We are delighted to announce that Silks Gin has been awarded a Gold medal by the Beverage Testing Institute Awards 2021. Beverage Testing Institute (BTI) Beverage Testing Institute was founded in 1981 as the first international wine competition in the United States, adding beer, spirits, cider, sake, mead and more to the repertoire in 1994. […]
Today was a very exciting day here at the distillery as we have teamed up with Talnua Distillery www.talnua.com in the Centennial State in a first of its kind Single Pot Still collaboration. This unique initiative will examine how the Irish and American climates will influence finished, single pot still whiskey once it is botted […]
Every gun makes its own tune and this one’s a melody of peated heat and smooth blended single malts. Having spent the first part of its life in ex-bourbon barrels, this stellar dram was then married and finished in, 125 litre, peated quarter casks for a minimum of 12 months, giving a campfire peated finish […]
Our “New Born” new make spirit has been crowned “World’s Best New Make” at the finals of the World Whiskies Awards last night. We are over the moon to have won the most prestigious award for producing the best new make whiskey in the world. We have become the first Irish distillery to win this […]
We are delighted to scoop six prizes at the World Whiskies Awards 2021 announced this week. We won five accolades for the Whistler range – and have also been crowned Best Single Pot Still New Make 2021. We are so overwhelmed with this most prestigious award for our New Make spirit. We have set out […]
The Whistler Imperial Stout Cask Finish blend is a project that the team at Boann Distillery have been working on for a number of years. The project featured a number of test batches that never saw the light of day before this, current blend was deemed ready for releasing to the public. This blend of […]
The Whistler Calvados Cask Finish is a collaboration between Boann Distillery and famed Calvados producers Chateau du Breuil, in Normandy, France. Chateau du Breuil produces some of the world’s finest Calvados, which is a geographically protected, aged apple distillate, which can only be produced in Normandy in the North West of France. For this whiskey, […]
We are delighted to announce that The Whistler Irish Honey Whiskey has emerged as ‘Worlds Best Honey’ and ‘Best Irish Honey’ at this years World Liqueur Awards 2020. Overall competition was stiff with over 150 entries from all over the globe competing for gold and winners were announced on Wednesday 29, April 2020. We are exceptionally […]
We are delighted to report that The Whistler Irish whiskey range is now available in the US nationwide. Whistled into life one New Years Eve, The Whistler range is born of the noteworthy craft and time-honoured traditions that are as old as the story told, the written word and the whistled tune. The national launch across […]
Boann Distillery begins an exciting new chapter with the first whiskey spirit distillation in Drogheda in over 160 years. As the winter solstice sun rose over the Boyne Valley, the first spirit produced in the Boann Distillery was laid down in cask on Saturday 21 December, 2019. On the sunrise of the winter solstice every year […]
