The Triple Smoke is a tasty American single malt whiskey with a golden colour and a peaty butterscotch flavour.

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Then he covers every top whisky producing country in depth, especially Scotland, which he breaks into no less than 16 single malt regions, plus blended Scotches, then Ireland (whiskey), Japan, Canada, the US, Europe, South Africa, India, and Australia.

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While these, along with single-malt Scotches, still make up only a small section of the whiskey market by volume, they comprise the fastest growing section, and by far the most profitable.

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It is the only pure Irish pot still whiskey available in the U.S. Unlike the vast majority of Irish whiskies, it is entirely made from malted and malted barley, while almost all other have the addition of grain-whiskey, one of the same key differentiators between single malt and blended whiskies.

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Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a blended whiskey, too, and better by far to my taste than any single-malt.

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The fashion for quality, limited-edition whiskey started in Britain in the 1980s with the rapid expansion in the availability of single-malt Scotches, high-end whiskies made by individual distilleries in Scotland, using only malted barley (see: " Super Single Malts").

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