Naming an Irish whiskey after a toad might seem peculiar. But the natterjack — a species native to Ireland with a distinctive yellow stripe running down its back — lends its name to a new Irish ...

Dylan Ettinger is a Los Angeles-based writer specializing in spirits, cocktails, and coffee with hands-on experience visiting distilleries and bars across the US, Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Whiskey is a distilled spirit made from grains like corn and rye and aged in wooden barrels. Bourbon is a type of whiskey, and there are strict rules in place to ensure its quality. Bourbon must be ...

Irish single malt whiskey is one of the fastest-growing whiskey categories worldwide. Five whiskeys are finalists for the World’s Best Irish Single Malt Whiskey at the 2025 San Francisco World Spirits ...

Founded by Irish ex-pat Aidan Mehigan, Natterjack is an outlier in the Irish Whiskey category, producing a more Bourbon-forward Irish Whiskey using Irish and American techniques. A year ago, Aidan ...

In 2022 the Louisville-based spirits company Sazerac—owner of more than 500 brands globally, including such legendary names in bourbon as Buffalo Trace and Eagle Rare—made its first foray into Ireland ...