Belfast Crumlin Prison Now A Distillery

[William]

I am a bit slow posting about this so you all may already know.

Belfast Crumlin Road prison, a notorious Belfast prison that held Irish Republican Army inmates during the worst of the city's sectarian strife is to be transformed into a Whiskey distillery as Northern Ireland tries to reinvent itself and its struggling economy.

A wing of the Victorian-era Crumlin Road prison, which closed in 1996, will house the first whiskey production in 75 years in a city that was once Ireland's largest producer and will offer exhibitions and tasting facilities for visitors.

The government has awarded a lease to lottery millionaire Peter Lavery to establish a boutique distillery in a wing of the Victorian prison, a Grade A listed building built in 1845.

The former bus driver won 10.2 million pounds in 1996 and now heads the Belfast Distillery Company BDC.L, a consortium of local businessmen who are pumping 5 million pounds into the project.

Lavery last year launched two whiskeys - under the Titanic and Danny Boy brands - which are currently produced for him across the Irish border in Co Louth at the Cooley Distillery.

Read more here:
www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/belfastcrumlinprisonwhiskey.htm
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[Grant M]

This has been on the news here over the last few weeks, good to see Belfast will have a distillery again. It remains to be seen what style of whiskey it will produce, double or triple distilled.