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Some ingredients refuse to sit still. For ‘Sip & Nip’, we took and Blackpitts single malt and sent them on a wild adventure. A living culture slowly transforms them into vinegar over several weeks, creating flavours that weren’t there before. Before each batch is finished, a little is held back to start the next one. The culture keeps going, is fed, cared for and passed forward, helping create something new every time.

Inspired by in Lahinch, Co. Clare, Sip & Nip is rooted in the idea of regeneration. Their organic farming practices show how healthy systems can replenish themselves over time, building stronger soil, richer biodiversity and a more resilient landscape.

Fermentation is strange, wonderful, and occasionally feels a bit like magic. That’s why we love it. You leave a culture alone with a couple of great ingredients and, weeks later, it hands you back something entirely different. Tasty Alchemy, if you will…

SIP & NIP
•Teeling Pot Still Whiskey
•Teeling Blackpitts Whiskey
•Killahora Apple Ice Wine
•Beamish Stout
•Fennel
•Smoked Ice Wine Lees

Bright and quietly wild, Late to Dinner drinks almost like a forest spritz. Sharp raspberry acidity and ripe fruit give way to green pine, dry apple and soft herbal notes, before finishing long with gentle fermentation and woodland bitterness.

Drawing inspiration from who champion the restoration and regeneration of Ireland’s native woodlands, and the idea of fallen forests becoming ecosystems once again, the drink also features an exclusive Cask blend of Irish Apple Brandy created in collaboration with .

Last year, we collected a wild yeast culture from a fallen pine tree, allowing the landscape itself to shape the fermentation process. That living culture now forms the foundation of both the soda and wild raspberry vinegar used in the drink, bringing a sense of time, place and renewal to every pour. Pine appears throughout the drink in different forms, adding freshness, structure and a distinct sense of place without overpowering the fruit. Rosebay willowherb also features, a plant often among the first to return after disturbance or deforestation, and long associated with resilience and regrowth.

Slightly untamed and alive with fermentation, it’s a drink that symbolises what returns to nature when we allow landscapes time to heal.