Events
Catch us on the hoof at Gin Festivals, Events, Galas & Exhibitions that you’ll find Bertha’s Revenge appearing at throughout the year!-
Old Butter Roads Food Festival 2019
The Old Butter Roads Food Festival 2019 (May 24th to June 1st) returns for the third year running and, this time, the flagship event will be the Old Butter Roads Food Festival (May 24-26) taking place over two days in the award-winning O’Mahony’s Gastropub & Courtyard, in Watergrasshill, where food writer Joe McNamee’s Grub Circus curates and hosts a family-friendly programme of fun food-related events for all ages as well as assembling a range of top guest speakers and contributors including Irish food legend Darina Allen, for the Old Butter Roads Food Symposium. As always, The Old Butter Roads Food Festival 2019 will showcase the splendid food produce, hospitality venues and tourism and leisure activities to be found along the trails of Cork’s historical Old Butter Roads region and delivered by the members of the Old Butter Roads Food Trails network.
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Bertha Sessions - Live Music & Curry Supper
Bertha Sessions live-music and curry supper this coming Friday, 5th April. We are delighted to bring you The Rambling Siulers, a talented Irish duo will perform live.
Brilliant value with tickets at €25 per person which include entry to the gig and a one-course curry supper.
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Gin Experience Dublin 2019
We will be bringing Bertha to Gin Experience Dublin this year. The event is being held at the iconic Printworks building at Dublin Castle and is on 12th and 13th April 2019. More than 40 producers and over 130 gins from both home and abroad will come together to fill Dublin Castle with passion, expertise and of course gin tipples.
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Droimeann Cattle Society launches Herd Book at Ballyvolane House
The launch of the Droimeann Cattle Society Herd Book was held at Ballyvolane House on Wednesday, 22nd August 2018. There was a terrific turnout to support this historic event. It is a monumental occasion as it is the first cattle breed to be recognised in Ireland since 1927. The society are doing really important work to help preserve one of the rarest of the Irish rare-breeds. There are between 200 and 300 Droimeann cattle surviving in Ireland today. RTE’s Ear to the Ground filmed the event which will be aired in November. Thank you to everyone for coming & supporting the launch.
Bertha’s Revenge Gin is named after the most famous Droimeann of them all - Big Bertha, the world’s oldest cow. Fittingly, our distillery is located in an old cow shed in the farm yard at Ballyvolane. Ballyvolane translates into gaelic as ‘the place of leaping heifers’.
Happy happy day!
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Feast - East Cork Food & Drink Festival 2018 - Bertha’s Revenge Gin Distillery Tour & Lunch
As part of FEAST - EAST CORK FOOD & DRINK FESTIVAL, we are delighted to be hosting a Bertha’s Revenge Gin Distillery Tour, Tasting and a long-table lunch at Ballyvolane House on Thursday, 6th September 2018.
Date: Thursday, 6th September 2018
Time: 12noon distillery tour. 1pm lunch.
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Bertha partying at All Together Now Festival at Curraghmore Estate
Justin is heading to ‘All Together Now’ at Curraghmore House on Sunday, 5th August and will be showing and sharing Bertha’s Revenge Gin Reviver tipples with the audience at the Grubb Circus curated by food writer and journalist, Joe McNamee. Fantastic line-up and looking forward to it enormously!
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Bertha pops-up at The Irish Whiskey Museum Dublin on Thursday, 26th July
Ballyvolane House Spirits Company bring Bertha’s Revenge Small Batch Milk Gin to Dublin for a special B&T (Bertha’s & Tonic) tasting at the Irish Whiskey Museum.
A hand-crafted gin which uses whey alcohol from Irish dairy farmers, the natural spring water from Ballyvolane House and incorporating an interesting mix of 18 locally foraged and grown botanicals, Bertha’s Revenge is designed to celebrate the life of a very special cow. On Thursday July 26th, co-founder Antony Jackson will guide guests through the history of Bertha - a Guinness World Record-holder as the oldest cow ever recorded, passing away just three months short of her 49th birthday – along with tips on how to make the perfect B&T.
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Old Butter Roads Summer Feile 2018
The Old Butter Roads Food Trails is super excited to be organising the 2nd year of the Summer Féile and this year looks to be even better than last year. Festivities kick off on Saturday May 05 with the Blarney/Cork Féile which will also include the official launch of The Féile.
The Old Butter Road Summer Féile is a month long festival that will be launched with an event at Church of the Resurrection, Blarney. The Féile will be officially launched by renowned food writer Joe McNamee . The Old Butter Roads Food Trails Producers and Restauranteurs will also be in attendance. Both Ballyvolane House and Bertha’s Revenge Gin are proud to be members of the Old Butter Roads.
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Poacher's Gin & Tonic Club - All Munster Gins Edition
A totally unique experience where we bring together some of the finest gins of Munster and pair with them Ireland’s first and only premium tonic waters. Enjoy full serves of two varieties from Blackwater Distillery from Waterford, Dingle Gin from The Dingle Whiskey Distillery in Kerry and we will be showing Bertha’s Revenge Gin with Poacher’s classic and citrus tonic waters. Ambassadors from the brands will be on hand to share details of how all the spirits and tonic waters are made and how they can best be enjoyed!
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Junipalooza London 2018
Junipalooza London 2018 at Tobacco Docks on Saturday, 9th and Sunday, 10th June 2018.
We are delighted to be bringing Bertha to London for Junipalooza this year.
The annual Gin festival is a very much one of a kind; not only are all of the makers behind each gin there to talk you through their products in person, but every single gin is free to sample and comes with the option to drink neat or with tonic.
Over 60 gin brands will be in attendance, with well over 100 gins on offer between them. Once through the door, you’ll be handed a tasting glass and off you go to taste you way through the next four hours. Your ticket entitles you to as many samples as you’d like to try, as well as access to a range of talks and masterclasses from industry experts, a great cocktail bar and a room full of gin geeks having the best time since… well, last year’s stellar event.