The first new distillery in dublin in over 125 years brings the teelings home to their ancestral roots. However, the teeling whiskey company secured a significant share of cask stocks by contract and now bottles this whiskey under its own label. That started when john teeling established the cooley whiskey distillery in 1987, and since the sale of cooley to one of the aforementioned conglomerates in. Louth in 1987 and converted it to consumable spirit production. While teeling distillery is a new addition to the city, the founders family has ties to whiskey stretching as far back as 1782, when walter teeling owned one of the 38 distilleries that then called dublin home. Teeling used to own the cooley distillery and distil its grains on the large column still there. In the middle of a forgotten corner of dublin, the teeling whiskey company is emerging from a literal pile of rubble.
The teeling family have been crafting irish whiskey since walter teeling opened his first craft distillery on marrowbone lane, dublin in 1782. Oct 27, 2016 pretax profits at the teeling whiskey company soared by 73%, last year, to 2. John teeling founded cooley distillery in 1987, which was sold to beam at the end of 2011. Cooley distillery is an irish whiskey distillery, located on the cooley peninsula in county louth, ireland, converted in 1987 from an older potato alcohol plant by john teeling. Cooley distillery is located on the cooley peninsula near the border of northern ireland. Fastforward to the present not forgetting the era when john teeling owned the cooley distillery, before selling it.
The teeling family are renowned for doing things differently a. Teeling acquired the ceimici teo distillery in 1987. The new teeling distillery will open in 2015 just a stones throw from where walter teeling had his distillery all those years ago. The teeling distillery has been in the whiskey business since 1782. Dublins first new distillery in over 125 years and the home of teeling whiskey, situated in the heart of dublin. Louisiana california cocktails library kids programs. We were lucky enough to be given a sneak peak tour of the distillery by stephen teeling, who protected us from flying sparks, sheetrock dust and dangerous looking construction workers that somehow maintained that unmistakable irish charm.
Cooley distillery company profile and news bloomberg. The kilbeggan distillery itself was reopened in 2007 and is run in conjunction with cooley and proffers the companys storage facilities. This new venture stems from another highprofile, familybased business named cooley distillery. The international success and rising sales of cooley whiskeys aroused the interest of some spirit companies. Book chapter, case, instructor material, management article, multimedia, software, video. The cooley distillery was established by john teeling who, after studying in america, concluded that there was a solid market for a new irish whiskey. Initially launching as a bottling company, the brothers have went on to build the first whiskey distillery in dublin since 1976. Presumably, there is more pot still spirit aging at teeling that will eventually be released as a traditional irish pot still whiskey. Have a great paddys day wherever you are madeleine balogi customer experience manager. Cooley distillery is an irish whiskey distillery, located on the cooley peninsula in county louth, ireland, converted in 1987 from an older potato alcohol plant by.
Prior to cooley distillery the production and sale of irish whiskey had been. In 1782 walter teeling set up a craft distillery on marrowbone lane in the liberties area of dublin commencing a 230 year tradition of distilling for the teeling family. Beam announces agreement to purchase cooley distillery, award. Whiskey production dwindled for a while, but teeling a company thats been making whiskey for 230 years is back with a vengeance. The teeling whiskey distillery experience will be unlike any other in the country, allowing visitors to see, smell and experience a full operational distillery and interact with the people who make teeling whiskey. The family sold cooley in 2012 and immediately set up their own new company. Best irish whiskey for a highend home bar bloomberg. The cooley distillery owes its existence to john teeling, who took over the old. I already wrote about the excellent teeling whiskey 21 years a couple of months ago this one is the base offer, a blended teeling whiskey with a high malt content and no age statement. At the time, nearly 40 independent distilleries dotted the rolling irish landscape, the majority of which were centralized in the industrial engine room of the city the liberties. The newmarket square site will use existing buildings to speed up the construction process, with stills and hardware expected to arrive at the site in october and the first. The company had always planned to open its own distillery, however, and in the spring of 2015, spirit started flowing at the teeling distillery. Teeling distillery to be first in dublin for 125 years.
The current generations of the family owned and operated cooley distillery, founded by john teeling in 1987 and sold to beam in 2012. Teeling also makes a whiskey aged in wine barrels cabsav. The teeling family then launched teeling whiskey and are now building the first new irish whiskey distillery in dublin for 125 years. Located in the heart of dublin city centre, in the historic liberties, the teeling whiskey distillery is the first new distillery in dublin for over 125 years and home to the spirit. The teeling whiskey distillery is dublins newest destination for whiskey fans and for anyone with an interest in dublins long association with irish whiskey. Cooley distillery recently joined the beam family of companies in january 2012. The malt whisky was produced on two scottish type pot stills. In 1989, john teeling started the cooley distillery and employed his sons, jack and stephen. August 11, 2014 teeling whiskey company has started construction work on dublins first whiskey distillery since the closings of the old jameson distillery and the powers johns lane distillery in the mid1970s. Stephen stayed on when beam acquired cooley distillery 2012, and left to rejoin his. An irish pairing dinner with master distiller alex chasko. The company offers distillery, whiskey, beer, and other related products. Teelings begin construction on dublin distillery whiskycast. An irish pairing dinner with master distiller alex.
The current distillery is just a few hundred meters away from this original location. An interview with john teeling of the cooley distillery, ireland, on. John teelings family owned about a third of the cooley distillery in louth. Cooley whisky buy cooley whiskies online master of malt. As it happened it was the enticing smell of a freshly cooked breakfast that eventually got us out of the bed to face the day. Beam buys last independent irish whiskey distillery. Jun 06, 2014 in january, the teeling whiskey company twc announced plans for a new whiskey distillery to be located in dublins newmarket square in the liberties, dublin 8. A grain column still will not be installed as grain spirit can be sourced from cooley distillery, co louth, or from the great northern distillery in dundalk. Remember the teelings, who started the cooley company, sold it and now started their own company again. Since 1782 the teeling family has been crafting irish whiskey and it all began with walter. Teeling converted this plant to a whiskey distillery, reopening it in 1989 as cooley distillery. Teeling whiskey is dedicated to bringing new and innovative flavours to irish whiskey. Cooley distillery a complete guide flaviar whiskey club.
It was the first whiskey distillery to open in ireland in 100 yea. Inspired by both traditional and unconventional techniques in distillation and maturation, teeling whiskey is creating small batch bottlings of true character never tasted before, raising the bar for irish whiskey with over 200 international whiskey awards. Since 1782 the teeling family has been crafting irish whiskey, says jack teeling, the founder of the teeling whiskey company. Teeling distillery is an irish whiskey distillery established in dublin in 2015. Irish whiskey founded by the family who built cooley distillery, teeling is at the forefront of the irish whiskey renaissance. Teeling whiskey company ltd twc is the brainchild of entrepreneur jack teeling. Apr 12, 2016 while teeling distillery is a new addition to the city, the founders family has ties to whiskey stretching as far back as 1782, when walter teeling owned one of the 38 distilleries that then called dublin home. If our hotel room had been around about 100 years ago we could have inhaled the rich malt aromas hovering in the air as the distillery was only a stones throw across the river.
Founded in 2012, the teeling whiskey company is irelands leading progressive whiskey company. I saw firsthand the growing trend for craft beer and spirits as well as the trend towards urban based breweries distilleries. Distilled in 1991, this 24yearold whiskey from teeling was aged initially in bourbon barrels before being finished in sauternes casks. Teeling whiskey profits begin to flow irish examiner. I like single malt scotch but this has been my main purchase in the last few weeks. Louth which had previously been set up by the irish free state government to produce industrial alcohol from potatoes. Teeling whiskey 24 year old is the worlds best single malt. Beams muscling into the irish whiskey picture has spurred many of the micro distillery plans in ireland, and it also prompted jack teeling, the former managing director of cooley, to start his own brand, the teeling whiskey company. The founder of cooley distillery has been laying down highquality malt and grain in.
In fact, in 1987, there were only two producing whiskey distilleries in ireland. The idea for the teeling whiskey company was formed during my travels in the 2000s around the world selling and promoting irish whiskey during my cooley distillery days. With a distillery in dublin and incredible whiskey stocks from their old distillery, they are producing a great range of irish whiskey. However, the proud history of irish whiskey could not end this way, said the irishman john teeling and founded the cooley distillery. Cooley is one of only three sources for irish whiskey, and the only. Mar 21, 2016 the teeling family has a long history of irish whiskey making, having founded the wellknown cooley distillery. In 1782, walter teeling opened a distillery along marrowbone lane in dublin, ireland. Since the teelings parted company with cooley, the company they started, weve been waiting for their return and here it is teeling whiskey. In 2011, the distillery was sold to what is now beamsuntory, and as part of the sales agreement, the teelings retained. John teeling is founder and chairman of cooley distillery. As former managing director of cooley distillery the company founded by his father, john teeling, jack has extensive knowledge and experience of the irish whiskey industry.
Teeling whiskey, irelands leading progressive irish whiskey company is proud to announce that its 24yearold single malt has claimed the prestigious worlds best single malt award at the 2019 world whiskies awards. The newmarket square used to trade all the grains and malts from the region in dublin. The teeling family has a long history of irish whiskey making, having founded the wellknown cooley distillery. While the teeling distillery of today was officially opened in 2015, the brands history in irish whiskey actually stretches back to 1782, when a chap called walter teeling set up a distillery in the liberties area of dublin. Teeling whiskey company distillery tour ace spirits blog. Jun 30, 2017 jack and stephen were able to buy large stocks of maturing cooley whiskey around the time of the purchase, and that is what goes into teelings bottles today. Bushmills in the north and midleton in the south county cork.
Made with a small amount of peated malt, this is a subtly sweet whiskey with notes of ripe fruit and a hint of smoke. In 1987, john teeling, a descendant of walter teeling purchased a facility in cooley, co. Interestingly, it was the first new distillery to be opened in dublin in more than 125 years. Production starts in the fourth quarter of 2014 with the visitor centre. Welcome to the home of the award winning cooley distillery on linkedin. In 2011 jim beam bought the cooley distillery for 95 million us dollars. Teeling whiskey company single grain irish whiskey 70cl. The founder of the first distillery was walter teeling and he set up his small distillery in the marrowbone lane in dublin. Beam, a leading global premium spirits company, today. Jack was managing director of cooley distillery, the business his father founded in 1987. The cooley distillery, a subsidiary of beam suntory, produces. Teeling whiskey unconventional irish whiskey teeling whiskey.
Teeling whiskey, irelands leading progressive irish whiskey company is proud to announce that its 24yearold single malt has claimed the prestigious worlds best single. Whiskey systems craft distillery management made easy. Teeling irish whisky small batch the rum howler blog. Teeling distillery company the whisky exchange whisky show. In fact, with the last of the original dublin distilleries having closed in 1976, it is the first whiskey distillery to operate in dublin, once home to at least 37 distilleries, in almost 40. Teeling small batch irish whiskey selfbuilts whisky. The standard bearer, teeling irish whiskey, is a blend of sourced whiskey for the time being. In 1987, john teeling converted a potato alcohol plant into a whiskey distillery. Teeling irish whiskey teeling distillery dublin, ireland. Around the time of cooley s eventual acquisition into beamsuntory, jack teeling son of cooley founder john teeling, struck out on his own and under his family name.
Cooley was the first whiskey distillery to be founded in ireland for over a century and it was not long before the owners began to acquire famous brands and distilleries that had been mothballed. Teeling is a young distillery, opened in 2011 by brothers stephen and jack teeling. Now led by brothers jack and stephen, teeling has its own distillery in dublin the first to be built in the city in more than 125 years and a range of awardwinning irish whiskeys. Teeling small batch whiskey bourbon scotch enthusiasts. Given irish distiller groups monopoly of irish whiskey at the time, what motivated you to start up the cooley distillery. It is the first new whiskey distillery to have opened in dublin, once a world whiskey distilling capital, in over 125 years. Szeni whisky collection page 4 the great szeni whisky. The teeling family are currently bottling whiskey s from cooley, and this first release is a small batch of casks that have been bottled at 46% without chill filtration or colouring. Finished in rum casks and bottled at 46% without chillfiltration, its an excellent statement of intent. Teeling whiskey company, dublin, was founded by jack teeling, the former managing director of cooley distillery, to bring back an independent voice to the irish whiskey industry in 2012. The distillery was established by jack and stephen teeling, whose father john teeling had founded the cooley distillery in 1987. For now, the teeling brothers are maturing and bottling old stocks from their fathers cooley distillery while they get their own production up and running. Teeling irish whiskey sells minority stake to bacardi.
Located right in the heart of oldtown, the teeling whiskey distillery is a return to form for an area of the city that used to be known as the golden triangle. In 1998, cooley won a trophy at the iwsc for outstanding quality, becoming the first ever to win that trophy. That started when john teeling established the cooley whiskey distillery in 1987, and since the sale of cooley to one of the aforementioned conglomerates in 2011 it has continued with his sons, jack and stephen, who both worked with their father at cooley, and the establishment of their own teeling whiskey company. It was the first whiskey distillery to open in ireland in 100 years.
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