Paddy is one of the world’s best-selling Irish whiskeys. Made using purely Irish processes, Paddy has powerful, peaty aromas. A brief presentation of this Irish whiskey from Cork.
Midleton’s Distillery Company Old Irish Whiskey was founded in Cork in 1825. At the time, it produced a fairly strong whiskey, based on triple distillation techniques. Wishing to market its spirit in most of the region’s pubs, the distillery decided to recruit a number of salesmen, charged with extolling the merits of their beverage.
Among them is Paddy Flaherty, an Irishman with an easy manner and a commercial spirit. His presence alone was enough to propel the distillery’s sales to unprecedented heights! The latter is indeed making the rounds of the local pubs, joking and chatting good-naturedly with the managers… Her kindness, coupled with her sense of humor, are powerful assets, enabling her to close many sales with these establishments.
So much so that Paddy Flaherty became, in the eyes of the Cork pubs, the emblematic figure of the distillery!
It was not until many years later, in 1912, that the Cork distillery decided to rename its whiskey Paddy, in homage to the salesman who literally made sales of their whiskey take off…
Nowadays, Paddy is still a staple of Irish whiskey.
Paddy is produced using an Irish-style triple distillation method, in which the beverage is run through a still 3 times. Particularly strong (reaching no less than 80 degrees!), Paddy is a rather robust, light-colored single malt. It’s served in most Irish pubs, and can sometimes be mixed with other beverages to make cocktails.
Paddy whiskey is very reasonably priced. Far behind Jameson or Tullamore, Paddy suffers from a lack of interest from whiskey lovers, who sometimes deplore its lack of subtlety…
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