Co Cork gin in IFWG awards

Whey alcohol produced from West Cork milk is the key ingredient of Bertha’s Revenge Irish Milk Gin, one of this week’s Irish Food Writers’ Guild awards winners.

The Irish Drink category winning craft gin is produced by Justin Green of Ballyvolane House, Castlelyons, Co Cork, a former dairy farm turned award-winning country house hotel.

Most Irish gins use imported grain-based alcohol, but Bertha’s Revenge is distilled with alcohol produced from milk at the Carbery plant in Balineen, Co Cork.