Tag Archives: Ireland

DRINK IN DUBLIN DAY 1: Stag’s Head and the Celtic Whiskey Shop: EU Austerity Drinking Tour #29

Posted on July 8, 2013 by waywardwine

For this Monday’s EU Austerity Drinking Tour, we leave Derry in Northern Ireland for Ireland’s beer capital: Dublin. Our bus loops us through green pastures, lazy hills, and riverbeds. We reach Dublin that afternoon and catch the metro to our … Continue reading →

Posted in Ireland, WINERIES WANDERED | Tagged Celtic Whiskey Shop, Dame Lane, Derry, Dublin, Guinness, Ireland, Irish Pub, Kilkenny, Kilkenny GAA, Northern Ireland, Stag's Head, Temple Bar, Trinity College | 7 Comments

LONDONDERRY CALLING: EU Austerity Drinking Tour #28

Posted on July 1, 2013 by waywardwine

Our Seven Month EU Austerity Drinking Tour continues. Last Monday’s post covered a visit to Bushmills Distillery and the Giant’s Causeway. This Monday, my wife and I cut North, to the burnt borderland between the United Kingdom and Ireland: Londonderry. … Continue reading →

Posted in Ireland, WINERIES WANDERED | Tagged Bloody Sunday, Bogside, Bono, David Cameron, Derry, Free Derry, Giant Causeway, Guinness, IRA, Ireland, London, Lundy the Traitor, Sunday Bloddy Sunday, Troubles, U2, United States | 2 Comments

BUSHMILLS: Distillery Visit and Review, 10 Year 12 Year Whiskeys: EU Austerity Drinking Tour #26

Posted on June 24, 2013 by waywardwine

Our trip brings us to the Giant’s Causeway: a collection of basalt columns cutting into the sea. Volcanic activity forced them up 50 million years ago. Then rapid cooling cracked them like dry mud into over 40,000 hexagonal pillars. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Scotland, Whisk(e)y, WINERIES WANDERED | Tagged Bushmills, Diageo, Food, Giant Causeway, Giant's Causeway, Ireland, Irish whiskey, North Channel, Northern Ireland, Old Bushmills Distillery, Recreation, River Bush, Scotland, Whisky | 5 Comments

Laphroaig Whisky, Quarter Cask Single Malt, Islay Country: Scotland UK: EU Austerity Drinking Tour #25

Posted on June 17, 2013 by waywardwine

We harbor an illegal alien. I worried that customs would confiscate it at the ferry terminal. Traveling on foot could have hurt it. Letting it loose in Belfast’s hostel risked too much. But now, at the Giant’s Causeway, it can finally … Continue reading →

Posted in Scotland, Whisk(e)y, WINERIES WANDERED | Tagged Ballantines, Belfast, Bells, Charlton Heston, Dewars, Glenlivet, Great North of Scotland Railway, Ireland, Islay, Johnnie Walker, Laphroaig, Quarter Cask, Scotch, Scotch whisky, Scotland, Single Malt, Single malt whisky, Teachers, Whisky | 4 Comments

BELFAST BRIEFLY: Crown Bar, Hilden Brewery, Parliament, Whitewater Brewery: EU Austerity Drinking Tour #24

Posted on June 10, 2013 by waywardwine

Welcome to Northern Ireland! Home to Belfast and beer Mecca: The Crown Bar: In last week’s post, trains, buses, and ferries took us from Aberdeen to Skye Island and then south to Belfast in Northern Ireland…in three days. Our Belfast … Continue reading →