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At last! Let me rephrase that. At long bloody last! Yes the gin is flowing, orders are being filled and folk are enjoying Blackwater No.5 Gin. The first gin hit the shops on Friday, but we were too knackered to party. Remember we don’t just make the gin here, we bottle and label it on […]

‘What this?’ Holds up bottle and reads label. ‘Double Black a vodka distilled from an IPA?’ ‘Yes. It’s a hopped vodka.’ ‘Stop right there – you took an IPA brewed by Black’s of Kinsale and then what? You distilled it?’ ‘That’s why it’s called Double Black. 800 litres of IPA turned up on a pallet one morning, it would have […]

Well around now our gin should have been in shops all across the country. Then came the crash. Before it could get up, our bottling line went down. Yes, it would be simpler to farm out the entire thing and pretend we made it ourselves, but where would the fun be in that. Our gin should […]

In the beginning there was 01  – we looked and thought it was good, so on the seventh day we created… 02. If distilling an unhopped Oatmeal Stout from the Dungarvan Brewing Company was an original way to wet the head of a new distillery, then distilling an IPA is akin to moving straight from crawling to […]

If you don’t know the background to this story, then read this and that… Sorted? Excellent. Well the largest round I ever ordered, all 800 litres of Oatmeal Stout arrived at the distillery earlier this week. The lads at Dungarvan Brewing Company cooked up this batch for us leaving out the hops. We weren’t sure […]

It’s a great time to be a beer drinker in Ireland. Craft brewers are putting the fun and the flavour back into beer, it’s something to celebrate and that’s from the nephew of the former Master Brewer at Budweiser. New beers bring new flavours and since taste is what we are all about, it only makes sense to […]

It all started with this. I was in a bar, a pal ordered me a bottle of this excellent stout and as I sat down three things flashed through my mind. 1. My pal never buys me a drink, what’s he’s after? 2. There’s a lighthouse in Dungarvan? 3. Shit. Next time before sitting down, I must […]

  It’s a hard month is January; credit card bills, detox articles in the newspapers and a fresh round of those weekly encyclopedias that no one seems to buy. But January is also a good month to plan ahead, which is why we decided to launch a Gin Distilling Workshop. On 11th April we will host Ireland’s first day […]

In the next week or so we start distilling our first product; as yet we have not come to the attention of The Skibbereen Eagle, just the Irish Independent and The Gloss Magazine – so say hello to Blackwater No. 5, which as the label says is a London Dry Gin.   It’s only six letters long, but the simple […]

It’ll all be over by Christmas, we cried! Well we were wrong. We tried so very hard to make it happen, to get the first gin out in 2014 but in the end there was just too much red tape. Anyway December is awash with new distilleries, Highbank Orchards launched last weekend, JP Rigney cuts […]