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CORMAC SPEAKS IN GAELIC | 0:00:07 | 0:00:09 | |
SEAGULLS CRY | 0:00:16 | 0:00:17 | |
Noel, I have a confession to make - | 0:05:41 | 0:05:42 | |
I've never been in a distillery before. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
If I had to imagine it, this is probably the way | 0:05:44 | 0:05:47 | |
I would have imagined it. But this isn't the start of it, is it? | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
No, not at all, this is the end of the distillation process, | 0:05:49 | 0:05:52 | |
when we put the spirit into the casks for maturation. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:56 | |
They have to lie here for three years | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
before we can call them whiskey. | 0:05:59 | 0:06:02 | |
Now, in Cooley, we make three different types of whiskey. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
We have a malt whiskey, which is just plain malt, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
and it gives us a very fruity type of whiskey. | 0:06:09 | 0:06:13 | |
We have a peated malt, which has been dried using | 0:06:13 | 0:06:16 | |
peat in the process. And that gives us a smoky flavour to the whiskey. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
And the third one is grain, and we use grain to give us | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
a blending whiskey for a light character whiskey. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
And most of the character in that whiskey comes from the casks | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
which you see here. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
Noel, you are a master distiller here in this distillery. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:42 | |
What does a master distiller do? | 0:06:42 | 0:06:43 | |
I am responsible for the liquid in the bottle that people | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
get at the end of the day. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
The whole essence of the work that I do is about consistency, so you | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
want to make sure you get the same raw materials coming in. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
We check the water, we check the barley, we check the malt, | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
we check all of the ingredients that go into making the whiskey. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
-What I'm leading up to, of course, is can I taste of some of these whiskeys? -Well, of course... | 0:07:01 | 0:07:06 | |
-LAUGHTER -...there's no point in coming to a distillery without | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
having an opportunity to see what's involved. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
So we would look at something like the grain whiskey... | 0:07:11 | 0:07:14 | |
This is the way it comes off the stills - | 0:07:14 | 0:07:16 | |
clear - there is absolutely no colour in it at all. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:19 | |
This sample is 69%. That's the strength it goes into the barrel at. | 0:07:19 | 0:07:24 | |
So when we taste whiskeys at this kind of strength, | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
we need to put them into a nice tasting glass. We add some water. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
Most of the tasting is coming from your nose, not from your mouth. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:36 | |
That's why we use nosing classes to taste the whiskey. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
-So if you taste that, it's very mild, very light. -Very light. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
That's the grain. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
There's not too much of an aftertaste. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:50 | |
-No, there shouldn't be. -It's very light. | 0:07:50 | 0:07:53 | |
I'm wondering, is the location of this distillery accidental, | 0:07:53 | 0:07:56 | |
or is there something about the local area here that adds | 0:07:56 | 0:08:00 | |
a certain something to the quality of your whiskey? | 0:08:00 | 0:08:03 | |
Everything about the distillery | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
and where it is impacts on the final product. | 0:08:05 | 0:08:07 | |
We are very fortunate that we have a very good water source | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
in Slieve na gCloc, | 0:08:12 | 0:08:14 | |
which is behind the distillery here. | 0:08:14 | 0:08:15 | |
We're shadowed by the two mountains on either side, and this creates | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
its own little microclimate where we would have a mild winter. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:27 | |
So that gives us an extra couple of months, maybe, | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
of maturation time that you wouldn't | 0:08:30 | 0:08:32 | |
get in somewhere like the North Highlands of Scotland. | 0:08:32 | 0:08:36 | |
GERRY SPEAKS IN GAELIC | 0:10:28 | 0:10:30 | |
PADRAIG SPEAKS IN GAELIC | 0:14:07 | 0:14:09 | |
EAMONN SPEAKS IN GAELIC | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
Brendan, I come from a county not with a strong hurling tradition, | 0:21:57 | 0:21:59 | |
but a strong tradition of bullets, where the idea was to cover | 0:21:59 | 0:22:02 | |
a distance in the shortest number of throws. | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
Is this the same sort of thing? | 0:22:04 | 0:22:06 | |
Yeah, pretty much the same thing. The course is 5km around. | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
It works its way around in a square. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:10 | |
Rougher terrain, harder to get your feet, there is | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
a different technique involved in getting | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
around the mountain, but the same rules apply, | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
I suppose, where the ball falls... Then you hit your next poc | 0:22:17 | 0:22:20 | |
and the guy with the least amount of pocs around 5km gets the nod. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:22 | |
Is it always held over mountainous terrain? | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
It is. In the preliminary rounds, there is the provincial finals | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
that are held, so each county would have their Poc Fada round piches, | 0:22:32 | 0:22:35 | |
but the provisional finals now are held up on mountain ranges. | 0:22:35 | 0:22:39 | |
Not too dissimilar conditions to this. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:41 | |
It has really enhanced, I think, the brand of the Poc Fada | 0:22:41 | 0:22:43 | |
because it gives the competitor the real experience | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
of the mountain, because this is where the All Ireland final is on. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
One of the speeches earlier on specifically mentioned Cuchulainn | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
poccing the ball over the mountain - is this a conscious part of the Poc Fada tradition? | 0:22:52 | 0:22:56 | |
It is. That's where the history of it started. | 0:22:56 | 0:22:58 | |
You can see in all the branded merchandise we have | 0:22:58 | 0:23:01 | |
the Poc Fada and Cuchulainn is all across it, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
and I think it adds to the tourism part as well. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
Just to highlight that this is a very special place, you know? | 0:23:05 | 0:23:08 | |
I think everybody up here is delighted | 0:23:08 | 0:23:10 | |
to be part of a competition that | 0:23:10 | 0:23:11 | |
has such long time and history, | 0:23:11 | 0:23:13 | |
and obviously associated with the Cuchulainn part as well. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
So the state of play at the moment is that Eoin Reilly of Laoise | 0:23:20 | 0:23:23 | |
is across the finish line in 58 pocs, | 0:23:23 | 0:23:27 | |
-and the yardage I will find out in a while. -Right. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
How many yards are here? | 0:23:29 | 0:23:32 | |
-How many pocs to here? 50? -50 pocs. -About 50 pocs from here. -Right. | 0:23:32 | 0:23:37 | |
-It all depends on whether I can get home in eight pocs or not. -Do you reckon? | 0:23:37 | 0:23:41 | |
So God only knows, I suppose. You know? Could take seven, | 0:23:41 | 0:23:43 | |
but we'll see what way it goes. It depends on the wind and there's | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
a shower coming, so I want to get going before that comes in. | 0:23:46 | 0:23:49 | |
Right, Brendan, good luck. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:50 | |
Yes! | 0:24:19 | 0:24:20 | |
-Congratulations. Well done. It was a close-run thing at the end, though? -It was too close for comfort, | 0:24:21 | 0:24:26 | |
if I'm to be honest. You know, | 0:24:26 | 0:24:28 | |
when I got to the halfway point, I was one shot behind. | 0:24:28 | 0:24:30 | |
When I got to the last quarter coming across, | 0:24:30 | 0:24:33 | |
I was 30 yards behind. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:34 | |
So I made up the ground. And Eoin Reilly and Andrew Fahey, | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
who were second and third, ended up going into the ravine, | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
and I - luckily - cleared it. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
And it's small things like that over 5km... | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:24:44 | 0:24:45 | |
..that turns it and thankfully, 57 shots got me in first. | 0:24:45 | 0:24:50 | |
The winner of the 2015 Poc Fada - Brendan Cummins, Tipperary. | 0:24:50 | 0:24:55 | |
Has this set you up for another go next year? | 0:24:56 | 0:24:58 | |
I'll come up into the mountains as long as I'm invited, you know. | 0:24:58 | 0:25:01 | |
It's as simple as that. I think in life, if you're half good at something, you keep doing it. | 0:25:01 | 0:25:05 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:25:05 | 0:25:06 | |
No, I will, I will give it as many goes as I can. | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
While it's nice to win | 0:25:09 | 0:25:10 | |
and all that, even if I had come last up in the mountain today, | 0:25:10 | 0:25:12 | |
I'd still like the challenge of it, you know? And just to see how good I can be around the place. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:17 | |
So today, thankfully, it was one of those good days. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:19 |