Great Northern Distillery
Owner: Irish Whisky Company Ltd.
„Having formed the Irish Whiskey Company (IWC) with his sons Jack and Stephen, as well as with former Cooley directors Jim Finn and David Hynes, Teeling has agreed to take over the Great Northern Brewery site in Dundalk when Diageo moves its brewing operations to St James Gate in September 2013.
„The Great Northern Distillery (GND) began to distil (grain whiskey)in the first of two distilleries built on the former Harp Brewery site in Dundalk, Co. Louth in July 2015. The two new distilleries adapted and extended, at a cost of €10 million, the world class brewing facilities which existed on the site which had been brewing for 120 years up to 2014.
Following the (€10m) investment by GND a 30 million bottle a year capacity three-column still grain whiskey distillery is now producing new spirit. This will be casked in oak barrels and matured in bonded warehouses for at least three years before it can be called Irish whiskey. A sister distillery on the site is being commissioned and will begin distillation by the end of August. The second distillery has three large copper pots capable of distilling 12 million bottles a year of single malt and pot still whiskey.
The site, only the third grain distillery in the country, was identified as being most suitable to house the distillery due to a range of factors. A dedicated water supply, perfect for distilling whiskey, is piped directly to the site from the Cooley Mountains. Natural gas is delivered on site. A sophisticated effluent control system feeds into the Dundalk Town sewerage system.
GND will supply a range of whiskies to the new Irish distilleries coming on stream and to the Retail Own Label and Private Label segments worldwide.
The second market for GND is Retail Own Label and Private Label whiskeys. These will be mainly entry level and value labels not of interest to most of the new distilleries. GND has the scale and the capacity to supply these markets on an international basis.
For the start there will be targeted only 20% of the production capacity in 2015.
GND is owned by the Teeling family and two former directors of Cooley Distillery, Jim Finn and David Hynes
Further Information: http://www.whiskyintelligence.com/2013/08/celtic-tiger-teeling-is-back-again-new-distillery-in-dundalk-ireland-irish-whiskey-news/
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Distillery Manager: Allan Anderson (February 2015)
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