Whisky Forum - Hybrid Malt Whiskey From The Teeling Whiskey Company

William

It seems that Jack Teeling the man behind the Irish Cooley Distillery which earlier this year was sold to Beam Global for $95 million just couldn't stay away from the whiskey industry for long. Jack has founded The Teeling Whiskey Company to bring back an independent Irish voice albeit with a bit of a Scottish accent with his first independent bottling release.

The company has created a whole new whiskey category with its first entry in to the marketplace with the launch of Hybrid Malt Whiskey which is a marriage of Irish Cooley whiskey and Bruichladdich Scotch whisky.

Read more here:
www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/teelinghybridmaltwhiskey.htm
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albo · Master Of Malts Joined: 22 Mar 2011 Posts: 1888

Priced at Â£30 looks very reasonable to me for something new and interesting, I do wonder what will taste like though.

Could this sort of thing be what we start to see more of going forward? More innovation, more creativity in the industy?

Brummie · Master Of Malts Joined: 08 Feb 2010 Posts: 661

Does sound interesting, 10 year old Bruichladdich added to i assume new make Cooley then matured for a further 8 years. I wonder what it tastes like also, was it a peated batch of Bruichladdich, was it a peated batch of Cooley in the mix.

bifter · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 12:04 pm Post subject:

To be honest I'm surprised it's taken this long for someone to test the market but I'm intrigued. The only Cooley whiskey I have tried is the Sainsburys TTD Dun Leire, which is cracking value and a really lovely drop.

I wonder what the SWA make of it!
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albo · Master Of Malts Joined: 22 Mar 2011 Posts: 1888

Id imagine teh SWA would embrace this sort of thing, it promotes their product and shows some versitility along the way

Carson · Master Of Malts Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 468

I had Connemara from Cooley which was ok, it was the no age statement i had so i would guess it was young whiskey.

I am surprised none of the established independent bottlers havet done something like this already, worth a tryat Â£30 i think

William · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 12:23 am Post subject:

I got a tasting note from Jack Teeling today, just getting a chance to post it now as i have been out all day. I added it here:
www.scotchmaltwhisky.co.uk/teelinghybridmaltwhiskey.htm

He mentioned that there was a long history of Irish-Scotch bottlings with the old Andrew A. Watt distillery having Iriscot as one in their stable of brands for many years.
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