Cooley Distillery
| Cooley Distillery | |
|---|---|
| country | Ireland |
| region | County Louth |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 59 '50.2 " N , 6 ° 12' 21.3" W |
| Type | Blended and single malt |
| status | active |
| owner | Cooley Distillery PLC |
| Founded | 1987 |
| founder | John Teeling |
| Website | www.cooleywhiskey.com |
The Cooley Distillery was until December 2011 as the only independent whiskey - distillery in Ireland . It was founded in 1987 by John Teeling in Riverstown .
history
John Teeling bought a former state-owned potato distillery on the Cooley Peninsula on the east coast of Ireland. In less than two years this was converted into a distillery with two stills - one still using the pot still method , the other using the patent still method .
In 1988 Willie McCarter, a fellow Teelings student at Harvard , merged his Andrew A. Watt Distillery (founded in 1762, County Derry , Northern Ireland) with Cooley. Cooley then bought the John Locke and Co. (founded 1757, Kilbeggan ) brand , possibly the oldest licensed distillery in the world. The fires are stored at their location to ripen.
In 1998, Cooley received the trophy of the International Wine and Spirit Competition (IWSC) for outstanding achievements. Reason: “This award to Cooley is a sign that the quality of Irish whiskey is really recognized. Founded in 1987 in County Louth , the distillery Cooley produces a range of blended and single malt whiskeys which have built an impressive reputation and prompted the judges to award the trophy to a distillery for the first time in the history of the competition. "
In December 2011, the distillery was bought by Jim Beam for US $ 95 million. Jim Beam, in turn, was bought by the Japanese beverage company Suntory in 2014. Since then, Cooley's brands have also been part of the portfolio of the newly created Beam Suntory group .
Brands
- Connemara (Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey)
- The Tyrconnell
- Avoca (released in 1994 for Dunnes department store chain )
- Single Malt & Grain
- Locke's 8 year old single malt Irish whiskey
- Greenore Single Grain Irish Whiskey
- Blended whiskey
- Kilbeggan Irish Whiskey
- Locke's Premium Blend Irish Whiskey
- Millars Special Reserve Irish Whiskey
- Dundalgan Irish Whiskey (Lidl)
- O'Hara (for Intermarché )
- 2 Gingers (since 2011 for the US market)
- Specialty Products
- Inishowen Peated Irish Whiskey
- Eblana Irish Liqueur
- Limited editions
- Tyrconnell Single Malt Limited Edition (1 of 5000 specially numbered bottles)
- Lockes Malt Limited Edition (1 of 5000 individually numbered bottles)
- Lockes Rare Malt (1000 bottles)
Awards
- 1998: The IWSC Trophy for Achievement
- Several gold, silver and bronze medals from the IWSC since 1995
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Homepage of the Cooley Distillery
- ↑ Japanese buy Jim Beam Die Welt January 13, 2014
- ↑ Japan's Suntory to buy US spirits maker Beam for $ 13.6 billion cash Reuters, January 14, 2014, accessed March 18, 2014
- ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/business-27233882 (accessed on 2020-03-29)
- ^ Gilbert Delos: Les Whiskeys du Monde. Translation from French: Karin-Jutta Hofmann: Whiskey from all over the world. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-442-7 , p. 122.
- ^ Gilbert Delos: Les Whiskeys du Monde. Translation from French: Karin-Jutta Hofmann: Whiskey from all over the world. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-442-7 , p. 123.
- ↑ Gabányi, S .: Schumann's Whisk (e) y Lexicon. ZS publishing house. 2015: p. 9
- ↑ https://www.2gingerswhiskey.com/ (Retrieved on 2020-03-29)