5 Leaf Shamrock

What’s luckier than Three leaf shamrock? A Five leaf Shamrock.

Here’s round two for the Irish Fighters. It’s been a while since our Whiskey in the Jar'ow pack, our first tribute to Irish Whiskey. But there was so much Irish Whiskey waiting around for us to savour that we just had to return to the land where Leprechauns search for Gold at the end of the Rainbow.

Éire or Ireland is in fact the birthplace of Whiskey. Uisge Beatha, as they first named it, was supposedly created by monks who brought the technique of distilling perfumes from the Mediterranean back to Ireland more than a Thousand years ago. That’s a millenium of Whiskey (r)evolution in Ireland, which, for some reason, sank into oblivion in a few short decades.

What happened? Well, in the beginning of the 20th century, Ireland was enveloped in a Civil War (breaking away from the Commonwealth) and suddenly the British didn't like the Irish no-more, to put it mildly. Nor did they like their Whiskey. The Irish weren’t too concerned, they saw the Yankees as their next big drinking companions. Unfortunately, The Prohibition was enforced on the other side of the Atlantic. Soon tens of distilleries went out of business and only 4 of them survived the bootlegging era. As luck would have it though, Irish Whiskey are coming back with guns blazing.

And the bell goes off! From Single Grain to a Pot Still, unique in the Whiskey World. Then Poitin, the first recorded moonshine in history, moving on to a player from the Blended field, and of course a Single Malt to finish this selection of greatness. After all, a 5 leaf Shamrock is indeed luckier than a 3 leaf shamrock.

Sláinte!