#TULLAMORE DISTILLERY IRELAND FULL#

In 2014 there will be two warehouses to hold 55,000 casks. 25 people will be employed at the distillery. The reborn Tullamore distillery will produce about 1.84 million litres of alcohol or 1.5 million nine-liter-cases annually when it is finished.

#TULLAMORE DISTILLERY IRELAND FULL#

About €35 million were invested in the new state-of-the art distillery which is situated on a 58 acre site at Clonmich on the outskirts of Tullamore.īy breaking a ceremonial cask full of Tullamore whiskey with William Grant & Sons Global CEO Stella David the construction phase of the new grain and malt distillery started. Production started in autumn 2014 and brought back distilling to Tullamore after the original distillery had to close in 1954. It is very popular in Germany, Sweden and the Czech Republic but will also grow in the four big markets U.S.A., France, Britain and Ireland where Tullamore whiskey is under-represented. It is the world‘s second largest Irish whiskey brand (behind the blend John Jameson) with growing figures by over 20% annually. The distributor changed from Beam to Campari from July 2012. 1 among the Irish whiskeys with a market share of 65.3%. Tullamore Dew, which is currently growing by more than 15 per cent a year, by almost doubling worldwide sales to just around 1 000,000 cases in 2015. On September 12th, 2013 the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney officially ‘turned the sod’ on the new Tullamore pot still whiskey and malt whiskey distillery being built by William Grant & Sons Ltd.“ See official briefing document of the proposed and now built distillery: The development started in April 2013 and production began in autumn 2014. The new Tullamore distillery was built at Ballard and Clonminch in Tullamore‘s north. Offaly Council gave green light for the planners on December 18th, 2012.

Cork, Tullmore Malt came also from Cooley Distillery in Co. was produced by Midleton Distilleries in Co. In 2010 they had aquired the brand Tullamore D.E.W. William Grant & Sons Ltd., announced on March 28th, 2012 it will invest in a new pot still whiskey and malt whiskey distillery in Tullamore, bringing whiskey production back to the town for the first time since the original distillery closed in 1954.

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