Ireland’s Walsh Distillery Operational, Set To Open In June 2016

By Richard Thomas

The new distillery of Walsh Whiskey, the company behind The Irishman and Writer’s Tears, is now up and running, having completed its first run of new make whiskey on March 27, Easter Sunday. Now Walsh Whiskey has set a date for the formal, grand opening: June 21.

Unlike some of the recent distilleries opened in Ireland, the Walsh distillery is a complete Irish whiskey operation, capable of making pot still, malt and grain whiskey in-house. Construction of the €25 million Carlow County plant began in Autumn 2014, and the distillation equipment from Forsyths of Scotland arrived in October 2015. The new distillery, set on the 18^th century Holloden House estate in Royal Oak, is said to have a 650,000 case capacity.