From the Jameson desk · Thread · Compare the pair · 2026-08-27

An Irish blend and a Scotch, ranked neighbours and both low

mergedmay_publish falsequality passsite_publish trueprices: 2 price claim(s) verified live

1/Jameson Black Barrel is an Irish blend. Monkey Shoulder is a Scottish blended malt. Different island, different make-up. The profile model seats them sixth-closest in the whole set anyway.

2/And this Thursday they're low in the same breath. Jameson $70, Monkey Shoulder $58 at Dan Murphy's, both plain shelf tickets, neither a members-only price. Each is parked at the bottom of its own recent range.

3/Worth a pinch of salt: the value model is cooler on the match, thirteenth rather than sixth. So take them as two easy everyday blends that line up on flavour arithmetic, not as the same dram in two bottles.

4/Both lean corn-and-cask with a little sherry edge to them. At $70 for the Irish or $58 for the Scotch, which is filling the glass this week? Both Dan Murphy's. If your local shelf reads different, drop the ticket below.

Sources

generate_cycle.py replay payload, artefact 2026-08-27-replay/compare-the-pair/jameson-black-barrel-blended-irish-whiskey-700ml-monkey-shou-3ea2d9, grounded on vintage 2026-08-27.r, own-history window as-of 2026-08-27.
Jameson Black Barrel Blended Irish Whiskey 700mL: shelf ticket $70 (claim value 70.0; grounding.ref.price 70.0; harvest price_list and price_member both $69.95, on_offer no, 2026-08-27, Stockcode 513974), not a member offer; at its own-history floor (percentile 0.0, price variation present, 5 observations).
Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL: shelf ticket $58 (claim value 58.0; grounding.cand.price 58.0; harvest price_list and price_member both $57.90, on_offer no, 2026-08-27, Stockcode 375519), not a member offer; at its own-history floor (percentile 0.0, 5 observations).
Closeness: VSM profile cosine 0.836, VSM rank 6; CE utility score 0.0123, CE rank 13 (candidate.pair, rank_diff -7). same_country false (Ireland vs Scotland), same_style false (Blended vs Blended Malt); both age 3.
Character: Jameson Black Barrel factor profile Corn & Charcoal 0.13 + Sherry & Dried Fruit 0.09; Monkey Shoulder Corn & Charcoal 0.05 + Sherry & Dried Fruit 0.04 (2026-08-27.r dossiers).

Omissions

Light form only: no CE 360 band bounds, no cross-read CEARP, no Welch t-test on the two means. Ruled out here, not implied.
Each leg carries 5 in-window observations this early in the 13-week window; the 'at the floor' read rests on a short history and the post keeps it to a timing observation, not a movement claim.
No bundle price is asserted beyond naming both tickets.
A pair-level sum test does sit in the payload (the two together are below their window average, p ≈ 0.0004), but the light form does not publish the t-test; the post uses the own-history floor read instead.

Notes for reviewer

Replay draft on rehearsal vintage 2026-08-27.r; may_publish: false and never flips in replay.
Confirm the piece reads as 'two different blends, both cheap right now', not 'these are the same whisky' — the profile model is 6th, the value model 13th.

Format note

Compare the pair, automated light form. Two shelf tickets and each bottle's own-history position only; no CE 360 bands, no cross-read CEARP, no Welch t-test quoted (the light form excludes them). Both prices shelf basis, neither on a member offer this week. Both 700mL. Closeness is profile-led: the VSM profile model ranks them 6th-closest, the value model 13th (rank_diff -7), so the piece frames it as two different blends that happen to line up on make-up, not one standing in for the other.

Frontmatter as merged

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premium over CE 360° · shared scale 0% to +70% across the eleven

Jameson Black Barrel Blended Irish Whiskey

$69.85list 11-05

CE 360° $53.97 · 22.7% over · #2 of 6 in Midleton

per standard drink $3.16 · #4 of 6 in Midleton

4 pieces · observed

Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt Scotch Whisky 700mL

$61.80list 11-05

CE 360° $51.83 · 16.1% over · #69 of 79 in Speyside

1 piece · observed

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