[treerock]

I believe peat use is rare in the malting for Irish Whiskey. More common in Scotland but still not the majority.

But presumably you could burn other fuel and get a similar result. The traditionalists would be grumpy though.

[messe]

It is quite rare, but not nonexistent. I believe there's only about three to five distilleries who produce or will be producing peated Irish whiskey, at least one of which isn't yet in production at the moment.

> But presumably you could burn other fuel and get a similar result

I'm not so sure about that. Peat smoke has a quite distinctive smell.