- Culture
- 25 Apr 19
Bertha’s Revenge Irish Milk Gin (42%)
Using whey alcohol from local dairy farmers - hence the name! - this small-batch Cork gin has made its way into many a hipster cocktail, but is best sampled neat!
Walsh’s Writer’s Tears (40%)
Triple distilled, non-peated and matured and aged in American Oak bourbon casks that have journeyed to Carlow, this is your archetypal cockle-warming sipper.
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Glendalough Beach Leaf Gin (43%)
Part of the Wicklow distillery’s ‘Ginteresting Series’ – a job in the Hot Press Headlines Dept. is theirs if they want it – this throws locally harvested mountain beech leaves into the copper pot.
Kalak Irish Vodka (40%)
Named after the Irish for ‘Celtic Queen of the Winter’, local malted barley and pure West Cork mountain water combine to glorious effect to produce this single malt vodka, which has become an essential part of our martinis!
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Micil Poítin (44%) (Pictured above)
Beloved of adventurous London mixologists, this Galway moonshine uses a previously illicit recipe that’s been in the Mac Chearra family for centuries.