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“It makes me very proud to
be able to bring something uniquely Dublin back to the fabric of Dublin
society.” Jack Teeling,
founder of Teeling Whiskey.
If Dublin was
the epicentre of distilling in Ireland during Irish whiskey’s golden era, then
the Liberties area was the epicentre of distilling in Dublin. George Roe’s
Thomas Street operation and William Jameson & Co’s Marrowbone Lane were at
one stage the two biggest distilleries in the capital, with the John Power
& Son’s John’s Lane Distillery not far behind. Between them, they occupied over
36 acres of the bustling area outside the old city walls.
By the 1920s,
the first two had disappeared, with Power’s bowing out and moving to Cork in
the 1970s. For around 40 years, not a drop of whiskey was distilled near the
banks of the River Liffey, until Stephen and Jack Teeling woke the Spirit of
Dublin on Newmarket Square.
The sons of
John Teeling, founder of the Cooley Distillery, they already had valuable experience
of the industry. In fact, the family name is embedded in Dublin distilling
since 1782, when Walter Teeling set up a craft distillery on Marrowbone Lane.
Their
background meant they were able to secure some superb mature whiskey stock to
bottle and brand until their own Dublin spirit has rested sufficiently in oak
casks.
Former
Kilbeggan distiller, Alex Chasko, is responsible for fashioning Teeling whiskey
from the three copper pot stills at the impressive new distillery. The goal is
to revive “the traditional style of Dublin whiskey distillation”. They certainly have the background to do it.
The new
facility is open for tours, and if you’re lucky, you might get to see some
whiskey making in progress.