Athrú – Lough Gill Distillery

Sligo, County Sligo

About Athrú

From a lakeside, country estate in County Sligo, Lough Gill Distillery produce the highly sought-after Athru Single Malt Whiskey.  Whilst the distillery doesn't currently give in-person tours, it does offer a unique online opportunity to learn about Athrú single malts and to meet the makers at the Lough Gill Distillery. These virtual tours and tastings are preceded by tasting kits being posted to the participants – a unique gift or team building idea.

From Athrú's Website:

'THE BEGINNING

Our story begins with a group of friends and a stroke of luck – or was it fate? In 2014, these whiskey lovers and story seekers, discovered a vast warehouse complex, concealed by a forgotten 300 year old Palladian house in Hazelwood forest, Co. Sligo.

The very land that had inspired W.B. Yeats’ poem, The Song of Wandering Aengus was to inspire another story. And the founders embarked on a journey to transform this land and its buildings into a world class single malt distillery and maturation facility. The Athrú story is just beginning; come and join us on our journey…'

'THE DISTILLERY

Conceived in Ireland and built in Italy, we use state of the art equipment and energy capture technology to produce the highest quality Irish single malt.

Capable of producing over one million litres of alcohol per annum, every drop from our three hand-crafted copper stills is triple distilled in the finest Irish tradition'.

'OUR SINGLE MALTS

Our distillery team has a single obsession each day: the finest Irish single malt whiskey.

We use only the highest quality ingredients in our whiskey, sourcing heritage barley from a small group of Irish growers and drawing water from an ice age aquifer running beneath Lough Gill. Our whiskey is triple distilled in the Irish tradition and carefully 'cut' to produce a spirit with a distinctive fruity flavour and velvety mouthfeel'.

Athrú Website

Hazelwood Avenue, Sligo,

F91 Y820, Ireland

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