I just bought a 750 ml bottle of Slieve Foy's Single Malt Irish Whiskey 46% ACV and tried a neat wee dram last evening - and I pronounce it Very Good and Very Affordable!!
then while doing this post I searched the internet to see what the wide world had to say about this lovely whiskey and lo and behold at:
I read the following -
"It is no more. Shortly after I waxed lyrical about Slieve Foy and all things Irish whisky to the Indianapolis Star recently, I learned that production had finally ceased. It was terribly sad; almost like the passing of a dear friend.
But what prompted the demise of this whiskey? Money. Beam Global,
owners of Jim Beam and many other spirit brands, decided that they would
really like a slice of the burgeoning Irish whiskey market, which has
seen tremendous growth over the past few years. The only available
distillery to buy was the small, independent Cooley distillery. Beam
bought the distillery in late 2011, and with it went independent
distilling in Ireland. Up to that point, John Teeling, Cooley’s founder,
had bought the rights to and resurrected many long-forgotten whiskey
brands, much to the delight of whiskey fans at home and abroad. Many old
brands had started to pop up again, like our best-selling value brand
of the last few years. Do you remember Merry’s Irish whiskey?
However, it didn’t make financial or marketing sense for Beam to
produce many smaller brands. No, what they needed was a flagship whiskey
which could compete on a global scale with Jameson. Kilbeggan, the
blend named after the Old Kilbeggan Distillery in the heart of Ireland,
was chosen to serve as Jameson’s arch rival. It takes a lot of marketing
money to pit oneself against the best-known whiskey in Ireland, but it
also takes an ocean of whiskey. The production volume needed to meet the
demand of this brand over the next few years meant that there would be
casualties: Michael Collins, Merry’s, Clontarf, Slane Castle, Millar’s
and Slieve Foy, to name just a few. Simply put, Beam needs every drop of
whisky it can get its hands on to supply the Kilbeggan brand."
As I am typing I am thinking that I will go back and buy some more of this for it sounds like it is all over but the shouting. Damn!!
