Blackwater

A gin with Barry’s Classic Blend Tea at its core. Distilled tea doesn’t taste much like tea, it’s spicy. However it still marries well with all the traditional accompaniments like cardamon, cinnamon and lemon. Stir in a good measure of juniper and you are well on the way to distilling a seasonal special. Large pots of tea are brewed which then get stirred...

Blackwater No. 5 is a classic London Dry Gin, distilled in Blackwater distillery in west Waterford. They only use the botanicals that were imported into Ireland by White’s of Waterford during the 19th century. Of the twelve botanicals used, ten are classic while two are rather special and probably unique to Blackwater No.5 Gin.

Blackwater use thirteen botanicals to distill this gin, the largest of these being strawberry, as you might expect. The berries are grown just outside Enniscorthy (Co. Wexford) and transported to the distillery in a large cool box. After distillation, they soak more strawberries in the gin and that’s how it gets its colour.