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Martha Stewart "Baileys and Beyond: These Are the Irish Spirits to Add to Your Bar Cart" by Amy Cappiello
In the run up to St. Patrick’s Day, Emily Cappiello highlights Irish creams, a plethora of Irish whiskies, and some notable gins for marthastewart.com. We are delighted Bertha’s Revenge Irish Milk Gin is included. Thank you Emily!
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Bertha's Revenge Crab Apple Gin Liqueur
Antony Jackson and Justin Green co-founders and distillers of Bertha’s Revenge Gin are delighted to introduce a new member to their little herd ‘BERTHA’S REVENGE CRAB APPLE GIN LIQUEUR’.
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World Gin Awards 2022
We are proud and delighted that Sloe Bertha was award BEST IRISH SLOE GIN at the World Gin Awards 2022 in London. We are also chuffed to bits that Bertha’s Navy Strength was award SILVER. Thank you very much! We are celebrating!
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Big Bertha - the world's oldest cow
Bertha, or ‘Big Bertha’ as she was known, was a legendary Droimeann cow from Sneem in Co. Kerry. She was reared locally, and was bought as a calf by a farmer called Jerome O’Leary.
When she died on New Year’s Eve 1993, just 3 months shy of her 49th birthday, she had become something of a local celebrity. Over the course of her long life she had given birth to 39 calves, and this achievement, together with her tremendous age, had earned her an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. This fame was harnessed productively by Mr. O’Leary; Bertha became a regular at local fairs, and lead the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in Sneem where she was engaged in raising money for local cancer relief charities.
BERTHA’S WAKE The reason that we know so much about Bertha is that a mutual friend of ours, writer and historian Turtle Bunbury, stumbled upon her wake which was held in the Blackwater Tavern between Sneem and Kenmare on the the night of the 31st December 1993. We have always loved the story which he later had published in the Guardian newspaper.
When we were thinking of a name for our gin we wanted to find something that was eye-catching, distinctive and that dove-tailed with the pedigree of what are working with and what we have set out to achieve. The dairy farming heritage of Ballyvolane, our use of whey alcohol in the gin, and our shared love of the gorgeous and gentle characters that can be found only in Ireland led us back to Bertha. To immortalise her memory, we have brought her back in spirit, literally!!
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Merry Christmas!
A massive thanks to all our customers, distributors, partners, suppliers, families and especially our staff for all your wonderful support during 2021. It has been a challenging year but we are pleased that Bertha’s Revenge Gin is trucking along well despite the on-trade being closed for a large part of this year. We have got Bertha into some new export markets around the world and we are excited and optimistic about the future. We are especially looking forward to jumping on a plane again in 2022 to share Bertha love with our friends and distributors overseas.
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Christmas Market in Castlelyons, Sunday, 28th November
We are delighted to have a stall at “A Taste of Christmas” this coming Sunday, 28th November from 12noon to 4pm at Fr. Ferris Park in Castlelyons. Hope you can join us.
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Great Taste Awards 2021 - 2 Gold Stars for Bertha's Revenge Navy Strength
Bertha’s Revenge Navy Strength was just awarded 2 gold stars at the Great Taste Awards 2021. This is the highest score we can achieved for our gin so far.
Great Taste is the largest and most trusted accreditation scheme for fine food and drink. It supports, promotes and mentors artisan food producers large and small, who want to supply the UK independent retail sector and overseas stores selling fine food. Great Taste offers a unique benchmarking and product evaluation service leading to an independent accreditation that encourages confidence and commercial success for small business, generating greater awareness for products locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Since 1994, more than 130,000 products have been put through this robust judging process. Each one is fastidiously blind-tasted by selected chefs, buyers, fine food retailers, restaurateurs, food critics and writers over 70 judging days.
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Ginfluencers UK review Bertha's Revenge Gin
Oscar and Scott AKA The Ginfluencers UK gave Bertha’s Revenge Gin a glowing review on their YouTube channel. Bertha brought smiles to their faces and we are delighted they enjoyed Bertha so much. The sampled Bertha neat and with tonic in a ‘B&T’.
Thank you so much! Please come and see us if you are ever visiting Co. Cork