Kilbeggan

Irish Whiskey
Purchase Price: $18
Place of Purchase: Astor Wine and Spirits - New York, NY
Rating: 7.7

Another outsider in the always competitive Irish stakes, Kilbeggan is distilled by Cooley, touted by their own website as “Ireland’s last independent distiller.” In fact Chrissy Hynde wrote an entire album about this place entitled, appropriately enough, “Last of the Independents.” I think it sold about as good the follow-up to “Pac-Man Fever” did. In any case, Cooley produces some really interesting whiskies, the most famous of which is probably the Connemara Peated Single Malt. Well, Kilbeggan is a blend and not a very interesting one. It tastes like watered-down Powers to me and that’s drinking it neat. Irish whiskies are sometimes put upon for being a bit too airy and listless and Kilbeggan does little to provide a line of defense for that argument.