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Whiskey Chats

Join me, Laurie O"Dwyer, on my whiskey apprenticeship, as I have a bit of craic chatting to guests about all things whiskey and spirits.

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01:33:00

My Midleton Distillery Garden Chat with Barry, Dan,...

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2025/02/05

Join me for My Midleton Distillery Garden Chat with Barry Chandler, Dan Pennington, Paul Costello and Mark Lonergan. I set up a marquee out my back garden over Xmas 2024. The lads called up, Dan was on BBQ duty, I made Belfast Coffees, we had a ball. I asked Midleton Master Blender Dave McCabe for a sample set from the Midleton blending lab. He very graciously sent me an amazing array of aged whiskeys, that he was working on at the time. Midleton Distillery have vast depths of amazing liquids

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01:04:46

My Eimverk Distillery Chat with Eva Sigurbjornsdottir...

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2025/01/25

Join me for My Eimverk Distillery Chat with Eva Sigurbjornsdottir, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Eimverk produce Floki Whisky, which is famous for their sheep dung smoked whisky and many other amazing spirits. My wife Sonya and I recently visited Eva for a look around their innovative distillery, where we discovered just how much effort that they put into their production and raw materials. For a distillery located on a volcanic island, its very impressive. What a trip it was...... This episode of the

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01:17:45

My Islay Garden Chat with Dan, Paulie, Matt & Aidan

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2024/12/27

Join me for My Islay Garden Chat with Dan Pennington, Paulie Costello, Matt Kelleher & Aidan McGovern. On a recent pilgrimage to the magical whisky island of Islay, off the coast of Scotland, with a couple of good buddies, we sat out the back of our rent-a-house on Bowmare High St, for a very honest chat about the trip so far. I hope this gives anyone thinking about making the trip, an honest insight about the pitfalls and what we found amazing about Islay. What a trip it was...... This episode of

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01:11:48

My Ardbeg Distillery Chat with Jackie Thomson

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2024/12/23

Join me for My Ardbeg Distillery Chat with Jackie Thomson, Visitor Centre Manager. On a recent pilgrimage to the magical whisky island of Islay, off the coast of Scotland, with a couple of good buddies - Dan, Paulie, Matt and Aidan, we visited Ardbeg Distillery. Here, I met up with Jackie Thomson, an absolute livewire of a lady and an enthusiatic whisky evangelist. She is a recent Whisky Magazine Hall of Fame inductee for 2023. I'm not in the least bit surprised. She gave us a behind the scenes walk

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My Chat with Derek Mather in The Laddie Snug at Artisan

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2024/12/12

Join me for My Chat with Derek Mather in The Laddie Snug at Artisan. On a recent pilgrimage to the magical whisky island of Islay, off the coast of Scotland with a couple of good buddies, we made an overnight detour to the small town of Wishaw, midway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, to the famous Artisan restaurant. Head chef, owner, curator and co-founder of the Friends of Bruichladdich FaceBook group, Derek Mather, founded this whisky mecca 16 yrs ago..... and the grub ain't half bad either....

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02:10:01

My Belfast Chat in The Friend at Hand with Jim, Mark...

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2024/11/29

Join me for My Belfast Chat in The Friend at Hand with Jim, Mark & Séamus. On this episode, I had 3 guests who joined me in a round-table chat in the spectacular tasting room in the back of The Friend at Hand whiskey shop and museum in the heart of Belfast city. . Jim Ingram who works in The FAH and has the YouTube Channel The Whiskey Novice. . Séamus Óg Birt, Brand Ambassador in Echlinville Distillery in Co. Down. . Mark McConville, Brand Ambassador for Bushmills Distillery in Co. Antrim. We all

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01:09:47

My Chat with Willie Jack in The Friend at Hand in...

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2024/11/18

Join me for My Chat with Willie Jack in The Friend at Hand in Belfast. Willie Jack is a legend in Belfast. He is a publican, whiskey museum curator, architectural salvager and restorer, antiques dealer, community builder, cultural ambassador and a seriously well connected and sound fella. I have wanted to speak to Willie for many years about the shrine to Irish Whiskey he has built at The Friend at Hand "whiskey shop"...... it's far more than a whiskey shop. It is a must go to in Belfast and Sonya

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My Live Festival Chat with Noel Sweeney - Master...

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2024/11/14

Join me for My Live Festival Chat with Noel Sweeney - Master Distiller. Noel is famous for his amazing time as Master Distiller at Cooley Distillery, where he became responsible for releasing alot of the amazing Irish whiskeys that we all love today. His Cooley malts and single grains are still being released by different brands and bottlers to this day, to massive plaudits. Right now, one of Noel's focuses is on his blended whiskey from his collaboration with the famous dancer Michael Flatley

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01:20:21

My Live Chat at Cork on a Fork Festival

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2024/11/07

Join me for My Live Chat at Cork on a Fork Festival I was asked to do a number of Live podcasts at a recent foodie festival in Cork - Cork on a Fork. I set up a podcast studio in the top floor bar of Cork Opera House in August 2024, in front of a Live audience, where my guests and I shared some very interesting drinks and chats. My 3 guests were: Mark Lonergan - ex-manager of The Shelbourne Whiskey Bar in Cork Barry Walsh from Killahora Orchards Liam Murray - President of Cork Whiskey Society It

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01:22:57

My McConnell's Distillery Chat with Graham Millar,...

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2024/10/25

Join me for My McConnell's Distillery Chat with Graham Millar, Head Distiller. Myself and Sonya visited McConnel's Distillery, in the old Crumlin Road Jail in Belfast, whilst up at Belfast Whiskey Week 2024. Graham showed us around their amazing converted and renovated centuries old prison wing, that is now their Distillery! The project was started over a decade ago by another party and the current shareholders were able to finally complete the earlier vision this year, by turning on the stills and

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01:52:15

My Cask Chat with Gary Ring in Boann Distillery

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2024/10/05

Join me for My Cask Chat with Gary Ring in Boann Distillery. I visited Gary a while back, firstly joining him for a cuppa and bickie in Boann's "Distiller's Cottage", in Kestral Manor!!! I kid you not, very bougie... Gary is a distiller in Boann distillery and one of the most enthusiatic proponents of whiskey production in Irish whiskey industry..... with the added bonus of being from Cork! Lucky guy... We wandered over to the distillery and proceded to completely ignore his workshop - the

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My Titanic Distillery Chat with Damien Rafferty

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2024/09/27

Join me for My Titanic Distillery Chat with Damien Rafferty. We recently visited Titanic Distillery at the Belfast city docks, while we were attending Belfast Whiskey Week 2025. We met up with Head Distiller Damien and we went for a stroll and a chat around the distillery building, finding out more about the Titanic Distillery project. It is an amazing building, the old pumphouse of the dry dock where the fateful Titanic was actually built. Huge history, huge stories, huge legacy...... I highly

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01:08:08

My Copeland Distillery Chat with Gareth Irvine

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2024/09/22

Join me for My Copeland Distillery Chat with Gareth Irvine. We recently visited Copeland Distillery on The Ards peninsula in Co. Down while we we attending Belfast Whiskey Week 2025. I chatted to owner and founder Gareth Irvine about his amazing distillery that he started as part of a college module!.. It is a fantastic little distillery, in a picturesque seaside town, just of the main quay in Donaghadee. There is a coffee dock at the edge of the production area..... in the stillhouse! You can

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01:40:04

My Distillery Chat with Sarah Dowling, Cooley...

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2024/09/09

Join me for My Distillery Chat with Sarah Dowling, Cooley Distillery's Head Blender. I have wanted to see beyond the gates of the iconic Cooley Distillery for years. I finally got the opportunity and Head Blender and ex Distillery Manager Sarah Dowling showed me around. To say it was amazing is an understatement. It turns out that Cooley is a little bit boutiquey..... not the behemoth that everyone thinks it is. It is medium craft distillery that has left a very large footprint on Irish Whiskey and

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02:38:41

My Wee Pub Chat with Anthony & Katie Sheehy

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2024/09/04

Join me for My Wee Pub Chat with Anthony & Katie Sheehy. Anthony & Katie founded Irish Whiskey Auctions, the monthly whiskey auction in Ireland and sponsor of Whiskey Chats. They then co-founded Irish Whiskey Experiences with Barry Chandler, where they have had huge successes with their Whiskey Bus tours and upcoming Whiskey Cruise in Nov 2025. But deep in the wee county of Louth, straddling the Northern Irish border, is the best wee pub around - JJ Sheehy's - another part of their empire!! This is

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01:22:00

My Distillery Chat with Tracey Clarke in Kilbeggan

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2024/08/25

Join me for My Distillery Chat with Tracey Clarke in Kilbeggan. Tracey has worked as a Tour Guide in Kilbeggan Distillery for over 23yrs. She is part of the local community and would have grown up knowing it as the Old Locke's Distillery, after the family that previously owned it and ran it. It is an amazingly well preserved example of Victorian, Industrial revolution era equipment and machinery, mingled into a distillery experience and working micro distillery onsite. I would highly recommend you

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01:19:55

My Chat with Enguerrand Vandenbossche

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2024/08/10

Join me for My Chat with Enguerrand Vandenbossche. Enguerrand is a French trained cooper, who was the Head Cooper in Tullamore Dew Distillery until 2022, owned by Beam Suntory, after working in France and for a time in Scotland at some of their industrial cooperages. For the past 2yrs, he has been working at the Good Spirits Co. in Dundalk. They are behind the Grace O'Malley whiskey brand and also store and bottle for many of the whiskey brands you see on the shelves. He is a very knowledgeable

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01:31:15

My Distillery Chat with Gearóid Cahill in Slane...

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2024/07/28

Join me for My Distillery Chat with Gearóid Cahill in Slane Distillery. Gearóid is one of the only Master Brewers AND Master Distillers working in the alcohol industry. He spent nearly 20yrs as one of Diageo's top brewers, before going to work as Head Distiller for the fledgling Slane Distillery in Co. Meath, in the shadow of the famous concert venue, Slane Castle. They are a really interesting small distillery as they run column stills and grow most of their grain on the 1500 acre Slane farm. This

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My Distillery Chat with Connor Howlett at Stillgarden

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2024/07/23

Join me for My Distillery Chat with Connor Howlett at Stillgarden Distillery, in the heart of Dublin city. Connor has worked as a brand ambassador and chief gardener at Stillgarden for a couple of years now, after he finished his English and Film degree in 2021. He is very passionate about creating spirits of real integrity and it was a pleasure to spend an afternoon chatting with him. Stillgarden Distillery make modern Irish spirits using as many local grown botanicals as we can and capture those

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01:38:40

My Historic Bottle Chat with Leo Phelan

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2024/07/07

Join me for My Historic Bottle Chat with Leo Phelan. Leo is a lifelong whiskey enthusiast. He has been knee deep in the Irish whiskey world for over 20yrs. He is a founding member and former president of the Irish Whiskey Society. He has become one of the authorities on historic Irish whiskey bottles in Ireland and is regularly consulted on authenticating bottles. He has amassed an amazing collection of historic bottles himself and I visited Leo at his home, to chat about his collection and learn a

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