Comments on: Essence Review – Irish Whiskey http://www.stillsmart.co.uk/essences/essence-review-irish-whiskey/ Home Distillation Made Easy! Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:27:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 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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