Irish Whiskey Surpasses St. Patrick’s Day

Irish whiskey is currently the fastest growing whiskey category in the U.S., growing 20% last year to 860,000 nine-liter cases, according to David Ozgo, chief economist for Discus. In an interesting article by MarketWatch’s William Spain, David says Irish whiskey has been one of the fastest growing spirits categories for five years, although it is still small when compared to bourbon or scotch. Pernod’s Jameson is the biggest Irish whiskey player. It jumped 23%in volume in 2007, according to Impact,