Put Your Name in the Running for a Pour of Pappy Van Winkle’s Reserve at Kildare’s West Chester (Feb. 17)

Dane Gray, owner of Kildare’s Irish Pub in West Chester, has gotten his hands on a rare bottle—only 100 of the latest batch entered Pennsylvania—of Pappy Van Winkle’s Family Reserve 15 Year.

Beginning at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, February 17, Gray will conduct a lottery for those who want to purchase a pour for $16. All entrants will receive a ticket and 12 winners will be chosen. The first name pulled gets a pour on the house. Gray’s latest score is part of his ongoing initiative to broaden and elevate Kildare’s whiskey offerings to a whole new level. Another recent rare acquisition was one of only 54 bottles of Sazerac Rye 18 Year to arrive in Pennsylvania.

The full list of Kildare’s current top shelf whiskies includes:

• Bourbon: Blood Oath Pact No. 1, Jeffersons Groth Finish, Jeffersons Ocean Finish, Whistle Pig Rye
• Irish: Jameson Vintage ($300 a bottle), Jameson 18 Year, Midleton Very Rare, Redbreast 15 Year, Yellow Spot
• Scotch: Chivas Regal 18 Year, Glenlivet 18 Year, Compass Box Peat Monster, Glenlivet Nadurra 16 Year, Lagavulin 16 Year, Laphroaig Cairdeas, Scapa Orkney Island
• World Whiskies: Hibiki 12 Year, Nikka C​offey G​rain, Yamazaki

Find Kildare’s Irish Pub at 18 W. Gay St. in West Chester; phone: (610) 431-0770.

• Photography: Jim Berman