chat with The Kilkenny Whiskey Guild. I was joined by 4 of their members: Cyril Briscoe,  Jim Raferty from the Dylan Whiskey Bar,  Pat Crotty from Paris Texas Bar and  Eddie Langton from Langton's House Hotel We had a great chat about why the Guild was set up, what they've achieved in promoting whiskey tourism in Kilkenny City and how they are looking forward to 2024, where Kilkenny...