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Irish Malted-Barley Whiskey

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Single Irish Kiln-Malted-Barley Whiskey

Single Irish Smoke-Malted-Barley Whiskey

History

Virtually all Irish whiskey was pot-distilled from smoke-malted-barley, using peat as fuel, and not blended – neither with other single whiskies, nor grain spirit – until the second half of the nineteenth century. It was then that smoke-malting with peat was set aside by most Irish distilleries. It was about the same time that many Irish whiskies were also first triple-distilled. These changes established the cleaner and lighter flavor now usually associated with Irish whiskey.

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