WhiskyCritic Goes To Battle With Hell-Cat Maggie
Probably the first piece of information you should know about Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey from Ace Spirits is that its namesake is a female gang member from the early 1800’s who is said to filed her teeth into points and wore long, claw-like brass fingernails. Just so you know what you are getting yourself into, of course.
WC willingly decided to brawl with a sampling of Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey – a single pot still Irish whiskey bottled at 40% alcohol by volume [80 proof] – and while we were expecting to get our “arses” handed to us, it actually was not quite that bad.
Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey is – similar to the recently reviewed Bird Dog Blended Whiskey – not going to reside on the top of any of your high-falutin’ lists of pricey alcohol-infused brown liquids. It just does not hang with that crowd. However, like Bird Dog, Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey is a pleasant enough experience. It is, as one might expect, slightly combative when first introduced, producing some harsh, intense notes that WC thinks might be akin to alcoholic boiled fruitcake [or you may substitute your preferred imagery of a foodstuff you would not wish on your grandmother, alive or dead], but after a calming-down period has been established, Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey is tolerable, even to the point of being enjoyable [although we would not go as far as to say it was smooth].
The real selling point to Hell-Cat Maggie is, of course, its nice price point of $19 per bottle. Some people may say that you get what you pay for, and that may certainly be the case for many things in life – in the case of Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey, WC would say that you get what you pay for and maybe a couple bucks extra.
With all that in mind, WhiskyCritic awards Hell-Cat Maggie Irish Whiskey with a 78 out of a 100 points on our illustrious WC scoring scale.