Food & Wine
‘It’s been such an adventure’: Kevin Keenan of the Glendalough Distillery on its new Japanese-inspired whiskey
The island of Hokkaido provided the inspiration - and the wood - for the Glendalough Distillery’s latest whiskey. Jordan Mooney
Kevin Keenan first heard about mizunara oak in 2014. “Ireland’s whiskey don’t specify that you need to use oak for aging,” Keenan, the co-founder of the Glendalough Distillery in Co Wicklow, says.
“At the time we had just released a double barrel whiskey that had been aged in bourbon casks, then finished in sherry casks. It was a really lovely whiskey but I felt that everyone was doing the same thing. I wanted to learn ...
