Tasted at Saratoga Whiskey Club Tasting # 110 - Two Stacks Irish Whiskey, hosted by Donal McLynn of Ireland Craft Beverages, live via Zoom. This is a sourced whiskey from Great Northern Distillery in Ireland; and it is blended by Two Stacks, an independent bottler and a subsidiary of Ireland Craft Beverages. From Two Stacks: Two Stacks was created by three longtime friends at the forefront of reinvigorating and reimagining the historically calcified Irish beverage industry. Taking their name from the twin smokestacks of historic Old Dundalk Distillery—stacks so tall they used to act as landmarks guiding ships to port—Two Stacks aims to guide modern consumers to the welcoming waters of Ireland’s best whiskies with an emphasis on transparency and integrity in sourcing. Reinvesting in the blending process as artisanal rather than industrial, every step of their production is done traditionally: by hand, by taste, and by smell. This Irish Whiskey is made from a single distillate (95% corn / 5% malted barley) sourced from Cooley. It was matured for 12 years in an ex-bourbon barrel, then finished in a Buffalo Trace Sazerac Rye barrel. This is sold as part of the "Time Well Spent" kit, which consists of 2 200-ml bottles, one is this whiskey, the other is a 20-year-old single malt rum cask finish whiskey. The price for the two bottles is $125. So, I scaled the price above, based upon a 50/50 split between the two bottles, and scaled up to an equivalent 700 ml bottle. Photo courtesy of Two Stacks.