Fionnán O'Connor is a respected historian of Irish whiskey. He has not only consumed a lot of it, but has carefully studied its production over the centuries. For this doctoral program at Technological University Dublin, he has revived many old whiskeys from "mashbills", which are lists of ingredients that distillers used. Irish Central quotes him about the project:
"We’re talking to ghosts by distilling these mashbills again," O'Connor said.
"The mashbills chosen are creating a map, a language about how all these things might have worked," he said.
"The bulk of these mashbills haven’t been tasted in over 70 years and the earliest ones I’ve found come from the early 1800s.
"It would be a shame if all that history and those flavors were lost. This project has been about making up for lost time."
-via Atlas Obscura | Image: Boann Distillery
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