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Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Luke Gough » Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:43 pm

caskstrength.net has a review here: http://caskstrength.blogspot.com/2011/09/pot-still-o-morning.html :thumbsup:

Any sign of this in an siopa?
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby John » Sat Oct 01, 2011 3:26 pm

Haven't seen it anywhere yet Luke, which is a pity. I had hoped to pick up a bottle earlier in the week as I was heading away to visit friends.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby IrishWhiskeyChaser » Sat Oct 01, 2011 10:16 pm

I got mine sorted ... but that is not much good to ye :P

I actually arranged for it not to be released in Dublin as I want it all :lol:

Wo wo wo ha ha haaaa (evil laugh) :D
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby matt » Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:25 pm

IrishWhiskeyChaser wrote:I got mine sorted ... but that is not much good to ye :P

I actually arranged for it not to be released in Dublin as I want it all :lol:

Wo wo wo ha ha haaaa (evil laugh) :D


:lol: :lol: :lol:

Hope that V.I.P. status makes you happy :!: :!:

We will all get it ;)

By the way, how are you getting on with the IWS T-shirt :?:

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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby damienmcguigan » Mon Oct 03, 2011 8:51 pm

Whisky exchange notes on it here
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby rathbeggan » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:37 am

I was told I had bought the first bottle in the CWS yesterday at lunch time. €69.95.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby JohnM » Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:45 pm

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Why is there a cork in the top of the bottle and on the table beside it? Apart from that, it's a great whiskey. A great whiskey.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby matt » Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:28 am

How many bottles would you get out of 68 casks :?:
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Michael Foggarty » Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:21 pm

It would depend on how many sherry barrels they used, but on average only 3% of midleton distilate is filled into sherry. So allow for 4 cask at 400 litres and the rest 200 litres you would have about 14,400 litres which 20,571 bottles before you factor in the angels share of 2% per annum they could have yielded about 17,000 bottles
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby JohnM » Sun Oct 09, 2011 4:45 pm

I think the regular Redbreast 12 is 2/3rds sherry, 1/3 bourbon. Assuming they're not talking about puncheons etc.

A bourbon barrel holds around 200 litres, and a sherry butt holds around 500 litres, then the proportion of sherry butts to bourbon barrels would be 6:5...

So, that would make it 37 sherry butts to 31 bourbon barrels. Which would be 18,000 litres of sherry-matured whiskey to 6,200 litres of bourbon-matured whiskey - totalling 24,700 litres of whiskey. Then if 2% is lost per year... I presume that's compounded, so it would work out at 19,380 at the end of 12 years. That would work out at 27,685 bottles.

All of this could be wrong, however. It assumes the sherry butts used are 500 litres and the bourbon barrels 200 litres.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby JohnM » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:07 pm

...there was a tasting with Barry Walsh a few years ago when he said, I think, Redbreast was one part first-fill sherry cask, one part second-fill sherry cask and one part bourbon... Can anyone confirm if I've remembered this correctly?
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby JohnM » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:49 pm

"This first batch of Redbreast Cask Strength yielded approximately 18,000 bottles or approximately 1,400 9L case equivalents."

Oh well. All my mathematics for nothing.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby matt » Sun Oct 09, 2011 8:11 pm

Thank you all for your reply. :thumbsup:

and John, mathematics, important is that i learnt something about whiskey again.

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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Luke Gough » Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:57 am

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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Liam Murray » Fri Oct 14, 2011 11:54 am

Good morning from Kilkenny. We are very pleased to let you all know that the Redbreast Cask Strength will be on tasting for the Society visit to Kilkenny. It just gets better. Liam
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby JohnM » Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:43 pm

Redbreast 12 Year Old Cask Strength, 57.7%, €75

... this is the knockout blow, an immense take on the wonderful Redbreast ... I can’t think if I’ve ever tasted a better Irish whiskey. —Dominic Roskrow

Advanced Whisky Advocate magazine rating: 96


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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Luke Gough » Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:55 am

Here's a solid recommendation from the Edinburgh Whisky Blog:

http://www.edinburghwhiskyblog.com/2011/10/11/bringing-redbreast-home-to-the-parents/
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Good Whiskey Hunting » Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:08 pm

I got mine from Liam in Kilkenny recently.I think it was about €60 or so too.great value considering I was blind as a welder's dog drunk after a couple of glasses.I'm learning to respect it now.
Cheers Liam ,I try get up before Christmas to replenish stocks.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Good Whiskey Hunting » Sat Jan 14, 2012 8:40 pm

Here's a review for the Cask Strength from Cigar aficionado that a friend of mine sent me today. Good to see it reaching another niche market.

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatu ... w?id=16319

I don't know about all their details " Redbreast, the only remaining traditional Irish pot still whiskey" ,Mitchells may not agree with that.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Liam Murray » Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:13 pm

Willie I have been out of circulation, Happy New Year. Anyone who happens to be in Kilkenny can call into The Wine Centre and sample the cask strength Redbreast, for those of you in Cork, watch this space, rgds , Liam.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Good Whiskey Hunting » Sat Jan 14, 2012 11:25 pm

Happy new tear to you and yous. I'll be In the Marble City within the next few weeks hopefully to replenish my stocks after Christmas.
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby JohnM » Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:37 pm

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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby Pudge72 » Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:21 pm



Excellent! It will make it easier for me to find when my wife and I travel to Ireland sometime in 2013 (that is at least the plan). :thumbsup:
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Re: Redbreast 12 Cask Strength

Postby DavidH » Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:35 pm

Pudge72 wrote:Excellent! It will make it easier for me to find when my wife and I travel to Ireland sometime in 2013 (that is at least the plan). :thumbsup:

Traditionally, the Irish Whiskey Society meets on the last Thursday of every month in Dublin. Maybe you can time your visit to coincide with that... :)
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