We Tasted Hundreds of Whiskeys. Redbreast 18-Year-Old Is the Best Irish Whiskey of the Year

For the Men’s Journal Spirits Awards, every year my writers and I look for the best bottles of liquor across a number of different categories. It’s fascinating to see which expressions get added to our lists and which ones get removed. 

But when it comes to Irish whiskey, over the last several years there has been one major constant — each time a Redbreast Single Pot Still Whiskey has been named best overall Irish whiskey. This is quite an accomplishment given that there are now dozens of...