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The origin of Irish whiskey is a little cloudy, no one is actually sure when it was 1st created, it is surmised that brewing started sometime in the 12th century.

Irish whiskey is barley, malt whiskey made in Ireland. Irish whiskey resembles Scotch whisky in that its ingredients and formulation is slightly different.

Note that Irish whiskey is written differently. Peat is almost never used when malting Irish whiskey, resulting in a whiskey with a smoother, sweeter flavor. In most Irish whiskeys, the smoky, earthy flavors of Scotch are absent.

Common wisdom says that the Irish invented whiskey, but it is speculated that the Scots perfected it. Both claims are open to doubt, if "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," then "perfection is on the tongue of the glassholder." In other words it is a question of taste. The word whiskey comes from the Irish Gaelic term "uisce beatha" which translates as "water of life" ("uisce" is pronounced ish-ka).

There are fewer distilleries of Irish whiskey than there are distillers of Scotch. Economic difficulties in the last couple of centuries have led to great number of mergers and closures.

Currently there are only three distilleries operating in the whole of Ireland (although each produces a number of different whiskies.)
Irish whiskey, like Scotch, comes in several forms. Like Scotch whisky, there is single malt, (100% malted barley and grain whiskey.

Grain whiskey is much lighter and more neutral in flavor than single malt and is almost never bottled as a single grain. It is instead used to blend with single malt to produce a lighter blended whiskey.

Unique to Irish whiskey distilling and something that the scotch have never followed on, is pure pot still whiskey (100% barley, both malted and unmalted, distilled in a pot still). The "green" unmalted barley gives the pure pot still whiskey a spicy, unique Irish quality. Like single malt, pure pot still is sold as such or blended with grain whiskey.

Irish whiskey is believed to be one of the earliest distilled beverages in Europe, dating to the mid-12th century). The Old Bushmills Distillery also lays claim to being the oldest licensed distillery in the world since gaining a license in 1608.

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