Michael Egan: Celebrating Irish History
Kilbeggan U.S. brand ambassador Michael Egan joined #TasteWithSpace on March 5 to demonstrate how to make an Irish coffee, and discuss the brand s single pot still whiskey.
Kilbeggan is Ireland’s oldest continually licensed distillery: It opened in 1757 and survived famine, world wars, Prohibition, and more before going silent in the 1950s. After being revived in 1989 and restarting distilling in 2007, it is now a leader of the
Irish whiskey renaissance. Brand ambassador Michael Egan joined Whisky Advocate’s
#TasteWithSpace Instagram Live series on March 5 to discuss Kilbeggan’s history and longevity.
“There were multiple opportunities for it to shut down and fail,” Egan said. “It’s a testament to the people that work there, the whiskey that they made, their level of resilience, [that they] never gave up and there was still that demand for Irish whiskey as a category and as a result, Kilbeggan.”