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"Tube":lq6aiz8x wrote: Not sure if this falls within Beoir's remit[/quote:lq6aiz8x]It doesn't because the mechanics of whiskey production is a minefield. I'm told it's pretty much impossible to trace provenance reliably.

"Tube":lq6aiz8x wrote: there really is a need for an organisation that will represent this type of small industry's best interested[/quote:lq6aiz8x]Have you tried the Irish Whiskey Society[/url:lq6aiz8x]? I get the impression they're not interested in separating "craft" whiskey from industrial whiskey because the lines are impossibly blurred.

"TheBeerNut":8fek4st3 wrote:

"Tube":8fek4st3 wrote: Not sure if this falls within Beoir's remit[/quote:8fek4st3]It doesn't because the mechanics of whiskey production is a minefield. I'm told it's pretty much impossible to trace provenance reliably.

"Tube":8fek4st3 wrote: there really is a need for an organisation that will represent this type of small industry's best interested[/quote:8fek4st3]Have you tried the Irish Whiskey Society[/url:8fek4st3]? I get the impression they're not interested in separating "craft" whiskey from industrial whiskey because the lines are impossibly blurred.[/quote:8fek4st3]

By putting a definition on what "craft" is, you can separate craft from (what you're rightly calling) industrial whiskey by a simple change in the law. It happened in microbrewing: Under a certain amount you're craft, over it and you're not.

The actual changes in law are the easy bit (if Brian Cowen can...) -- it's the lobbying to get the changes made that's the hard bit. Not so much the hard bit really, as currently it's nobody's job because the craft whiskey industry doesn't exist...

You could say in essence there is no whiskey equivalent of the Porterhouse (who lobbied Brian Cowen successfully).

In the absence of a well-formed vested interest to do the lobbying, there is a need for someone to step up to plate and get the whiskey laws reformed too.

My 2c.