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Every visit we rate, with live availability and the price you will actually pay. One distillery in a week is right. Two is a hobby.
Photograph Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0
We book these through Viator because the cancellation terms are the fairest available to an American paying months ahead, and because it pays us a commission at no cost to you. Where the distillery sells its own tickets, that link sits beside ours. Read the whiskey essay first if you have not decided which one you want, and the whiskey questions page if you plan to carry bottles home.
County Cork
Midleton Distillery
If you only tour one distillery in Ireland, tour this one, and book a tasting-led experience rather than the standard walk.
Midleton Distillery Experience
About 90 minutes · from €28
The standard guided tour of the old and new distilleries, with a comparative tasting at the end. Fine for a mixed group.
Behind The Scenes, with cask tasting
About 2 hours · from €65
Into the working distillery and the warehouses, with whiskey drawn straight from the cask. This is the one we book.
Sleeping nearby? Build the week around Midleton, or read our full Midleton guide.
County Antrim
Bushmills Distillery
Take it as the afternoon half of a Causeway Coast day, not as a destination on its own, and buy the 16 or the 21 on site.
Giant's Causeway and Bushmills day from Belfast
Full day · from £45
The sane way to do it if you have been tasting. Someone else drives the coast road.
Bushmills distillery tour and tasting
About 1 hour · from £15
Working distillery, warehouses, a tutored tasting at the end. Book the same day as the Causeway.
Sleeping nearby? Build the week around Bushmills, or read our full Bushmills guide.
Dublin
Teeling Distillery
The Dublin tour to take if you want the whiskey rather than the afternoon out.
Teeling Distillery tour and tasting
About 1 hour · from €20
Three stills, one guide who knows the process, three whiskeys at the end.
Dublin whiskey tasting walk
About 3 hours · from €45
Several bars, several styles, someone else keeping the order sensible.
Sleeping nearby? Build the week around Teeling, or read our full Teeling guide.
Dublin
Jameson Distillery Bow St.
Take it for the company and the cocktail class. Do not mistake it for a working distillery.
Bow St. Experience with comparative tasting
About 1 hour · from €26
Guided, polished, ends in the bar. The right pick for a mixed group.
Sleeping nearby? Build the week around Bow Street, or read our full Bow Street guide.
County Westmeath
Kilbeggan Distillery
Worth an hour if the road goes past. Do not build a trip around it.
Kilbeggan Distillery Experience
About 1 hour · from €18
A working museum with a tasting. Good value, no queue, easy stop.
Sleeping nearby? Build the week around Kilbeggan, or read our full Kilbeggan guide.
County Kerry
Dingle Distillery
Take it as the end of a Slea Head day, then drink it again in Dick Mack's.
Dingle Distillery tour and tasting
About 1 hour · from €20
Small groups, working floor, three pours at the end.
Slea Head Drive guided day
Half day · from €40
The right way to see the peninsula if you would rather look than drive.
Sleeping nearby? Build the week around Dingle, or read our full Dingle guide.
Rather have us arrange it
Tell us where you are sleeping and we will tell you which distillery day fits, and whether it is worth the drive at all.
Plan the whiskey weekBack to the whiskey hub.
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Not sure it is worth the day?
Tell me your dates and what you want out of the whiskey side of the trip. I live here, I have eaten and drunk my way through all of it, and I will tell you plainly when something is not worth your day.