Month: June 2022

  • 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Competition – Gold Medallion for Jack Ryan 12YO

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    Eunan Ryan with the much decorated 12 Year Old Single Malt that has just added a 2017 San Francisco World Spirits Gold to the 2014 Irish Whiskey Award. Jim Murray had given it 92.5/100 in the 2016 Whiskey Bible.Jack Ryan Beggars Bush 12 Year Old Single Malt Irish Whiskey was launched in 2013, to celebrate the centenary of the Ryan family ownership of the iconic, historic Beggars Bush pub on Haddington Road Ballsbridge in Dublin. To their delight, it promptly won the Irish Whiskey Award for ‘single malts 12 year-old or under’, following a stringent blind-taste test under the auspices of the Celtic Whiskey Club and the Irish Whiskey Society. The San Francisco World Spirits competition attracted more than 2,100 entries, and the Gold was awarded by a prestigious panel of industry experts.Jack Ryan 12YO is available in Europe, North America and 16 other markets around the world, and is going from strength to strength. Jack Ryan would have been happy, as would his father Thomas Ryan, whose Ryan’s Malt was so popular in the locality all those years ago, revived now to multiple award-winning effect by grandson Eunan.

  • Toomevara – first of the Jack Ryan Generation Trilogy

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    Toomevara 10YO Single Malt aged in Bourbon and finished in Calvados is here (a collaboration with Château du Breuil of Normandy France).It’s the first of the Generation Trilogy, celebrating six generations of Ryans in whiskey. Next up – Haddington (11YO finished in Rum), then Finisher’s Touch (12YO finished in Madeira, through a collaboration with Justino’s).Toomevara is a small exclusive release of 3,500 numbered bottles signed by Eunan Ryan. Available in a limited number of outlets in Ireland (including Celtic Whiskey Shop, Dunnes, O’Briens, Classic Drinks, J&C Kenny, Green Acres), through Spirit of Harrogate in the UK, MAS in Europe and Pacific Edge in the USA, and to a limited degree in other countries worldwide.

  • Toomevara burnish

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    The latest award, Double Gold, best Single Malt Irish Whiskey in the 2019 San Fran World Spirits. In 2017, Jack Ryan 12 YO (bourbon age and finish) won Gold, and Jack Ryan The Bourdega 15YO (finished in Oloroso sherry) won Silver. We will continue to push the envelope, with classic, eclectic and new Ryan Finishes- small release and special cask.
    Check out the http://sfspiritscomp.com/about/judging-process/

  • New bottling line in action!

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    We are now in a position, in our Dublin Whiskey house, to select and match aged malt and Jack Ryan cask, keep a careful watch over maturation and finish, and – at last! – bottle each of our whiskeys when it is just right.

    First up will be a special Finca Museum 12YO cask. This will be the first of the Jack Ryan Special Cask Series. Further casks in this series will include Justino’s Madeira, Château du Breuil calvados, bourbon, Heytesbury rum, and more,
    And of course, the 2nd and 3rd parts of the Generation Trilogy, started to award-winning effect with Toomevara 10YO, will continue with Haddington 11YO and be completed by Finisher’s Touch 12YO. Numbered and signed by Eunan Ryan, MD and 5th generation Ryan scion, the Generation Trilogy follows the gratifying and peer-celebrated success of Jack Ryan 12YO, still available.