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Teeling
Whiskey Distillery officially opens its
doors today in Dublin.
The
new Teeling Whiskey Distillery located
at The Liberties, Dublin officially
opened its doors for the first time
today. The €10 million distillery is the
first whiskey distillery in the Irish
capital in over 125 years and the only
fully operational distillery in the city
at present.
Irish whiskey fans will be pleased to
hear that they can see, smell and
experience the new distillery for
themselves first hand as the new fully
functioning distillery will be welcoming
visitors to its state-of-the-art visitor
centre which will host whiskey tasting
tours, a café, a bar, a private event
space for hire and a gift shop.
The visitor centre will officially start
taking paying visitors this coming
Saturday, 13th June and will be open
from 9.30am - 5.30pm 7 days a week. The
tour will involve seeing all the
elements involved in whiskey production
from barley to milling to fermentation
right up to 3 custom made copper pot
stills. All tours will receive a measure
of Teeling whiskey with an accompanying
pre-prohibition style cocktail. There
are a variety of options for whiskey
tasting experiences involving an upgrade
to a Teeling Trinity tasting or taste
the award winning range of Teeling
Single Malts. Visitors can enjoy a
second drink at the ‘Bang Bang Bar’ or
purchase distillery exclusive items in
the gift shop. There is also a café
available where people can taste locally
roasted 3FE coffee or relax with some
freshly baked pastries or sandwiches.
The Teeling Whiskey Company which was
founded by Jack Teeling in 2012, TWC was
set up to revive his family-old
trademark of Irish whiskey and bring
distilling back to Dublin, where Walter
Teeling had a distillery on Marrowbone
Lane in the 18th century. The Teeling
Whiskey Company is run by Jack together
with his brother Stephen.
The Teeling Whiskey Company has come a
long way very quickly since 2012 and the
opening of this new distillery means
that TWC has complete control of all
aspects of its whiskey production, from
grain to bottle, so that it can truly
lead the category in terms of innovation
and build on the company’s ever growing
reputation of producing some of the
world’s best whiskeys. Most recently,
Teeling Single Malt was named ‘World’s
Best’ at the 2015 World Whiskies Awards
and Teeing Small Batch was awarded ‘Best
Blended Irish Whiskey’ at the San
Francisco World Spirits Competition.
Irish whiskey is currently experiencing
a surge in popularity both at home and
abroad and is the fastest growing
spirits category in the world. Irish
whiskey is expected to grow by +60%
between 2014 and 2019 and it is
estimated that 96m bottles of Irish
whiskey will be sold globally by 2016.
Jack Teeling, founder and managing
director of the Teeling Whiskey Company
commented: "Today is a momentous day in
the history of our company and something
we have been working towards for the
last three years. We are delighted to
officially open our brand new distillery
and bring back the tradition of
distilling to Dublin. We are also
looking forward to opening our doors to
our first official visitors this weekend
and we’re confident that our distillery
will become a must-visit destination for
tourists to Dublin from all over the
world."
You will find the complete range of
Irish whiskey including
Teeling whiskey available from
The Whisky Exchange
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