Micil Distillery in Co Galway has won a silver medal at the World Gin Awards 2020 less than two years after it began distilling gin. Toggle navigation. Newsletters; DONATE. SHOP.

Irish moonshine, or poitín, was illegal for 150 years, but now you can try poitín and learn how it's made at the Micil Distillery in Galway, founded by a man from generations of poitín distillers.

The poitin from Galway's Micil Distillery. Photograph: Ronan O'Dornan The 'Micil Mule' poitin cocktail from Galways's Micil Distillery. Photograph: James Joyce Sixth generation Connemara ...

Micil Distillery is giving one lucky Irish Times subscriber the chance to win a luxury hamper full of Micil products, as well as a pair of tickets to visit our distillery on the shores of Galway Bay.