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Powerscourt Distillery

October 9, 2018 by Suzanne Redmond

Powerscourt distillery is housed in an old mill house, situated beside the world famous Powerscourt gardens. 

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Filed Under: Distillery Tagged With: Fercullen, Noel Sweeney, Powerscourt Estate, Powerscourt gardens, Powerscourt waterfall, Powerscourt whiskey, Slazenger family, Sugarloaf, Wicklow Whiskey

Lough Mask Distillery

October 9, 2018 by Suzanne Redmond

Lough Mask Distillery located on the shores of a beautiful lake, in county Mayo.

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Filed Under: Distillery Tagged With: Alembic Still, Dominic Hanniagan, Drogheda, Eoin Holmes, Lough Mask Distillery, Mayo whiskey, Single malt whiskey

Rademon Distillery

October 9, 2018 by Suzanne Redmond

Rademon Distillery

Rademon Distillery in the stunning Rademon Estate in county Down. [Read more…] about Rademon Distillery

Filed Under: Distillery Tagged With: Down Whiskey, Fiona and David Boyd-Armstrong, Rademon Distillery, Shortcross gin

Glendalough Distillery

October 9, 2018 by Suzanne Redmond

Glendalough distillery near the deep, glacial valley nestled in the Wicklow Mountains.

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Ballykeefe Distillery

October 8, 2018 by Suzanne Redmond

Ballykeefe Distillery is situated in the heartland of Ireland, adjacent to its medieval capital, Kilkenny city.

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Filed Under: Distillery Tagged With: Ballykeefe Distillery, Eco friendly, family farm distillery, Irish Whiskey, kilkenny, Kilkenny whiskey, Morgan ging, red book of ossory, Water of Life

Connacht Distillery

October 8, 2018 by Suzanne Redmond

Connacht Distillery

 

The Connacht Distillery in the wilds of county Mayo.

The Connacht Distillery sits on the banks of the beautiful River Moy, in the ruggedly wild and beautiful county Mayo. It sits just outside the charming town of Ballina, on the site of the old Duffy family bakery. From bread to whiskey this site has always had a true Irish aroma about it. Here a dream held by the Stapletons, three American and one Irish came into fruition. The Stapeltons wished to bring distilling back to one of the most natural and unspoiled regions of Ireland.

The Stills

Robert Cassell, their master distiller and co-founder, custom designed their stills in order to create the essence from the west; which once tried, the memories from this liquid last. Connacht is very active distillery from once the grain is delivered they are busy preparing their mash to then fermenting, distilling, maturing and finally bottling their liquid gold. It has been more than a hundred years since the west distilled pot still and single malt whiskey’s. The Connacht distillery has the unique coastal location to mature their wild whiskey’s giving a beautiful tone to their whiskey.

Visitors Centre

As like many, they have a visitors centre where you can start your interactive tour. After which you can taste though their selection of spirits in their custom built bar.  A bar which was hand-crafted from re-purposed timber flooring from Dublin’s Boland Mills. These historic floors, upon which our Irish patriots stood and battled British soldiers during the 1916 Easter Rising; thus bringing a little extra Irish history to their distillery; Ireland’s Taoiseach and local Mayo man Enda Kenny offically opened the distillery in October 2015. “I am delighted that the craft of whiskey-making is returning to the West of Ireland” Enda kenny.

 

 

Sláinte agus go n-éirí an bóthar leat! 

 

The Connacht Distillery Whiskey Collection.

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Filed Under: Distillery Tagged With: Ballyhoo, Brothership, Connacht Distillery, Enda Kenny, Irish Whiskey, Mayo whiskey, Poitin, Spade & Bushel, Straw Boys Poitin

Echlinville Distillery

October 3, 2018 by Suzanne Redmond

Echlinville Distillery on the Ards peninsula in county Down

Echlinville is the first licensed whiskey distillery in Northern Ireland in over 125 years. This distillery is nestled beside the sea on the Ards peninsula, giving them a very unique terrior, and micro-climate. Founded by locals who have been farming the land for centuries. They have the unique perspective for the design and future styles for their whiskey. Giving Echlinville the ability to produce a whiskey with a truly distinctive character and flavour. [Read more…] about Echlinville Distillery

Filed Under: Distillery, Down Tagged With: Ards peninsula, Distillery, Echlinville, Northern Ireland, peated irish whiskey, Shane Braniff, whiskey

The Shed Distillery

October 3, 2018 by Suzanne Redmond

The Shed Distillery In Deepest Rural Ireland

The Shed distillery is much more than it sounds, located in the North West of Ireland, in county Leitrim, on the edge of Lough Allen  at the foot of Sliabh An Iarainn mountains. This spectacular backdrop of the wild and rugged west was deemed the perfect location by owners PJ and Denise Rigney.

In 2014 The Shed Distillery opened, it was the first distillery to open in Connacht in over a hundred and one years. Opening in a little unknown village of Drumshanbo county Leitrim, with a mere eight hundred residents.

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Filed Under: Distillery Tagged With: Connacht, Count Carl Graf Von Hardenberg, Gunpowder gin, Leitrim, PJ Rigney, Prince Albert of Monaco, Sausage Tree Vodka, The Shed distillery, Winter Solstice

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