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"FacebookPinterest\n\nIrish whiskey has always had its place: in Irish car bombs, for instance (they taste like a milkshake, dammit!), or streaming down the gullet of an exasperated Jimmy McNulty. But a conversation about top-notch whiskies, alongside top-shelf bourbons and scotches, is terra incognita for most Irish booze. Michael Collins single malt, a self-proclaimed &amp;quot;heroic spirit&amp;quot; named for the man who signed Ireland into independence, might just change that.\n\nAged for a minimum of eight years in oak casks\u2014formerly bourbon barrels\u2014Michael Collins challenges the notion that Scotland and, in recent years, Japan are the only countries capable of producing a worthy single malt. A sip of the stuff is ridiculously smooth, and despite the slight hints of citrus and vanilla, the taste is medium-bodied and less complex than some of its sippin\u2019-whiskey brethren\u2014in a good way. At 80 proof, it\u2019s not an overpowering spirit, however heroic it may be, and the lightly peated barley lends a gentle smokiness to the whiskey. And the sleek missile-like bottle is ribbed (for your pleasure?), so it\u2019ll never slip out of hand, no matter what round you\u2019re on."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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