Hyde Heritage Cask No.8 Stout Cask Finish Whiskey

Product Description

Coming from the protestant tradition, it was highly unusual that Douglas would develop an interest in the Irish language which was still a vibrant and working language in the West of Ireland. But when Douglas as a child met and socialised with the locally born French Park children, his skill at picking up the local Roscommon dialect of the Irish language was an early indication of his future academic success in Trinity College Dublin as a distinguished Gaelic scholar, academic, linguist and Irish language revivalist. Following the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 after the War of Independence, Douglas Hyde was one of the first university academics to be elected to the Irish Parliament’s Upper House or Senate in 1925. The ratification of the first Irish Constitution in 1937 called for the election of an Irish President and Senator Douglas Hyde who was seen as a person of both academic and cultural substance, was elected unopposed as an agreed candidate to represent a pluralist, non-sectarian modern Ireland. Hyde Whiskey in Skibereen is a new Irish whiskey venture and is not to be confused with any other whiskey companies in West Cork. In common with most new Irish Whiskey start ups, their initial release is based on a high quality offering that Hyde have worked their magic on from an established distillery.

A superb blended whiskey which has been comprised of 75% – 4 Year Old Single Grain (previously aged in an ex-Bourbon cask) and 25% – 4 Year Old Single Malt (previously matured in an Oloroso Sherry cask) before being finished for five to six months in a Cotton Ball Stout infused cask. This collaboration between Hyde Whiskey and the Cotton Ball Brewing Company has resulted in a whiskey which has an abundance of coffee and malty notes. Smooth and creamy on the finish!