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Nephin is not yet a distillery as building work has not been completed.

You can drop into the Whiskey Emporium, over the rad from where the distillery is being built, and they will happily talk you through their plans for the distillery, including what has changed since the plans were first annunced (no gin or vodka; these have been dropped for a total focus on Irish Whiskey).

This is the first pre-distilery I have been to; I've visited a few distilleries soon after they opened, including the Borders Distillery which was a mere four months old when I visited. I was very interested in hearing all about it and look forward to returning in 2 or three years once they are open and have bedded in.

They are aiming to start production in April 2019; thsi will be dependent on the weather allowing them to complete the job of fitting the distillery and completing the building work.

I was surprised to learn that the intend to produce a peated Irish whiskey. I'd only encountered a single peated Irish whiskey on my visit to Ireland before visiting Nephin. A peated whiskey is actually a more traditional form as whiskey as people would have dried the malt with whatever fuel source they had and Ireland, like Scotland, had a lot pf peat (originally mosr Scottish whiskeies were peated as well, but this is now mainly confined to ,cpl slug='islay']).