A distillery based in Ahascragh is to pilot an initiative for more sustainable whiskey production that aims to reduce CO2 emissions.
The programme, facilitated by Gas Networks Ireland and the Malting Company of Ireland, aims to show how renewable gas can be used in the process of malting barley to reduce carbon production.
The facility, founded by Gareth and Michelle McAllister, will use this sustainably malted barley in its whiskey production process.
Ahascragh Distillery is home to Ireland’s first zero energy emissions whiskey and gin distillery, built within a restored nineteenth-century mill.
Renewable biomethane gas can be used as an alternative in the kilning process, when the barley grain is being dried by hot air.
Kilning is the most energy intensive phase of the malting process, with biomethane reducing CO2 production from this process.
