{"id":1387,"date":"2014-04-15T20:24:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2014-04-30T16:33:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:33:04","slug":"irishcanadian-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/irishcanadian-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish\/Canadian Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=1391#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1391\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1391\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cart.php_-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Collingwood 21 Rye\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cart.php_-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cart.php_-66x100.jpeg 66w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cart.php_.jpeg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Tonight&#8217;s tasting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinityhall.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Trinity Hall Irish Pub<\/a> included 3 Irish whiskeys and 3 Canadian Rye whiskeys&#8230; all of them new to the pub. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what the lineup included:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irish<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jameson Black Barrel ($33) &#8211; Sweet nose of vanilla and caramel&#8230; taste of honey, fruit, some spice and charred oak&#8230; nice whiskey and a big step up from regular Jameson.<\/li>\n<li>Green Spot ($42) &#8211; Sweet nose of vanilla, caramel and straw, but less sweet than Black Barrel&#8230; taste is spicy with notes of apple, pear and a bit of grass, slightly hot and bitter on the finish&#8230; not impressed.<\/li>\n<li>Teeling Whiskey (estimated $45) &#8211; this is the same whiskey that I tasted at the <a title=\"Teeling Whiskey National Debut\" href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1357\" target=\"_blank\">national launch a couple of weeks ago<\/a>&#8230; it&#8217;s a bit less medicinal\/herbal than I remember and much hotter this time&#8230; still not impressed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Canadian<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wisers Rye &#8211; very mild nose and very mild flavor with a bit of spice, sweet maple and apple\u2026 not much here, so I&#8217;ll pass<\/li>\n<li>Pike Creek Port Finish ($24) &#8211; sweet nose with vanilla, plum and caramel&#8230; port seems to tone down the spice in a good way (but it&#8217;s still there)&#8230; also, notes of sweet rye, fruit and a little bit of maple\u2026 nice, simple whiskey at a good price with some interesting flavors<\/li>\n<li>Collingwood 21 ($52) &#8211; nose of peach, green apple, caramel and honeysuckle (we were actually trying to guess at the evident floral component)&#8230; \u00a0flavors of charred maple syrup, toffee, honey, tobacco, cardboard, lavender and bitter herbs&#8230; a strange whiskey that I would pass up, especially for the price&#8230; plus the bottle looks like an oversized cologne bottle&#8230; I kept thinking I should splash some on \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Bonus<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stagg, Jr. ($40) &#8211; This is the same batch that I <a title=\"Stagg, Jr. Kentucky Straight Bourbon\" href=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1366\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed recently<\/a> and easily the best pour of the night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s tasting at Trinity Hall Irish Pub included 3 Irish whiskeys and 3 Canadian Rye whiskeys&#8230; all of them new to the pub. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what the lineup included: Irish Jameson Black Barrel ($33) &#8211; Sweet nose of vanilla and caramel&#8230; taste of honey, fruit, some spice and charred oak&#8230; nice whiskey and a big step &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/irishcanadian-tasting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whiskey"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-mn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}