![]() ![]() ![]() For now, the bottling is outsourced as well.Įven so, when one looks at the sparkling new facility, with everything from milling to distilling brought under one roof, one sees plenty of room for expansion. That part of producing the company’s main product will continue to be outsourced to New Midleton and Bushmills for some time to come. With its three standard and one Irish-style pot stills, Tullamore Dew is well equipped to make malt and pot still whiskey, but it as of yet has no Coffey (or column) still for making grain whiskey. Yet even later this decade, the distillery won’t be a completely independent concern. Under the law, Irish whiskey must be aged for a minimum of three years, so Tullamore Dew is at least that far away from having even one drop of the distillery’s new production go into the bottles. Production there ceased in the 1950s when the brand was bought by Powers, and moved first to Dublin and then to Midleton. The original Tullamore distillery, opened in 1827, now serves as the Tullamore Dew Visitor Center, located in the middle of town on the canal. From an engineering point of view, the Tullamore Dew’s €35m new home was one of the most challenging distillery projects of modern times. Finally, there was no suitable water source locally, so the water for the distillery is piped 14 km from the mountains. County Offlay is a notoriously boggy place, and 250,000 tons of bog had to be compressed or shifted to prepare the site on the outskirts of Tullamore for building.ĭespite the work on the bogs, piles still had to be driven to support the foundation. When William Grant & Sons, makers of Grant’s and The Balvenie, bought Tullamore Dew away from Irish Distillers in 2010, it was with the intent of bringing production of the classic brand back to its home in Tullamore, County Offlay, but that decision brought major hurdles to overcome with it. Yet amid all the new projects only one represents a true reversal of the mid-20th Century consolidation of the Irish whiskey industry, and that was the September launch of Tullamore Dew’s distillery. There is no better sight than seeing pure spirit washing around the mouth of the collection bowl and disappearing to be matured in casks knowing that it will only re-appear many years later to be enjoyed by generations of whiskey connoisseurs.Milling to distilling, all under one roofĬoming hand in hand with booming Irish whiskey sales is the rapid expansion of new distilleries, both in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Spirit Safe is the most important element in the distillation process and is used to select the finest cut of spirits. "Today we saw the heart of the distillery being put in place right between the hand crafted pot and malt stills. “The installation of the Spirit Safe marks a momentous milestone in returning whiskey production to Tullamore," said, Denise Devenny, Tullamore Distillery Process Leader. The spirit safe, which forms the 'heart' of the distillation process, was made by the Forsyth Group from Moray, Scotland, and transported 775 kilometers to the Tullamore distillery site. ![]() Tullamore DEW intends to commence work at the new distillery in September, marking the 60th anniversary of the closure of the original distillery. ![]() Tullamore DEW has announced that its new €35 million distillery is nearing completion, with the installation of a custom-made Tullamore Distillery spirit safe. ![]()
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