I’m in Glendalough at the Glendalough hotel drinking Glendalough 7 Single Malt while enjoying the Glendalough mountain air, sunshine, and overall happy about thinks.

It’s like I found the key to happiness in the Glendalough of life.

Wait, that only is funny if you pronounce it correctly. Dammit! It ends with “lock”, so it’s a… dammit.

Glendalough is Ireland’s first craft distillery, located in a beautiful town that is close to where they shot parts of Braveheart. Five friends from Wicklow and Dublin decided they’d start up a distillery to get back to the rich heritage of craft distilling that happened in Ireland prior to Ireland being fucked right out of the whiskey game.

Which they totally aren’t still annoyed by. Totally. This isn’t sarcastic at all.

Luckily Irish whiskey is coming back, with a vengeance. Or maybe without the vengeance. While they haven’t quite hit the 200 distillery count…