2019: The Year of Living Dangerously
Welcome to 2019. We started this adventure back in 2014, it’s taken longer than we initially thought to get here,…
Wanted: Distiller at Blackwater Distillery
We are hiring. This just might be the most exciting distilling job in Ireland. Distiller: Blackwater Distillery Blackwater Distillery has…
Ballyduff: An Unexpected Journey
It’s been a while since we last spoke, but the Ballyduff project is going well. I had intended weekly updates on…
Retronaut: Fit the First
Retronaut On 23rd October 2017 building work finally began on our new distillery in Ballyduff, Co Waterford. It felt like a…
The Blackwater River, our Home in West Waterford
Work starts on our new distillery on the banks of the Blackwater river this October and of course we will…
Post-Recession Blues Vs Hope in Ballyduff
With all the speed of a great ice sheet, progress in Ballyduff where we are converting an old hardware store into…
Single Batch Irish Whisky is Coming
Small Batch Vs Single Batch So what does ‘Small Batch’ actually mean? To be honest it means whatever the hell…
Celebrating Rear Label Fiction in Irish Whiskey
We were thrilled this week to read that as and from 2018 the Booker Prize for Fiction will be extended…
Daft Punk: Craft and how to lose it
Apart from badly knitted tea-cosies, I have no idea what constitutes ‘craft’. Even putting the word in inverted commas doesn’t…
Blackwater Irish Whisky
Yesterday the postman dropped off a small brown envelope. Inside was our Brewer’s Licence. Because in order to make Irish…