Cooley Whiskey

Cooley Irsk Single Malt Whiskey

Owner:                          Region/district:                          Cooley Distillery plc                              Ireland (County Louth)

Founded:    Status:        Capacity:

1987            Active         3 250 000 litres

Address: Riverstown, Cooley, Co. Louth

Tel:                         website:

+353 (0)42 9376102   www.cooleywhiskey.com

History:

1987 – John Teeling purchases Ceimici Teo Distillery in Dundalk. Previously it has produced spirits in column stills (e. g. vodka) and is now renamed Cooley Distillery.

1988 – Willie McCarter acquires part of A. A. Watt Distillery and the brand Tyrconnell and merges with Teeling. Teeling simultaneously buys decommissioned Locke’s Kilbeggan Distillery.

1989 – A pair of pot stills is installed for production of both malt and grain whiskey.

1992 – Locke’s Single Malt, without age statement, is launched as the first single malt from the distillery. Cooley encounters financial troubles and and stops production. 

1995 – Finances improve and production resumes.

1996 – Connemara is launched.

2000 – Locke’s 8 year old single malt is launched.

2003 – The Connemara 12 year old is launched.

2006 – Five Connemara Single Casks from 1992 are released.

2007 – Kilbeggan distillery is reopened.

2009 – New packaging for the Connemara range and release of the first in The Small Batch Collection.

2010 – The heavily peated Connemara Turf Mor is released.

2011 – Connemara Bog Oak is released.

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