Aeneas Coffey
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Aeneas Coffey was an Irish excise official, inventor and distiller. He is known for patenting the Coffey still, which is named after him, and which remains widely used globally.
Aeneas Coffey
Irish whiskey
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Irish whiskey is whiskey made on the island of Ireland. The word 'whiskey' comes from the Irish uisce beatha, meaning water of life. Irish whiskey was once the most popular spirit in the world, though
Aeneas Coffey
…was prevalent. Between 1820 and 1824, he provided evidence to Parliamentary Commissions on distilling matters, including standardizing the spellings of Irish whiskey and Scotch whisky. His 1822 report gained support from Irish distillers. Coffey helped draft the 1823 Excise Act, which legalized distillation under…
Three Irish whiskeys: Knappogue Castle, Jameson, and Bushmills
Erskine Nicol – A Nip Against the Cold – An Irishman pouring whiskey 1869. Part of Erskine Nicol Irish collection, painting of Irish life.
The Old Midleton Distillery, built in 1825, hosts a mammoth 31,618 gallon Pot still, so big that the still room needed to be built around it. Although no longer in use, it remains in place inside the old distillery building.
Jameson's Bow Street distillery pictured in Alfred Barnard's 1887 report on the distilleries of Britain and Ireland