Get your jiggers and bar spoons ready. Joe Gunner from the Portobello Star in London is back. He’ll guide you through our new cocktail recipe: FLYING HIGH. Show off your expertise to your dad this Father’s Day!
FLYING HIGH
A spiced old-fashioned style drink.
40mls The Wild Geese Soldiers & Heroes Rare Irish Whiskey
20mls Domaine De Canton
10mls Benedictine
4 drops orange & mandarin bitters
Stir all ingredients, strain into a rocks glass over ice and garnish with an orange twist.
Fathers are heroes for more than one day. Treat him to a ‘Flying High’ this weekend!
FLYING HIGH
A spiced old-fashioned style drink.
40mls The Wild Geese Soldiers & Heroes Rare Irish Whiskey
20mls Domaine De Canton
10mls Benedictine
4 drops orange & mandarin bitters
Stir all ingredients, strain into a rocks glass over ice and garnish with an orange twist.
Shay from Elixir is back with another cocktail recipe – The Bentley. Based on an Old Fashioned cocktail mix, Shay uses our Rare Irish and brings you an Untamed flavour you don’t want to miss!
Shay is one of the star barmen at Elixir in San Francisco. He mixed up a sensational cocktail using our Classic Blend – The Tipperary. It’s a classic cocktail with a Wild twist.
Check out our video and treat yourself to the The Tipperary.
2 oz. Classic Blend whiskey
3/4 oz. sweet vermouth
1/2 oz. green Chartreuse
Ice cubes
Tools: mixing glass, barspoon, strainer
Glass: cocktail
Garnish: lemon twist
Combine ingredients in an ice-filled mixing glass and stir. Strain into a chilled glass and garnish.
Gerry Crawford is one of today’s Wild Geese who left Ireland to work in Bahrain and Cyprus, before returning to Dublin in 2009. He’s an embodiment of the Wild Geese story we celebrate and it was great reading his answers! Thank you for taking part Gerry!
Click here to read issue 78 of The Moodie Report
Like us, The Moodie Report‘s Vice Chairman Dermot Davitt is a huge fan of Tom Crean – an outstanding Antarctic explorer. Check out his answers from our column in the Moodie Report’s e-zine. Thanks for your contribution Dermot!
Click here to read issue 77 of The Moodie Report
We were the proud sponsors of the 10th Annual St Patrick’s Day Party at Elixir in San Francisco. Elixir is regarded as one of the best saloon bars in the world. It’s steeped in history and great place to hang out with experienced bar tenders who know a great drink when they see one.
Elixir’s bar manager, H. Joseph Ehrmann talks us through our Collection of Irish Whiskeys as we share with you highlights from this fantastic weekend!
‘It’s nice to have a range of expressions in an Irish whiskey. I really enjoy the Single Malt in particular. The Classic Blend I’ve made in a lot of different cocktails, it mixes really well and holds up as a nice hot whiskey. All in all I would say that I’m really impressed with the line’
Alec Denby is next up in our column in The Moodie Report‘s e-zine. He’s one of today’s ambitious Wild Geese, aiming for the moon! Good luck Alec!
Click here to read issue 76 of The Moodie Report
A big thank you to Gemma Whelehan who has contributed to our column in The Moodie Report‘s e-zine. Some great answers, especially the greatest sight she’s seen on her travels: ‘the green of Ireland after 18 months in Australia on my first time away’
Click here to read issue 75 of The Moodie Report e-zine
Image from Thais Aranjo2 via Flickr Creative Commons
Our story begins in 1691 when Patrick Sarsfield and his followers left Ireland, hoping and believing that they would one day return. Since then countless ‘Wild Geese’ have left Ireland, their extraordinary stories being interwoven with the Legend of The Wild Geese.
Recently Hollywood (that’s Hollywood Co. Wicklow) mega-star Tom Cruise discovered his Wild Geese story when he was presented with a ‘Certificate of Irish Heritage’ during his visit to Dublin for the Irish premiere of Oblivion.
‘It was incredible. As a gift they went and researched my family. They traced my family back to the ninth century in Ireland
‘I had no idea it went back that far. I found our my ancestors were the rulers on north Ireland and they owned a town called Hollywood [in Co. Wicklow]‘
As it turns out, one of Cruise’s ancestors, Patrick Russell Cruise, was most definitely a ‘Man of Action’, as he explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live:
‘He was in New York and this guy who helped with running the family estates wanted to throw the tenants off the farm and he got on a boat, went all the way back, reinstated the tenants on the farm, fired the lawyer and they had this big dinner for him’
His family owned most of Dublin and genealogists showed Cruise the location of the family castle on a map, which he is keen to visit one day.
‘To learn about the history of my family – it was incredible. It’s a great honour for me and my whole family – I can’t wait to bring it back to them and enlighten them on their history… I’m very proud to be Irish. There’s pride in America of being Irish. I can’t wait to come back and I want to visit the land of my ancestors and the castle that they held’.