My name is Alex Chasko.

I'm the master distiller, master blender

for the whiskey company.

What I think's interesting about Irish whiskey

is that it has a lot of history to it.

Dublin was the distilling capital of the world.

Irish whiskey in Dublin specifically has a unique history

in that it's an urban process.

The grain would have been grown in the fields

and mostly the Midlands of Ireland

brought in on the canals to Dublin

where the milling, mashing, fermentation

and distillation would take place.

And the heart of that was this area

known as the Golden Triangle.

The Golden Triangle was this era

from probably about 1870 to around 1920.

But the past is definitely with us in Dublin today.

It's with us with the laws that dictate

how whiskey can be made.

Irish whiskey must be made on the island of Ireland.

What makes Ireland a special place for whiskey production

is that we have a soft climate.

The gulf stream gives us mild winters and wet summers.

It's also very good for growing barley.

So we have a good source of raw materials

for making Irish whiskey.

We have a good source of water.

But I think also the people of Ireland have a big factor.

The human factor in Irish whiskey as a GI is critical.

That it's the people that make Irish whiskey, right?

Irish whiskey has a light, sweet, approachable nature to it.

There's the importance around the terroir

and the raw materials that go into Irish whiskey

and the location.

But it's really people in the end that make Irish whiskey.

And we make it taste the way that it does

upholding those traditions of all those years.