“Scots-Irish,” a popular label among American conservatives today, has long been a kind of shorthand for mythic ideas about ...

New releases include a cask strength variation of Ardbeg 10, a new core range Lagavulin, and a blend featuring Scottish actor ...

Irish whiskey sales have been tipped to overtake Scotch sales in the US by 2030 after sales rose by 16.3% in 2021 to reach a record $1.3 billion. Roughly 5.9 million casks of Irish whiskey were sold ...

“The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from Colonial ...

Despite once referencing the 2002 movie Gangs of New York, when referring to immigrant crime rates, Vice President JD Vance is of Irish origin. in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy, Vance wrote: "To ...

Last month, Beam Suntory – the US-headquartered spirits arm of Japanese group Suntory Holdings – was rebranded to Suntory Global Spirits, reflecting what it called a “sharpened focus” on “key” ...

The Irish invented whiskey (even the Scots admit that) and have been making it in one form or another for almost a thousand years. They even gave it its name, from the Gaelic “uisce beatha,” meaning ...

Mention whiskey to most people and they’ll likely think of the Scottish stuff or, perhaps, Kentucky bourbon. Suggest “Ireland” and many will think of beer, or to be more specific, the black ale known ...