Peat, poitín and pot stills – how Micil Distillery is turning up the heat on Irish whiskey flavours

Micil Distillery – This Irish micro-distillery along the Wild Atlantic Way is making big waves on the whiskey scene with its peated and single pot still releases

The Micil micro-distillery demonstrates big ambition from its base in Salthill in Co Galway. Salthill is a coastal village that has become inextricably linked to its bigger neighbour, the distinctly personality-driven Irish west-coast city of Galway. 

With deep roots in the Irish-language speaking region, the family behind Micil sustainably cuts and burns peat from their family farm on the Wild Atlantic Way. This wholly Irish peat, a surprisingly rare ingredient in Irish whiskey-making today due to the modern trend of importing peated malt from elsewhere, puts Micil in a leading position among Irish peated whiskey makers.