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Dick Mack’s Pub – Great Northern Distillery
We are very proud to announce our latest Dick Mack’s exclusive bottling, the third in our series.
In August 2017, we laid down our only grain whiskey to date with Great Northern distillery and left it
to grow. Now park that for a moment.
Our previous bottling was a collaboration with the lads from Redacted and was a Dingle whiskey
which was finished in a sauternes cask for almost 4 years.
We then took that sauternes cask, brewed a limited edition oak smoked stout, and inspired by the
legendary Willie Murphy who admitted that he hadn’t seen a grain whiskey ever placed in a stout
cask previously, we put that stout into the sauternes cask for a further 5 months in order to finish it.
Our aim with this is to balance the sweetness of the grain whiskey and the sauternes cask with the
malty flavour of the stout adding a touch of smoke in the process. And we believe that we have
more than succeeded.
This single grain whiskey, in similar fashion to our very first ever Dingle bottling has been bottled for
you at 57.15% abv which In England led to a “proof” spirit being officially defined as a one that was
12/13th the gravity of an equal volume of distilled water when measured at 11°C (51°F). In other
words, this amounted to about 57% abv being defined as a “100 proof” spirit in the United Kingdom.
Our label, in its third iteration, has a wren which has fluttered from letter to letter from its previous
locations and is symbolic of the biggest day of the year here in Dingle, ‘the Wren Day’ also St.
Stephen’s Day. A fishing trawler is seen on the top right hand corner, symbolising the town as a
fishing one and also to recognise the boats which transported wines from Spain to Dingle over one
hundred years ago, as sauternes is after all a desert wine. The red sides on the front label signify the
customer entering the pub through its red front doors.
Welcome.
