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Key Data

  1. The owner is the company that owns the whiskey brand. This may or may not be the same company that actually makes the whiskey.

  2. Only three distilleries produce whiskey at the moment: Cooley, Midleton (operated by Irish Distillers) and Bushmills. To be called Irish whiskey, the spirit must have been distilled on the island of Ireland and thus must be the product of one or more of these distilleries. A very old whiskey might have been made at a distillery that has since closed, of course.

  3. Alcohol By Volume (%). The percentage alcohol figures are those that apply in Ireland and the UK. A whiskey might be bottled at a different strength for sale in another jurisdiction. For example, whiskey must have a minimum strength of 43% to be sold in South Africa.

NameJameson 1780
Owner1Irish Distillers
Distillery2Midleton
TypeBlend
Age12
PeatedNo
ABV340%

Notes

Irish Distillers discontinued this, replacing it with Jameson 12yo. There is some debate over whether these are just different names for the same whiskeys or if the precise composition of the blend shifted at the same time. Irish Distillers claims the former while Jim Murray, noted whiskey authority, suspects the latter.

The composition of blended whiskeys (age of whiskey used, ratio of sherry to bourbon barrels, percentage grain whiskey, etc.) changes over time anyway so perhaps the 12yo expression just "evolved" according to the available stock of maturing whiskey.

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