January 2012
New Team Memebers
at Innis & Gunn
Innis & Gunn
Irish Whiskey Cask
A Message From Tony
Happy New Year!
Dan is travelling to distributor meetings this month (in his words he has ‘a lot of windshield time’) so I took the opportunity to usurp the editor’s chair in his absence. So you may find some odd English spelling creeps into this newsletter.
I can remember a time when in this beverage industry you could crawl back into the office in the New Year and quietly hibernate until sprin
g but now it’s become one of the busiest months of the year. Thankfully we love what we do. When you are at school they never tell you that you will be able to spend your adult life thinking about beer, talking about beer, tasting beer, and getting paid to do it.
2012 looks like being a very exciting year. We are getting rave reviews for our Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey Cask. Like a parent I am not supposed to have favourites (that’s an English spelling) but I think it’s the best beer we have ever brewed. Over Christmas my brother-in-law not only drank and enjoyed it, but he asked to buy a case i.e. actually pay for it-so I knew we were on to a winner.
Over Christmas, our founder and brewer, Dougal Sharp came across an old and battered book (a book so old that it wasn’t electronic) which contains recipes for beer-making from ‘auld’ Scotland. As an Englishman, I have noticed that these Scots know a thing or two about making drink (they invented Single Malt Whiskey and illicit distilling) and some of these old recipes sound mouth-watering. So, fingers crossed, I think that we have some great new beers to look forward to this year.
So what is there in this newsletter? We are going to introduce some new people who have joined Innis & Gunn USA in the last couple of months. Then we found that Beer Connoisseur magazine had published an interesting article on Innis & Gunn before Christmas, and we have asked them if we can reprint it here (they are also making a special discount subscription offer to readers of our newsletter, see below). Finally we have published the full details of Irish Whiskey Cask, which has now landed in the USA. Interestingly in the photography the beer looks to be a deep tan colour, presumably because the photographer has beamed some retina-destroying light beam through it, but in real life, in the glass-and I can speak from experience-the beer looks as black as night.
Cheers!
Tony Hunt
Usurping Editor
Chairman of Innis & Gunn
New Team Members at Innis & Gunn 
Since December we have brought three new players into the Innis & Gunn team in the USA. All three of them are passionate about Innis & Gunn beer and want to help the trade introduce the brand to beer drinkers in the USA.
Our three managers are:
New York:
Lauren Pattwell
Brand Development Manager
Pascual Figueroa
Brand Development Manager
New England:
Brian Collatos
New England Sales Manager
Innis & Gunn Feature Story in Beer Connoisseur Magazine
Click on the article to view full size.
REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION
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Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey Cask
Innis & Gunn Irish Whiskey Cask is now in the USA with a wide-scale program of tastings and events lined up for February and March. Deep, dark, intense velvet chocolate, on the nose and on the palate, wonderfully balanced by the vanilla and oakiness that you always find in Innis & Gunn.
Malts: Chocolate malt and roast barley.
Hops: Fuggles
ABV: 7.4%
Vol: 330ml (basket pack)
IBU: 26
Wood: Rare barrels that had previously been used to mature triple distilled Irish Whiskey.
Aged: 60 days.
Maturation: Three separate maturations follow fermentation: oak maturation, cold maturation and in a bottle.
Nose: Chocolate and treacle with notes and vanilla and oak.
Palate: Rich and intense dark chocolate flavour complemented by an almost soothing oak, vanilla sweetness.
Finish: Long, complex and satisfying. The roast character mellows with time leaving a lingering oaky sweetness.
Food Matches: Rich or spicy slow cooked stews of beef, pork or lamb. Oysters, Treacle pudding, Blue cheese.
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Upcoming Events:
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Saturday-Sunday, January 28-29, 2012
Sun Winefest
Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT -
Saturday, February 4, 2012
International Great Beer Expo: Meadowlands
Session 1: 12:30PM - 4:00PM; Session 2: 5:30PM - 9:00PM
Meadowlands Convention Center, Secaucus, NJ
www.GreatBeerExpo.com/meadowlands -
Saturday February 4, 2012
Innis & Gunn Tasting
12:00PM - 2:00PM
All Star Beverages
821 Nepperhan Ave., Yonkers, NY -
Saturday February 4, 2012
Innis & Gunn Tasting
2:30PM - 4:30PM
Harrison Beverage Center
53 Halstead Ave., Harrison, NY -
Saturday February 11, 2012
Innis & Gunn Tasting
2:00PM - 5:00PM
Stew Leonard's
1 Stew Leonard Dr., Yonkers, NY -
Friday February 17, 2012
Innis & Gunn Tasting
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Rockland Beverage
57 Lake Rd., Congers, NY -
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Philly Craft Beer Festival
VIP: 12:30PM - 5PM; General Session: 1:30PM - 5PM
Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA
www.PhillyCraftBeerFest.com -
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival
VIP noon General Admission 2:00pm
Atlantic Station - Atlanta, GA -
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Spring Craft Beer Festival
Session 1: 12:30PM - 4:00PM; Session 2: 5:30PM - 9:00PM
Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY
www.SpringCraftBeerFestival.com
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