The Kinahan’s brand was founded in 1779 in Dublin and was incredibly popular in the 19th century. It received a Royal Warrant in 1845 from Queen Victoria and was one of the preferred whiskies of Jerry Thomas — a pioneering bartender who is revered to this day. Prohibition and the Irish civil war ushered in the end of the brand in the 1920s, but a few ambitious entrepreneurs have now revived it. It was relaunched as a Small Batch Blended Irish Whiskey on the same Dublin street it was founded all the way back when.
