What Irish triple distilling really is.

[Rocky_Creek]

Irish triple distilling isn't what it sounds like. You don't simply run the same whisky thrugh a still three times.

What it is is the use of extreme cuts and recycling the heads and tails through with the next first run, run after run. Then when enough hearts have made it through it is put through in a new run. So in each first run there is a large part of the run that is going through for a second time. You get very little to pass the test the first time a cycle starts, more after that. This is ideal for collecting in many jars or jugs and then deciding what goes back into the next first run.

I started doing this before I understood the Irish method and it does make for smooth unaged whisky.


My next cycle starts in about two weeks and I will be using 4 grains, corn, oats, wheat and rye. Also 3 yeast - black label whisky yeast, whisky yeast w/ag, and distillers yeast. It will be a cycle of 8 sour mash first distillings (Irish method) and then the second(s).

[Rocky_Creek]

I'll try to dig it up. On all the web I have found only two references that go into the detail.

[Harry]

Traditionally Irish Pot still whiskey is distilled three times in copper stills to ensure a smooth and delicate spirit

1. The wash is heated in the first still (Wash still) and condensed into low wines
2. This then goes to the second still (Low wines and Feint still) where more impurities are removed and feints are collected.
3. The feints then go to a third still (Spirit still) where a further refining of the spirit takes place The result is the production of a colourless spirit which has a high alcohol content.

It is this third distillation that gives "Irish" its different taste which is purer and lighter than Scotch Whisky which is distilled twice. At the Midleton distillery in Co. Cork depending on the desired outcome the spirit may have been distilled as many as 5 times.
Source: http://www.classicwhiskey.com/making/distilling.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
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A good fellow to ask would be this laddie...
http://www.cocktailtimes.com/people/pro ... kett.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
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For an online virtual tour of Jameson's Distillery (interactive panoramic videos)... http://www.whiskeytours.ie/dublin/dubhistoryn.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
(I only saw 3 potstills there)
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Slainte!
regards Harry

[LeftLaneCruiser]

It's a bloody shame that people from former colonies try to tell us what we are doing for centuries is not what we believe we are doing...

Even thoug i'm not Irish (and more of a Scotch-drinker), i'm offended by the post. Just because it's a bunch of lies. I'd suggest you check, double check and even triple check your sources.


By what i'm going to say right now my purpose is NOT to offend anyone of you; but trough remarks like the original post in this thread, mostly made by individuals, the stereotypical image of "those stupid americans" is kept alive here in Europe.

Happy thanksgiving!

KJH

[Rocky_Creek]

So your saying that there is no variation between distilleries? That what Harry posted can't exist alongside what I posted? I think you may need to leave off the sauce for a while.

[Rocky_Creek]

Oh, by the way, I am about 90% Irish. So stuff it.

[Brett]

im sure theres many variations on the methods kept secret between distilleries, the important thing i guess is that to u ur brew tastes good and how u want.

[Guest]

Sour grapes make good hooch.





~pothead




HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL

[LeftLaneCruiser]

Like said: I didn't want to throw the pole-axe into the henhouse (as a saying goes here..).

But from the reactions i can see it was gently enough...

KJH