The Top Irish Gin Brands to Try Right Now

Míl Gin is an Irish pot-distilled gin created by the Pearse Lyons Distillery team using Mediterranean botanicals. These include almonds, basil, bergamot orange, gooseberry, olives, orris, rosemary and thyme along with the requisite juniper. In Irish mythology, Míl was a Spanish warrior whose descendants populated Ireland.

Ha'Penny Dublin Dry Gin is a pot still distilled gin made with 13 botanicals. These include blackberries, dandelion flowers, lavender, geranium, and cracked black pepper along with more traditional gin botanicals. Named for the Ha'Penny Pedestrian Bridge which crosses the River Liffey in the center of Dublin.

This expression is flavored with various fruits and botanicals, including gunpowder green tea and "Sa pompia" (Latin name: Citrus monstruosa)—a variety of citrus from Sardinian village of Siniscola. It is bottled at 43% ABV.

Glendalough, known for their whiskeys and poitín, entered the gin game in 2014 with seasonal gins, one for each season. Glendalough Wild Botanical Gin, launched in early 2017, brings all four seasons together. Their plan is for you to smell the spring, taste both the summer floral and autumnal fruits, and finish up the experience with spices reminding you of winter. A host of wild botanicals are foraged by Geraldine Kavanagh and they are used fresh, not dried in the distillation process. Note: Updated packaging beginning May 2023. (SRP $32.99)

Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin is produced using twelve botanicals, eight that are traditionally infused and four that are vapor infused. Meadowsweet, sourced in the town of Drumshanbo in Co. Leitrim where the gin is produced, along with cardamom, juniper, coriander, angelica root, orris root, caraway, and star anise all go directly into the copper pot stills. The kaffir lime, oriental grapefruit, Chinese lemon and gunpowder tea are vapor infused.

For this Rhubarb Gin, Ha'Penny (hay-penny) begins with its flagship pot-distilled gin made with 13 botanicals. Those botanicals include geranium, dandelion, lavender, and blackberry — all botanicals which would've been growing in Dublin's Phoenix Park during the Victorian era when the Ha'penny Bridge was built. Before bottling, freshly-pressed rhubarb juice is used to bring the gin down to proof providing a naturally derived pink hue and rhubarb flavor. (SRP $32.99)

Method and Madness Irish Micro Distilled Gin is the first release from the micro-distillery at Midleton in Cork. It was crafted by master distiller Brian Nation and apprentice distiller Henry Donnelly. It is made from 16 botanicals including black lemon and Irish gorse flower. Available in Ireland and global travel retail beginning March 2019 with a wider global release expected in July 2019.

This Irish gin hails from Tullamore at the Arderin Distillery. It is made using botanicals of juniper, angelica, coriander, rosemary as well as blackberries, cranberries, and raspberries. Bottled at 40% ABV.

Dingle Original Gin is technically a London Dry gin, but its botanicals lean towards a modern style by using rowan berry, fuchsia, bog myrtle, hawthorne, and heather among others. It is made in the distillery's copper pot stills and brought to proof with water from their own well 240 feet below the distillery. Dingle is a town located on the rugged Dingle Peninsula on the west coast of Ireland. The distillery makes whiskey and vodka in addition to the gin. As of late 2018, these three products are available in the US.

Minke Irish Gin is made from a base of whey sourced by local dairy farmers including the distillery's own. Its featured botanical is the rock samphire, also known as sea fennel. The gin's name comes from the Minke whale which swims along the Atlantic Ocean coastline near the distillery in County Cork.