Blackwater Distillery in West Waterford has won the Craft Award at this year’s Euro-Toques Food Awards for ‘their outstanding spirits and their contribution to protecting the tradition and skill of the age-old craft of distillation in Ireland.’
The Euro-Toques Food Awards are held annually to recognise and celebrate the very best food being produced in Ireland. They honour those who produce food of notable flavour and quality. Nominated by the chefs who use these exceptional products on their menus daily, the Euro-Toques Food Awards give Euro-Toques member chefs the opportunity to celebrate the farmers, growers, fisherfolk, and food producers who make it possible for them to create superb meals by providing them with the best local produce available.
This award coincides with our latest Blackwater Irish Whisky launch, ‘the Full Irish’ which showcases the three styles of Irish whisky – grain, single malt and pot still. Containing 45% Blackwater produced single malt, 45% Blackwater produced pot still (both five years old) and 10% seven-year-old grain whiskies, finished in stout casks from local Hopfully Brewing Company, this blend contains every permissible grain (barley, malt, wheat, oat, rye and maize), every type of Irish whisky (malt, pot still, grain) and then there’s the stout. What could be more Irish? Nothing. Except perhaps some black pudding - but that’s not allowed. https://blackwaterdistillery.ie/product/irish-whisky-the-full-irish-blend/
Founded in 2014, Blackwater Distillery is a micro distillery based in the village of Ballyduff Upper in West Waterford where a small team produces a range of spirits including gin, vodka, poitín, single malt and pot still Irish whisky. That’s whisky without an e: founder, author and distiller Peter Mulryan is passionately determined to reclaim the heritage of Irish whisky, remaking whiskies lost to time and redefining an entire category. In 2022, the first whisky release from Blackwater Distillery was the Dirtgrain Irish Whisky Manifesto, a four bottle box set which was a statement of intent and a demonstration of how grain, rather than cask, can shape the flavour of the spirit. Mulryan is determined to dig into the rich history of Irish whisky, using old recipes and history to inform current production. Looking into the past makes for a more interesting future and creates an atmosphere for intriguing innovation at Blackwater Distillery.
