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Afternoon Tea & Gin Masterclass
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Stillgarden Distillery sits just south of Dublin city centre in Stillorgan, and it crafts a range of modern Irish gins with real character. This afternoon tea experience takes you behind the scenes to find out what actually goes into each bottle - from the 120 botanicals lining the distillery walls to the blending decisions that give every gin its personality.
Your host starts with a welcome drink and a walkthrough of the history of distillation before guiding you through a tasting flight of four signature gins. Each pour comes with proper tasting notes and pairing suggestions, so you’ll come away actually knowing your juniper from your coriander seed rather than just nodding along. It’s the kind of knowledge that makes you much better company at a bar.
After the tasting you settle in for a full afternoon tea - layered cake stands, finger sandwiches, and sweet treats that pair surprisingly well with a gin and tonic. The session wraps up with a relaxed Q&A where you can ask the distillery’s liquid experts whatever you like. If gin isn’t your thing, non-alcoholic alternatives are available - just let the team know when you book and they’ll sort you out.
Get the Luas Green Line to Stillorgan and save yourself the parking headache. Stillgarden is an easy journey from the city centre, and since you’re tasting gin you’ll be glad you don’t have to drive back. The Luas stops within reasonable walking distance of the distillery, and the journey from the city takes about 20 minutes.
Go in with curiosity rather than expertise. You don’t need to know anything about gin to have a brilliant time here. The liquid expert is used to absolute beginners and genuine enthusiasts alike, and the Q&A session is much more interesting when people ask the questions they actually want answered rather than the ones they think sound sophisticated.
Try the non-alcoholic botanical flight if you’re not a spirits person. It’s genuinely worth doing even if gin isn’t your drink - you still get to understand the botanicals, the blending process, and the craft behind the distillery. The afternoon tea is just as good regardless.
This makes a really strong alternative to a standard Dublin city activity if you’ve already done the museums and castles. It’s south of the city so it feels like a proper trip somewhere, and it’s the kind of thing Dublin locals don’t always know about themselves. Good conversational currency.
Book it as a paired outing with something nearby. Stillorgan is close to the coast at Dun Laoghaire, so you could easily combine the distillery experience with a coastal walk along the pier or a meal by the sea before or after.