A Good Book You Can't Put Down: Writers' Tears Whiskey Copper Pot

If you've ever written for pleasure or even your job, you know sometimes the words won't stop spilling out. Try as you can, the fall from your brain like a waterfall. Your fingers catch as much as they can, but some ideas just spill onto the floor, roll under the couch, and are never seen again.

Other times, you sit motionless at a keyboard. No one home in the cranium. So, you open some internet tabs, play a game on your phone, and decide to rearrange the fridge in alphabetical order. The name of the whiskey hints more at these times, I think. It is a whiskey to help you through the dry patches.

Let me introduce you to Writer's Tears. Being one of five current iterations, I tried the Copper Pot version. Described on their website:

Writers’ Tears is a unique marriage of Aged Single Pot Still and Single Malt Irish whiskey. Distilled entirely from barley, both malted and unmalted, this is a truly special Irish Whiskey. Writers’ Tears is triple distilled, non-peated and matured in Flame Charred American Oak bourbon casks. An award-winning whiskey that has also been included in Ian Buxton’s publication “101 Whiskeys to try before you die”.

Writers' Tears Website

Walsh Whiskey produces both Writers' Tears and The Irishman. With Writers' Tears, I have now tried both brands - although not all the varieties. So far, they have all been solid offerings. In addition to the Copper Pot they have Double Oak and Cask Strength (both I would love to try) as well as Red Head and Japanese Cask. As of publishing, I can find the Double Oak in town. The Cask Strength seems to be more elusive.

Let's crack this open and check the cliff notes:

The nose: A strong idea for a story that hits you out of the blue. Warm and pungent, a nose not accustomed to a dram might be overwhelmed.

When it hits your pallet: Initial taste is sweet, almost sugary. A well thought out character who fits perfectly into the story.

Journey to your stomach: A minor plot twist happens on the way. You start to get a little bit of a scotch taste that rears its head. Wonderful if you like that, a little surprising if you don't.

Aftertaste: It is warm and lovely. A serene scene with your character at a lake or snuggled in toasty cabin with a fire roaring as the snow falls silently outside.

I would recommend this to help you relax and get into the groove to write. Or, to celebrate a successfully breaking a writing block. Or to break a writer's block. Or just whenever, really.