Explorer · for incentive and event agencies
Your client has done the villa, the yacht and the escape room. This one they cannot repeat and cannot buy anywhere else — a cask filled by their own people, maturing under the company name, with a bottling date a decade out.
Three agencies pitch the same client with the same five destinations. One of them arrives with a working bond in Carlow, a cask the client’s team fills themselves, and a photograph of their logo on the head. That is the slide the client remembers.
Every incentive has the same problem: it is over on the Sunday. This one keeps arriving — progression notes, samples to the office, a bottling date in the calendar. Your client's HR team gets a decade of internal comms out of one trip.
Bottles at the end can be named, allocated and given — long-service awards, sales-club prizes, a leaving gift with a date on it that means something. A cask is a recognition programme that ages.
Every other proposal ends on the Sunday. Yours has a date in 2036 on the last page.
You plan the programme — flights, beds, sessions, activity days, transfers, the pricing. We facilitate one day of it: the cask day at Larch Grove. Everything below is a suggestion of where ours drops into yours, and nothing else on these lists is ours to sell or price. Drive times are from the bond in south Carlow.
Seats can sit in the company’s name, in the delegates’ names, or split — the company holds the cask, individuals hold seats they keep if they move on. Each seat-holder gets a login, samples and an allocation of bottles. A seat is a share of a barrel, not an investment, and we do not sell it as one.
You do not have to invent next year’s incentive from scratch. The Reckoning around year five and the Harvest at maturity are both fixed points in the cask record, both need flights, beds and hosting, and both are difficult for your client to hand to another agency.
A repeat programme with a built-in reason
Bottling in year ten as a milestone event
The client’s own people asking when the next trip is
Flying Tumbler is independent and family-owned. It was started by brothers Patrick and Thomas Walsh at Larch Grove — the family farm at Ballytarsna, Nurney, Co. Carlow, and the address the bond now sits on.
The name is a real breed of pigeon. A flying tumbler climbs, throws itself backwards through the air for the sport of it, and then finds its way home without fail. That is the whole idea of the brand in one bird, and Paddy has been on the bottle since the first one.
We do not distil. We source, cut, mature, marry and bottle by hand at Larch Grove — which is why we can hand a cask over to a group of people and let them do the work themselves.
The Bird
44% ABV / 88 proof
Triple-distilled malt and grain, five years in ex-bourbon. The house pour.
The Tippler
46% / 92 proof
Pot still and grain, bourbon, oloroso and ex-rye. Louder, spicier, built for cocktails.
The Roller
43% / 86 proof
Finished in ex-Jamaican rum casks. Clove, allspice, ripe banana.
“Like the bird, the Irish were born with wings.”
Our 2026 theme is Return Home. A cask is that idea with a date attached — the bird goes out, and something in Carlow keeps pulling it back.
You are not being asked to learn the whiskey business to sell this. Everything below comes with the arrangement, at no cost, and most of it carries your name rather than ours.
A client-facing deck and a one-page leave-behind, both in your brand or ours, plus the photography library, the wood library and copy blocks you can drop straight into your own proposals and emails. Nothing on it is priced for us — it is priced for you to price.
DECK · ONE-PAGER · PHOTOGRAPHY · COPY BLOCKS
A short printed book on the cask, the bond and the ten years — the object you put on the table in front of a client and leave behind afterwards. Sent to your office in whatever quantity you need, at no cost to you.
PRINTED · SHIPPED TO YOU · NO COST
The same builder your clients use: wood, size, seats, years. Move the seat count and the per-seat number moves with it, so you can answer “what would that cost each of us?” while they are still sitting in front of you instead of promising to come back to them.
Open the cask builder → LIVE PRICING · PER SEAT · 58 WOODS
Every seat-holder gets a login: the cask record, gauging updates, progression samples, the finishing vote, photographs from the bond. You are named on it as the partner who arranged it, and you see what the client sees.
See the portal → PER-SEAT LOGINS · YOU ARE NAMED ON IT
Put us on a call with the client — you on it too — and we will walk them through the wood, the years and the finish, and build the cask with them. You are not asked to be the whiskey expert. You are the one who found them something nobody else has.
WE TAKE THE WHISKEY QUESTIONS
We will also sit in on your own pitch if it helps — a fifteen-minute slot on your call, so the whiskey questions land with us and the itinerary questions stay with you.
You keep the account and the calendar. Every note that goes to your client goes to you first, and the programmes the cask generates come back through you.
