Neil Conway

Head Brewer

Neil is the Head Brewer at Waterford Distillery. As well as managing a team of distillers, Neil is responsible for getting the barley to 'talk'. He works with each individual batch of malted barley as soon as it arrives on site, through to fermentation and distillation, fine tuning the distillery's sophisticated equipment accordingly. He has over 15 years of experience in the brewing industry a a co-author of the whisky academic paper: "The Impact of Terroir on the Flavour of Single Malt Whisk(e)y New Make Spirit" published in the peer-review journal Foods.