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The Portland Regency Hotel & Spa at 90 Milk St. in the Old Port has opened a whiskey bar.
Michael Silver, the hotel’s food and beverage director, says Ironside Whiskey Bar was part of a multimillion-dollar remodel of the lobby. The bar stocks well over 100 whiskeys, as well as a few high-end sipping tequilas and cognacs. Can’t make up your mind? The bar sells flights.
And if the pandemic has made us all start a bucket list, Ironside may be able to help whiskey lovers with theirs. One of the whiskeys the bar stocks is Double Eagle Very Rare, which costs $2,000 per bottle. Aged 20 years, only 199 bottles of this whiskey were made, Silver says, and just two bottles are in Maine. A one-ounce pour will set you back $400. The bar served its first glass weekend before last, Silver said.