In a recent job with Jameson Whiskey, I learned that two heads are said to be better than one, and this particular whiskey adds serious weight to that argument. Emerging from a conversation between Jameson Whiskey's head distiller and the head brewer of Cork’s Franciscan Well Brewery, Jameson Caskmates has been finished in stout-seasoned whiskey casks. While the triple-distilled smoothness is very much intact, notes of cocoa, coffee and butterscotch confirm the stout influence.
Caskmates is a head-turning, modern Irish whiskey.