Jameson trivia

[JohnM]

From Facebook...

Jameson Irish Whiskey
What is the significance of the digits JQ-058548 that appear on every bottle of Jameson? This is no big secret actually. The number on the neck label JQ-058548 does not hold any major significance today. Up until 1987, it did register sequential batch numbers, now this number has just become part of the neck label on each and every bottle. So you see Jameson doesn’t keep secrets!

[DavidH]

Where's that on Facebook? I'm following Jameson Ireland which posts the greatest load of rubbish. Nothing as informative as that.

[JohnM]

I think there arw a few different Jameson facebook pages. I am not sure which one this is.

[JohnM]

http://www.facebook.com/jamesonwhiskey

[IrishWhiskeyChaser]

From Facebook...

Jameson Irish Whiskey
What is the significance of the digits JQ-058548 that appear on every bottle of Jameson? This is no big secret actually. The number on the neck label JQ-058548 does not hold any major significance today. Up until 1987, it did register sequential batch numbers, now this number has just become part of the neck label on each and every bottle. So you see Jameson doesn’t keep secrets!

Well that cleared up that then ...

I think there arw a few different Jameson facebook pages. I am not sure which one this is.

I think that is the problem with facebook ... anybody can set up a Jameson page but figuring out which is the official offical one is sometimes hard to guess.

[JohnM]

More trivia... Part of an old engine that was used in the Bow Street Distillery is now in the Engineering Block in UCD. I have passed it I don't know how many times without finding out what it was, and before Christmas found out it was from the distillery.

[DavidH]

That I did know. It arrived in the UCD Eng department the same year I did. I have some notes on it somewhere, I think, if you want me to hunt them out.

[JohnM]

Get hunting.

[DavidH]

First a couple of pics...

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[DavidH]

Without repeating what's in that photo...

This was a very old-fashioned engine when installed, being almost identical to the beam engines of James Watt from 100 years before. This was because it was installed on the site of an earlier engine and reused the older low-powered boilers and had to fit in the same space.

[... a bunch of technical detail...]

In 1896 the distillery centralised its boilerhouse and the engine had some minor modifications made. The flywheel was replaced by a heavier one from Hick, Hargreaves of Bolton in 1908.

The engine operated from 25 to 32 rpm, 175hp and was regularly used until 1932 and very occasionally for several years after that.

It is, apparently, the only Irish-made beam engine now in existence.

[JohnM]

Very good. I took some pictures recently too, but you've got better ones there.

[Good Whiskey Hunting]

From Facebook...

Jameson Irish Whiskey
What is the significance of the digits JQ-058548 that appear on every bottle of Jameson? This is no big secret actually. The number on the neck label JQ-058548 does not hold any major significance today. Up until 1987, it did register sequential batch numbers, now this number has just become part of the neck label on each and every bottle. So you see Jameson doesn’t keep secrets!

I anyone has an interest in collecting Jameson with a Batch number different to the JQ-058548 here's 4 in one lot for auction

http://www.morphets.co.uk/BidCat/detail ... LotRef=210

[rathbeggan]

What is the significance of the digits JQ-058548 that appear on every bottle of Jameson?

At the IWS Tullamore Dew tasting last year, John Quinn, then IDL employee, now Tullamore Dew "brand ambassador", intimated (he may even have said) that JQ came from his initials. I can't remember the exact circumstances, it may have been the initial of the employee checking the batch.