Comments on: Essence Review – Irish Whiskey http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/essences/essence-review-irish-whiskey/ Home Distillation Made Easy! Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:55:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: R.E.Craig http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/essences/essence-review-irish-whiskey/comment-page-1/#comment-4559 R.E.Craig Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:21:31 +0000 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/?p=76#comment-4559 I have just built my first pot still and am really looking forward to making my own oat based poteen. I just wanted to know would it be safe to put oak bark into the still? I can get loads of oak bark and wood from a local bog, 10,000 years old ! Regards Ricky the Rasper ( Brilliant Site ). I have just built my first pot still and am really looking forward to making my own oat based poteen. I just wanted to know would it be safe to put oak bark into the still?
I can get loads of oak bark and wood from a local bog, 10,000 years old !
Regards Ricky the Rasper ( Brilliant Site ).

]]> By: Swift http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/essences/essence-review-irish-whiskey/comment-page-1/#comment-4455 Swift Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:27:48 +0000 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/?p=76#comment-4455 I've been attempting to create just the right whiskey recipe here in Texas, and I've found one of the keys our these 2 liter hobby barrels from Kentucky made of charred white oak. I've been compiling a list of helpful sources. Cheers, Swift www.awhiskeydrink.com PS Great Blog! I’ve been attempting to create just the right whiskey recipe here in Texas, and I’ve found one of the keys our these 2 liter hobby barrels from Kentucky made of charred white oak. I’ve been compiling a list of helpful sources. Cheers, Swift http://www.awhiskeydrink.com

PS Great Blog!

]]> By: colin http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/essences/essence-review-irish-whiskey/comment-page-1/#comment-610 colin Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:57:15 +0000 http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/?p=76#comment-610 I tried it and to be honest none of the prestige range taste anything remotely like what they claim apart from ouzo and absinthe.... I made my own whiskey using actual oak chips....its cheap and easy ..the only downside is the time for maturation...at least 3-6mths to even start tasting like whiskey... My advice leave the prestige range well alone unless you dont mind the high cost per tiny bottle along with the ultimate disappointment you will find with more than 70% of the range... If you dont believe me try one of their amaretto style flavourings they dont even tates remotely of almond or have any noticable smell either. the only whiskey flavouring i have found that actually tastes a bit like whiskey is the ''Ambrosia Oak Aged Whisky '' flavouring....but at 3 GBP for one bottle of spirit that has already cost me 2 gbp to produce means a total of 5 GBP per bottle of cheap inferior weak tasting whiskey!!..pointless when whiskey in the uk is only 7 GBP per bottle for the cheap stuff which is infinitely better than any prestige range product! I tried it and to be honest none of the prestige range taste anything remotely like what they claim apart from ouzo and absinthe….

I made my own whiskey using actual oak chips….its cheap and easy ..the only downside is the time for maturation…at least 3-6mths to even start tasting like whiskey…

My advice leave the prestige range well alone unless you dont mind the high cost per tiny bottle along with the ultimate disappointment you will find with more than 70% of the range…

If you dont believe me try one of their amaretto style flavourings they dont even tates remotely of almond or have any noticable smell either.

the only whiskey flavouring i have found that actually tastes a bit like whiskey is the ”Ambrosia Oak Aged Whisky ” flavouring….but at 3 GBP for one bottle of spirit that has already cost me 2 gbp to produce means a total of 5 GBP per bottle of cheap inferior weak tasting whiskey!!..pointless when whiskey in the uk is only 7 GBP per bottle for the cheap stuff which is infinitely better than any prestige range product!

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