Whiskey aims to challenge Jameson in US

AN IRISH-BORN entrepreneur has chosen today, St Patrick’s Day, for the launch of a “big kick” whiskey he hopes will eventually take America by storm.

Kieran Folliard, who owns a pub-restaurant chain in Minneapolis that employs more than 300, has been selling so much Irish whiskey — mostly Jameson — over the years that he decided to begin selling his own brand.

The brand, imported from Ireland and bottled in the States, is known as “2 Gingers”. It features two flaming redheads on the bottle label.