Powers Signature Release Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey
Powers · Midleton Distillery
A masterclass in balance — this is single pot still at its most articulate, delivering the creamy weight the style demands while lifting off the palate with bright fruit and spice. An essential pour for understanding what modern Irish whiskey can be.
Nose
Toasted oak and vanilla lead, followed by ripe orchard fruit — baked apple, pear skin — with a lift of orange oil and a whisper of clove and cinnamon.
Palate
Classic pot still weight: thick, oily, coating the mouth with barley cream and honeyed malt. Mid-palate brings green apple, marzipan, and warm baking spice, with dried apricot and a graceful floral edge that keeps it from ever feeling heavy.
Finish
Long and warming, with lingering vanilla, toasted oak, and a peppery pot still spice fading into gentle honey and citrus zest.
- Mash Bill
- Mixed mash of malted and unmalted Irish barley (traditional single pot still recipe)
- Distillation
- Triple-distilled in copper pot stills at Midleton Distillery
- Maturation
- Matured exclusively in first-fill ex-bourbon American oak barrels
- Single Pot Still
- No
- Chill-Filtered
- No — non-chill filtered
Cocktail Suggestion
The Lifting Weight — 2 oz Powers Signature Release, 0.5 oz honey syrup (2:1), 0.25 oz fresh lemon juice, 2 dashes orange bitters. Stir with ice, strain into a chilled coupe, express an orange peel over the top and drop in.
Food Pairing
Roast pork loin with apple compote, or a wedge of aged Coolea cheese with honeycomb and toasted walnuts.
Once the largest whiskey brand in Ireland, Powers was born in John's Lane, Dublin, in 1791, and today its Signature Release honors that pot still heritage from the vast copper stills at Midleton in County Cork.
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