Hyde No. 6 President's Reserve 1938 Commemorative Edition Single Grain
Hyde Whiskey · Hyde Whisky Company (sourced grain, matured and finished in West Cork)
A study in editorial restraint — a single grain that refuses to be either too sweet or too austere, holding both poles in delicate suspension. Excellent value for the cask program behind it.
Nose
Toasted brioche and milk chocolate lead, followed by candied orange peel, raisin, and a faint whisper of clove. There's a restraint here — the sherry sweetness never tips into opulence, held in check by a clean, cereal-driven backbone.
Palate
Silky entry of vanilla custard and demerara sugar, opening into oloroso-soaked sultanas, walnut skin, and a thread of dried fig. Mid-palate reveals dry oak tannin pulling against the sweetness — the tension that defines the dram.
Finish
Medium-length, drying gracefully into toasted almond, faint cocoa, and a final flicker of orange zest. The sweetness recedes before the wood does, leaving a quiet, contemplative close.
- Mash Bill
- Predominantly corn-based single grain mash with a small malted barley component (undisclosed exact proportions).
- Distillation
- Column distilled at a single Irish distillery, sourced as new-make by Hyde for proprietary maturation.
- Maturation
- Initial maturation in ex-bourbon American oak barrels, followed by a finishing period in first-fill oloroso sherry casks in West Cork.
- Single Pot Still
- No
- Chill-Filtered
- Non-chill filtered
Cocktail Suggestion
The Inauguration — 2 oz Hyde No. 6, 0.5 oz oloroso sherry, 0.25 oz demerara syrup, 2 dashes orange bitters. Stir over ice for 30 seconds, strain into a chilled coupe, express an orange peel over the surface and discard.
Food Pairing
Aged Coolea cheese with quince paste and toasted walnut bread — the dried-fruit register of the whiskey echoes the quince while the grain backbone cuts the cheese's richness.
Founded by the Hyde family of Cork in tribute to their ancestor Conor Hyde, a member of the West Cork Brigade in 1916, the No. 6 commemorates Douglas Hyde's 1938 inauguration as Ireland's first President — a bottling that wears its history with quiet conviction.
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