I hope to nurture, support and encourage in new role
As food writer, broadcaster and author Caroline Hennessy takes up her role as Chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, KATE RYAN catches up with her to find out where her career began
Journalist, broadcaster and author Caroline Hennessy.
Kate Ryan
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, 2005. A car crash leaves Caroline Hennessy with a fractured skull and significant memory and language loss. A life-long love of words and writing, which led to opportunities in RTÉ and Newstalk, among others, was reset language had to be relearned.
A friend suggested setting up a food blog, something she had long considered, as a form of occupational therapy.
Irish Distillers Teams Up With Eight Degrees Brewing For Second Jameson Crested Collaboration
Irish Distillers Teams Up With Eight Degrees Brewing For Second Jameson Crested Collaboration
Irish Distillers recently partnered up with Eight Degrees Brewing to create a second experimental limited edition of Jameson Crested.
Jameson Crested Finished in Devil’s Ladder Belgian Tripel Barrels is the result of Jameson Crested maturing in the beer-soaked barrels of Eight Degree’s Devil’s Ladder Belgian Tripel for four months, allowing for a taste profile of abundant spices, floral hops and sweetness, while the oak and malt work in tandem to add a toasted cereal character, according to official tasting notes.
Jameson unveils second beer barrel-finished whiskey 23rd April, 2021 by Nicola Carruthers
Irish Distillers has created its second beer barrel-finished Jameson Crested whiskey with Eight Degrees Brewing.
The new whiskey is recommended served neat or paired with a beer
The new Jameson Crested Finished in Devil’s Ladder Belgian Tripel Barrels whiskey is the second bottling created in partnership between the County Cork-based producers.
In September 2020, Pernod Ricard’s Irish Distillers arm and Eight Degrees Brewing unveiled a stout barrel-finished expression of Jameson Crested Irish whiskey.
Eight Degrees Brewing was acquired by Irish Distillers in 2018 to ‘secure a long-term supply of craft beer following the runaway global success of the Caskmates series’.