Where can you learn to live life one cocktail at a time? Here on the Lush Life Podcast discover why an old-fashioned is the drink of choice, who is making their own bitters and how ice, or lack there of, is transforming the cocktails you drink. Hosted by your favorite drinking companion, Susan L. Schwartz, the Lush Life Podcast introduces you to the movers and shakers of the cocktail world.
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episode 138: How Irish Whiskey is Made in Hell with Geoff Speiran, The Dublin Liberties Distillery
If you didn’t listen to last week’s episode, then press stop and go back to that one now! You’ll meet Geoff Speiran, the Global Whiskey Ambassador for The Dublin Liberties Distillery. Once you know all about Geoff, then you are ready to take on our tour.
I’m Susan Schwartz, your drinking companion, and this is Lush Life Podcast, every week we are inspired to live life one cocktail at a time by the best in the industry.
Welcome to Hell! Not your usual greeting except when you are in the Liberties section of Dublin. Why was it know as Hell? You’ll just have to find out on this episode of Lush Life.
Geoff will guide us through Dublin’s newest distillery and then take us through a tasting of a selection of The Dublin Liberties Distillery range of Irish Whiskeys. What a way to end the year!
Our Cocktail of the Week is a take on an Old Fashioned called “A Measure of Attitude”.
Ingredients:
- 50ml Dead Rabbit Irish Whiskey
- Teaspoon Merlet Crème de Pêche
- 8ml Bénédictine
- 2 Dashes Bitter Truth Jerry Thomas Decanter Bitters
Method:
Pour all the ingredients into a mixing glass and stir. Serve into a tumbler glass with a block of ice. Express a lemon peel over the cocktail and discard peel.
You can find this recipe, more Irish Whiskey recipes and all the cocktails of the week at ALushLifeManual.com, where you’ll also find all the ingredients in our shop.
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Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation,” and always drink responsibly!
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