There is no Créatúr without you. A community of likeminded spirits and curious tipplers. In an effort to fund the book’s creation, we’d like to share the experience of its writing with you. The Supporters  will receive:

• From commencement through to May 2027, a running calendar of online live chats and in-person events we’re calling ‘The Poor Creature Hedge School‘, chatting with our distiller friends through some of the most niche and unmarketable whiskey topics on the internet. Due to the unhelpful laws of physics, the in-person events will be subject to capacity and ticketed at a nominal running cost on a first come first serve basis. They will all be in Ireland.
• All online talks are also recorded and available to our Supporters for playback at any time via a members log-in site, a resource for those who missed a talk in the past or would like to revisit previous topics with a fresh dram in hand. The archive will also allow new members who sign up to the Créatúr Project an opportunity to listen in on talks that happened before they joined our motley crew of crowd-funders.
• Upon publication (scheduled for 2027, hard date pending) you’ll receive a copy of Créatúr signed and editioned by the author, with your name included (if you want) as a supporter.
• ⁠In 2028, you’ll receive one 500ml cask strength bottle of An Créatúr Bocht (The Poor Creature), a single cask, single pot still whiskey triple distilled by Boann Distillery from 40% Malt, 40% Raw Barley, 15% Oats, and 5% rye, left to rest in an Oloroso sherry hogshead. Bonded and bottled by our friends at Two Stacks.

Hand on heart, however, it’s a peculiar creature who would want to join. Do you want to talk about a codeword for salt in distilling instructions in the Mappae Clavicula? Does the smell of old lino off a drink strike you as a pleasant thing? Does Bulcán the troublesome help you sleep? Sixty years on, are you kept awake still thinking about the barley-based grain whiskey once distilled for Bushmills at the Coleraine Distillery?  Do you spread trad pot on your trad pot? Do you not know what any of that means but want to learn? Then this is the hedge school for you! And once the book’s written, it’s going to disband and we’ll retreat into the night as best we’re still able.

Créatúr itself is a little peculiar. Mediaeval alchemical manuscripts, blueprints for Victorian Belfast distilleries, the seventeenth-century household distilling journals of three women in Clare or Harry Clarke’s 1920s pamphlets for Jameson mightn’t be topics for a mainstream publication but they’re at the heart of what Créatúr is to us. Like a well-kept cask, your support allows Créatúr to mature without adulterants. And as for the cask? Well, it’s a bit peculiar itself and we’d love to share that with you too.