Explorer · for families with Irish roots
Your clients come to find the parish their family left. Send them home having left something behind — a cask in a Carlow bond, under the family name, that brings the whole family back to bottle it.
Your client is a family with Irish roots coming to Ireland to find them. You are already selling them the flights, the beds, the parish, the archive, the coast. We add one hosted day: they fill a cask at our bond in Carlow, put the family name on the head, and leave it maturing in Ireland with a bottling date ten years out.
One cask, a named share for everyone in it, ten years of contact, and a return trip with a date on it. Sold through you, both times.
The market you are selling into
North America is Ireland’s largest long-haul source market, and ancestry is one of the reasons those visitors give for coming. You do not have to create the demand. It lands every summer, in family groups, looking for something to do with the connection once they have found it.
Irish government diaspora estimate · US Census Bureau, American Community Survey · Statistics Canada census returns · Australian Bureau of Statistics
One cask, split into as many named shares as the family needs — across siblings, cousins and in-laws — nobody carries it alone, and every seat-holder is named on the cask and gets their own login. That is what makes a four-figure cask a gift-sized decision for each person in the group.
See how a cask is built →
Ten years of reasons to be in touch: progression samples posted out, gauging updates from the bond, the finishing vote, the re-cask. Your name is on every one of those touchpoints, because the booking came through you. No newsletter does that.
What lands in the years between →
A cask has a bottling day. That is a return trip with a date on it, a fixed group, and a reason nobody has to be sold on — and it is yours to book. The first trip pays you once. The cask pays you twice.
The return trip →
Independent · family owned · Larch Grove, Co. Carlow
Adventure in every drop. Home in every sip.
Where they fly in from
Most of them have never stood in the field their name came out of. The ones who make the trip are the highest-intent travellers Ireland has — and the least well served at the end of the week.
6 HRS 45
6 HRS 10
1 HR 20
A LONG WAY
HOME · 52°44′NDIASPORA FIGURES ARE WIDELY CITED APPROXIMATIONS — USE YOUR OWN MARKET DATA IN CLIENT DECKS
Forty million Americans claim Irish ancestry and a good share of them will make the trip once. Genealogy tours, parish records, the graveyard, the pub. It is a beautiful week and then it is over. This is the one part of it that keeps running after the flight home.
The cousins who never travel together will travel for this. There is a date, there is a barrel with the family name burned into the head, and there is a job to do when they get here. Nobody has to invent an occasion.
The Kearney Cask. The Murphy Cask. Stencilled on the head, printed on every bottle at the end, and photographed on fill day for everyone who could not come. Families do not buy whiskey here. They buy a family object.
They arrive looking for where the family came from. They leave having put the family name on something that is still here in 2046.
You plan the week — flights, beds, the parish day, the archives, 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. Drive times are from the bond in south Carlow.
Seats are how a family affords a barrel without one person carrying it. Each seat-holder gets their own login, their own samples, their own allocation of bottles at the end, and their own name in the cask record. A seat is a share of a barrel, not an investment.
Fourteen of the old families, where they held land, and the Irish the name came out of. Pick one and the map flies to its heartland. Most American families with a line back here carry one of these — and whichever it is, it gets burned into the cask head and printed on every bottle at the end.
Every one of these started the same way: somebody left a townland with nothing and never saw it again. What makes them famous is not the leaving. It is that a generation later, somebody came back to look.
A day in a farmyard, a pint in a bar, a look at a wall. None of them left anything behind that gave the next generation a reason to follow. A cask does exactly that — a family name in a Carlow bond, with a date on it, and a bottling day the grandchildren have to travel for.
Historical illustrations of the Irish-American return, drawn from the public record. No affiliation with, or endorsement by, any of these families or estates is implied.
We are not selling your clients a story we do not have ourselves. The bond their cask sits in is on ground a Walsh bought at a country auction eighty years ago, and the whole reason the programme exists is that we already know what it is worth to have somewhere to come back to.
The Harvest is not a nice idea, it is a date in the cask record. When the whiskey is ready the family comes back to bottle it themselves — and the family that came for a long weekend the first time comes for ten days the second, with the next generation added.
A second Ireland holiday, already justified
More travellers than the first trip
You are the one they call, because you booked the first one
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 family 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 family sees.
See the portal → PER-SEAT LOGINS · YOU ARE NAMED ON IT
Put us on a call with the family — 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 client. Every progression note, every sample, every invitation to the bond goes out with you in the loop, and the return trip in ten years is yours to book.
