January 2011
4 posts
Whisky terms: 'dog'
‘dog’: is a relatively primitive device which was hand-made to smuggle out whisky or fresh spirit from the distillery or the warehouse. Whisky was rather stolen this way for home consumption than for sale.
The common ‘dog’ device was made of a copper tube sealed at one end and corked at the other. The tube was then hanged on a long copper chain. The worker filled the...
Isle of Arran Tokaji Cask Finish 55%
This is the Scotch single malt whisky ‘magyars’ are the proudest of. It took the whisky industry two decades until they discovered the unique late harvest wines of the Tokaji region (tokaji aszu) in Hungary as a source for special wine casks for doing “finishes”. As ‘magyars’ say: the wine of Tokaj is ‘The King of Wines. The Wine for Kings’....
Connemara Bog Oak
Last time I wrote about the Connemara Turf Mor, which is really a unique peated Irish whiskey from the Cooley’s Distillery. Here comes something even better, now!
First of all, I would like to thank for the experts at Cooley’s that they gave us the opportunity to taste and test their outstanding whiskey invention: the Connemara Bog Oak. Our team (the Whisky Society of Hungary) is...