Keeper's Heart has ambition, when it comes to blending American and Irish whiskey, but the results are a little rough and ready.
Inter-whiskey style blending is a rare, not commonly explored endeavor in the American whiskey market. Here, you can find blends of bourbon and rye without too much difficulty, but once you start to venture outside of American whiskey styles, the examples become much less common. Even when blending styles from outside the U.S. would makefrom last year, which was a bourbon blend themed around Ireland, but didn’t contain any actual Irish distillate.
I haven’t had a chance to try the company’s more entry level products, but what I have before me today is Keeper’s Heart Irish + Bourbon Cask Strength Whiskey, a blend of 59% bourbon and 41% Irish whiskeys, coming in hot at a stout 59% ABV . The whiskeys are all modestly aged, being based around 4-year bourbon, likely from MGP of Indiana, 4 year Irish grain whiskey aged in ex-bourbon barrels, and 4-year Irish triple distilled single pot still whiskey.