Bandon distillery

[DavidH]

The Irish Times reports today that West Cork Distillers is renovating an old distillery in Bandon, to open in June:

http://www.irishtimes.com/west-cork-dis ... -1.1327288

According to Townsend, there are some old buildings from Bandon Distillery (ceased distilling 1925) remaining so perhaps that's the location.

[Good Whiskey Hunting]

I was there in January and didn't hear a thing. Most of the buildings are intact and plenty of room for a Distillery. It was many times bigger than the Dingle Distillery site.

This is great news for whiskey in general.

[Fionnán]

I still have those photo's willie and i can put them up here if anyone's interested. Bandon's a curious one because they made both malt and pot still whiskey during the original boom (theres still a bottle in the nearby pub). Any way of contacting these people and seeing if their interested in taking the thing seriously David? I'd love to have a word with them about their intentions for the book

[DavidH]

No, I've been entirely unsuccessful finding someone to talk to there. Now that there is a new distillery in the offing, I'm tempted to have another go. If I get anywhere I'll let you know.

[Raven]

Good article from the Irish Times --- this is the bit though that I have difficulty with as I picked
up a bottle of this some time ago believing that I had bought an Irish whiskey ????? (The labeling
on this particular item I find confusing and I believe that I am not the only one to find it so !! )
'The third product is Kennedy, a “Celtic fusion of whiskey and malt” made from young
whiskey infused with Irish and Bourbon oak and steeped in malt.'

[Fionnán]

I'd also love to get some clarification on the above concoctions. I'm sure it'll only be a matter of time before you corner them for some real answers David