Podcasts by Irish Whiskey: Stories and Sips
Stories and Sips is hosted by Irishman and self-professed Irish whiskey ambassador Barry Chandler, introducing unsuspecting Americans to the joys of Ireland's extraordinary whiskeys, their history and their stories.
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Darryl McNally: Master of The Liberties from 2020-11-25T12:00
Ernest Cantillon: Cork’s Bar, Restaurant and Whiskey Entrepreneur from 2020-11-16T18:49:21
Irish whiskey has a fascinating past - we’ve had many great conversations about the rise and fall and rise again of Irish whiskey on this podcast. One of the most fascinating aspects to me of Ir...
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Alex Loudon – Ireland’s Rainwater Whiskey Maker from 2020-11-11T00:33:45
In October this year, Ireland had 34 operating Irish whiskey distilleries. As we settle in to November, we now find ourselves with 36 distilleries on the island of Ireland producing Irish whiske...
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Dave Mulligan: Ireland’s Proud Poitín Purveyor from 2020-11-03T15:05:40
John O'Donovan – Irish Whiskey's Global Retailer from 2020-10-27T18:20:59
Fionnán O’Connor – Ireland’s Pot Still Whiskey Historian – Part 2 from 2020-10-21T00:10:26
Before the available choices of single pot still whiskey stretched beyond two – Green Spot and Redbreast 12, one man had fallen in love with both the spirit and its history. Today, Fi...
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Fionnán O’Connor - Ireland’s Pot Still Whiskey Historian - Part 1 from 2020-10-14T15:26:57
Irish single pot still whiskey is in the midst of a welcome resurgence. Once one of the best selling styles of whiskey in the world, its rollercoaster journey has been well documented...
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Jarlath Watson: Blending Echlinville's Innovation with Belfast's Whiskey Traditions from 2020-09-17T06:47:39
In this episode of Stories & Sips I spent a very enjoyable afternoon chatting with Jarlath Watson, global brand ambassador and part of the founding team of the extraordinary Echlinvil...
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James Doherty: A Return to Donegal Distilling from 2020-09-10T03:57:34
It’s been 175 years since legal distilling has happened in Ireland’s North Western-most county of Donegal. That changed with the establishment of Sliabh Liag Distillers - founded by h...
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Kieran Folliard: 2 Gingers, Many Irish Pubs&No All-Ireland Football Medals from 2020-08-27T16:16:06
He built an Irish pub group, he became the world’s biggest seller of Jameson, he launched his own Irish whiskey, he sold the pubs, he sold the whiskey and he’s still not done.
In this epi...
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Daithí O'Connell: Ireland's Modern Whiskey Merchant from 2020-08-20T04:44:19
Daithí O’Connell is the founder of W.D. O’Connell Whiskey Merchants. It's safe to say that the whiskey merchants of old didn't have previous experience flying planes in the Middle East or settin...
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John Quinn: Tullamore Legend&Irish Whiskey Icon from 2020-08-13T06:03:31
John Quinn serves as global brand ambassador for Tullamore D.E.W., one of the most recognized brands in Irish whiskey, a company he has played a role in growing since his early days with Irish D...
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Jack Ferris: Old Bushmills Distillery&New Single Malts from 2020-07-30T15:55:52
Growing up even closer to a distillery than I did, this week’s guest Jack Ferris, is the United States National Brand Ambassador for Bushmills. I’ve fallen more and more in love with the single ...
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Liam Brogan: Two Stacks&The Beginning of a Whiskey Journey from 2020-06-25T04:30:49
This is the first episode in a series of conversations I'll be having with the founding team of Ireland Craft Beverages. They are about to launch their first ever Irish whiskey and ar...
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Rob Caldwell: Dissecting Dublin's Teeling Whiskey from 2020-06-18T03:44:03
Teeling has remained a bit of an enigma to me over the past few years as I've tried to get my head around the myriad of brands they produce.
To put me straight and g...
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Jonathan Mitchell: A Spot of Irish Whiskey History from 2020-06-10T20:38:29
Today we are seeing a resurgence in demand for Ireland’s quintessential style of Irish whiskey - pot still whiskey. New distilleries all over the country are distilling and maturing s...
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Peter Mulryan: From Broadcasting to The Blackwater from 2020-05-27T04:42:05
Outspoken and passionate, Peter Mulryan is determined to build on Irish whiskey's rich, diverse history and recipes, and with a healthy pour of innovation ensure that his Irish whiske...
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Mary Ferriter: Dingle Distillery's Founding Mother from 2020-05-19T23:07:58
One woman has been part of the story of Dingle and the distillery since before this crazy idea to distill in one of Europe’s most westerly towns was hatched. Her name is Mary Ferriter...
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Louise McGuane: Blends, Bottles&Bonds from 2020-05-13T03:32:44
The rise in demand for Irish whiskey around the world over the past ten years has led to the building of new distilleries in Ireland and the establishment of new whiskey brands, bonde...
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Maurice O'Connell: Irish Whiskey's Wayward Gentleman from 2020-05-06T03:17:17
In the fight for Irish rights in the early 1800s, there is one dominant name - Daniel O’Connell - known as The Liberator or The Emancipator. O’Connell, a Kerryman, campaigned for Catholic emanc...
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Eric Ryan: Cork's Whiskey Walker&Talker from 2020-04-29T05:02:25
This week I caught up with Eric Ryan - a man with a remarkable range of experience, knowledge and historical interest in whiskey and especially whiskey from Cork in the south of Irela...
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Grace O'Reilly: Waterford Distillery's Crop Walker from 2020-04-22T14:12:03
This year, the much-anticipated first whiskey releases will leave the gates of Waterford Distillery. The distillery's intense approach to all aspects of whiskey production, starts long before di...
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Irish Whiskey&Seaweed: A Marriage of Land&Sea. from 2020-03-13T17:46:01
The growing demand for Irish whiskey has inspired new innovation by Irish whiskey distilleries across every aspect of fermentation, distillation and maturation.
It's not just the distille...
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Powers Irish Whiskey: A Love Story from 2020-02-28T05:25:31
As someone who grew up in a “Powers house” - that is, a house that stocked a bottle of Powers “just in case” (in case of what was never made clear) I have come to understand the endur...
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Thomond Gate Whiskey: Bringing Irish Whiskey Back To Limerick from 2020-01-25T17:12:43
In the 1800s, the city of Limerick on the banks of the River Shannon, played a prominent role in the production and eventual export of Irish whiskey to the four corners of the world.
It’s...
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A Day in the Distiller's Cottage: Dream Drams&Dream Casks from 2020-01-16T18:47:02
On a warm summer's day last year, my buddy Omar Fitzell from thatsdramgood.com and I managed to talk our way into the famed Distiller's Cottage on the hallowed grounds of the Old Midleton Distil...
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Waterford Distillery: Ireland's Most Exciting New Whiskey Distillery from 2020-01-08T18:14:37
Tales and tastes of Kilbeggan, Connemara and The Tyrconnell from 2019-05-31T14:23:53
I was lucky enough to spend some time in New York recently with Beam Suntory Irish Whiskey portfolio brand ambassador Janice Snowden who walked us through the tales and tastes of these amazing w...
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Clonakilty: West Cork, Whales&Whiskey from 2019-05-28T18:49:58
This episode of Stories and Sips comes all the way from New York where we sit down and chat with Clonakilty Distillery brand ambassador Peter Shannon about Ireland's 23rd operating distillery Cl...
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Walsh Whiskey - Tears&Triumph from 2019-05-28T18:32:07
Anyone familiar with the struggle of putting pen to paper on a consistent basis to create, to craft, to tell a story will be all too familiar with the paralyzing phenomenon known as writer’s blo...
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An American and his Irish castle full of whiskey from 2019-02-14T19:21:20
In this week's episode of Stories & Sips, we're going to delve deep into the past to discover the Hollywood-esque story of an American, his Irish castle and the legacy of the incredible whiskeys...
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Echlinville Distillery - Northern Ireland's Whiskey Upstart from 2019-02-07T21:51:14
In this episode we're going to take a journey back in time and for the first time on Stories and Sips we’re going north of the border – very topical these days – to Northern Ireland, to introduc...
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Kilbeggan: The Distillery That Brought Down A Government from 2019-01-31T19:05:04
Less than an hour’s drive west from Dublin, lies the small town of Kilbeggan - a town that has been home to many distilleries over the years and it’s obvious why - there’s plenty of f...
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Pearse Lyons Distillery - Dublin's Whiskey Altar from 2019-01-31T04:57:52
The floozy in the jacuzzi, the tart with the cart, the hags with the bags….Dubliners are fond of adding a nickname to the monuments that pop around their city.
Fitting then that the arriv...
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Exploring Waterford's Whisk(e)y Revolution from 2019-01-17T20:16:40
A county in Ireland that five years ago didn’t have a single distillery is an unlikely location for some of the greatest innovation in the Irish whiskey world today, but a small county in the su...
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Stories&Sips in Ireland. Day 5: Behind the scenes at Midleton Distillery from 2019-01-10T18:21:34
Welcome to Episode 18 of Stories & Sips, the final episode from my whiskey trip to Ireland late last year and the first video of 2019. I’m especially excited to bring this episode to you as I sh...
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Stories&Sips in Ireland. Days 2-4: Pearse Lyons, John's Lane&Whiskey Live from 2018-12-12T13:47:03
After a busy first day of whiskey tourism in Dublin, the second day has to be taken a little more slowly! But then again, there are sights to be seen...
In this episode I visit the beauti...
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Stories&Sips in Ireland. Day 1: Teeling, Jameson&The Palace Bar from 2018-12-07T18:10:23
This week's episode of Stories & Sips comes live from Dublin in Ireland which is seeing a resurgence in Irish whiskey production, 40 years since the last distillery closed in the city. I visit t...
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Expensive Irish Whiskey In A Cocktail? Is He Mad? from 2018-11-20T02:13:59
By the end of this episode, some of you will want to hang me, and others will have a new-found respect for Irish whiskey. Either way I’m going to talk about how to introduce yet more people to t...
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10 Reasons To Fall In Love With Powers Irish Whiskey from 2018-11-16T16:23:26
In 1791, a man not satisfied with operating a tavern in the old liberties area of Dublin decided to start making his own whiskey. This decision would affect the fate of the Irish whiskey industr...
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How Irish Whiskey Gave Us Radio from 2018-11-08T04:48:14
Irish whiskey has done more than satiated our thirst, it has in fact changed the world. In this episode of stories and sips we look at the incredible connection between Irish whiskey and the inv...
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A Cork man, a Waterford woman and Jameson Black Barrel from 2018-10-30T13:29:52
In this episode of Stories and Sips, you get two Irish people for the price of one as I'm joined by Jameson Brand Ambassador Lisa McGrath who shares the story of Jameson Black Barrel and leads u...
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An Irish Whiskey Fit For A Manor from 2018-10-23T22:27:45
In 1825, three Murphy brothers purchased an old woolen mills in Midleton in County Cork and converted it into a distillery on the banks of the Dungourney River…a distillery that over the past 20...
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Dingle, a dolphin and a distillery from 2018-10-17T05:11:48
In this episode of Stories & Sips we’re talking about dolphins, and distilleries. That can only mean one thing. We’re talking about one of the most westerly towns in Europe - the remote, the ins...
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5 Reasons Irish Whiskey Is Booming from 2018-10-12T05:00:40
According to the Irish Whiskey Association, combined sales of Irish whiskey are growing at a rate of 250,000 bottles a week. This year will be the first year in over 100 years that Irish whiskey...
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A Toast To Whiskey Bonders, Old And New from 2018-10-09T21:11:59
If you were a visitor to Ireland 60 years ago (which in itself would have been a rare thing) and you wanted a bottle of whiskey...if you had gone to the distillery to find it in a gif...
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The Night Whiskey Destroyed Dublin from 2018-10-05T03:31:23
A Jameson TV commercial a few years ago tells the tale of how John Jameson saved his precious whiskey from The Great Dublin Fire of 1789. In order to save his whiskey from the flames ...
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The Right Way To Drink Irish Whiskey from 2018-10-03T22:57:47
It is a widely known truth that the best way to drink Irish whiskey is while sitting in a green field, in the shadow of a distillery, while fair maidens dance around you singing the haunting lyr...
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A Love Letter To Midleton And Its Whiskeys from 2018-10-03T22:42:51
Midleton, a small farming town in East Cork, a half hour’s drive from Cork City is the unlikely center of the world for Irish whiskey. Unlikely, maybe in terms of its size (population 12000) hum...
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The D.E.W Behind Tullamore Irish Whiskey from 2018-10-03T22:30:57
What I love about Irish whiskey is that it is far more than the taste, the flavor, the bottle or the label. With many Irish whiskeys you are sipping the product of hundreds of years of history. ...
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Why Whiskey Stories Matter from 2018-10-03T22:22:33
There's more to Irish whiskey than the liquid in the bottle or the label adorning it's glass. Behind the whiskey are stories, some fact, some fiction, but my favorite whiskeys are strongly influ...
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The Legendary Paddy Behind Paddy Irish Whiskey from 2018-10-03T01:42:25
In 1912, the Cork Distilleries Co. changed the name of their whiskey to honor a man who had worked for the company for almost 50 years. But he was no ordinary man. His name was Patrick J. O'Flah...
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Welcome to Stories&Sips from 2018-09-29T03:05:12
Welcome to the first episode in our twice-weekly attempt at introducing unsuspecting Americans to the joys of Irish whiskey.
The incredible history of this Irish spirit has given us stori...
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