Hyde The Aras Cask No.5 Single Grain 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.

Hyde No.5 is a triple distilled, single grain, Irish whiskey from one single distillery location. Originally distilled in a traditional ‘Coffey’ Copper Column still from pure corn/maize grain. Matured for a minimum of 6 years in flame charred, first fill, ex-bourbon casks from Kentucky in the U.S.A. before being ‘finished’ for a further 6 months in vintage BURGUNDY French red wine casks. The bouquet shows spice with notes of red berry fruit, vanilla, and toasted oak. A creamy nutty palate entry with notes of sweet custard, apple peel, red berries and orange blossom honey. A nice long satisfying finish of plum, jam and spice ending with a silky combination of oak and barley.