Greenore 8 Year Old

Greenore is an extremely unique whiskey, being the first single grain whiskey ever released in Ireland. The grain make-up of this whiskey is 93% corn and 7% malted barley, and it’s aged for 8 years in American oak ex-bourbon barrels. The corn used to make Greenore comes from the USA and lands at a deep water port in the nearby village of Greenore, hence the name. The classification of single grain may at first seem confusing, as there are clearly two types of grain used, but is based upon it being a grain whisky from a single distillery, in the same way as a single malt is defined. The whisky is also made even more unique by virtue of its production in a continuous still rather than a pot still. This method resembles that of bourbon production, and yet while many first timers may expect the flavour profile to then also slightly resemble bourbon, it doesn’t even faintly come close in any, way shape or form. Indeed Greenore is a whiskey incomparable to any other whiskey on the market in aroma and taste, with a production technique so unusual that it is the only one of its kind anywhere in the world. Whatever the guys at Cooley were trying to achieve, they nailed it. The Greenore 8 Year Old Single Grain is now about to be rebranded as ‘Kilbeggan 8 year old Single Grain’ and Greenore will no longer exist, making this whiskey a collector’s item over the coming years.