Comments on: Ad of the week: William Jameson Irish whiskey

By: tim mulrooney

tim mulrooney — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:09:11 +0000

I have an original bottle of William Jameson whisky un opened.. wondering what it’s worth:
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By: Earthchief

Earthchief — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:06:58 +0000

William Jameson was the son of John Jameson as in John Jameson whiskey. John the father (born 1740) set his sons up in the whiskey industry in Dublin, John Jnr in Bow St and William in Marrowbone lane on the other side of the liffey. It was a bot like Bobby and JR Ewing both in the same family but competing. Eventually the William Jameson Distillery merged with Dublin’s largest distillery, Thomas Roe and a couple of others to form DWD, but the merger didn’t work out. John Jameson and Powers were the main survivors of the great Dublin whiskies that once ruled the world. They say in 1860 Irish whiskey was 90% of all whiskey and that John Jameson’s whiskey was 10% of all Irish Whiskey.

By: Ken Moorhead

Ken Moorhead — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:18:09 +0000

LOVE reading whiskey lore. Thanks for doing the research on this and sharing it. I’ve been getting into Irish whiskey a bit more lately… a nice departure from bourbons and Scotch (not that I dislike either of those categories!)

By: ChrisG

ChrisG — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:42:16 +0000

wow, great research! it never occurred to me before, but there must have been a lot of overlapping distillery/brewery names in the olden days. Jameson isn’t an uncommon name, and everybody loves whiskey! Powers, Guinness, um … Baileys … all fairly common, yet we associate them with single products. i guess there used to be a fair amount of what we would call ‘trademark infringement’

By: Jay Hepburn

Jay Hepburn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:38:57 +0000

Love this post series Michael, some of the old ads are just great.