Kilbeggan 8 Year Old Single Grain Irish Whiskey 0,7 l

Single Grain Irish Whiskey, 40%vol

Single Grain whiskeys are very rare as most grain whiskey is normally used with Malt whiskeys to make Blended whiskey. Kilbeggan Single Grain is a truly unique whiskey as it is the only expression of Irish Single Grain whiskey.

Grain whiskey is made from maize – or corn as it's also known – producing a beautiful smooth sweet taste. When this is coupled with the creamy vanilla notes from maturation in exclusively ex-bourbon casks the results is the distinct taste of Kilbeggan Single Grain Irish Whiskey.

Kilbeggan's light bourbon-like taste profile makes this an exceedingly versatile whiskey accessible to all taste buds.

Coloured with caramel

Hersteller: Cooley Distillery, Riverstown, Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland

The raw ingredients for Grain whiskey are simply maize or as it is otherwise know as corn, water and yeast with perhaps a little barley to help start the distillation process. Grain whiskey is distilled in column stills in a continuous process. This is a modern method of distillation originally invented by an Irishman called Aeneas Coffey but adopted with vigour by the Scotch.

Due to the nature of its distillation Grain whiskey tends to have a lighter flavour than Malt whiskey and its principal purpose is to be mixed with the more flavourful Malt whiskey to produce an easy to drink blended whiskey. However, at Cooley it is aimed to produce a Grain whiskey that is good enough to drink in its own right.

As a result of the column still being predominately made of copper rather than the usual stainless steel and by maturing the Grain whiskey exclusively in ex-bourbon casks they have been able to create a bottling of Single Grain whiskey.