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Cooley Distillery is the only independent, Irish-owned whiskey distillery in Ireland, converted in 1987 from an older industrial potato ethanol plant by John Teeling. The Distillery is located on the Cooley Peninsula in, County Louth on Ireland's eastern coast.
The distillery uses only the finest Irish barley and has its own spring water source coming from the sliabh na Gloch river high up in the Cooley mountains.
Kilbeggan and Lockes whiskies, as well as Connemara single malt, Irelands only peated whiskey, Tyrconnell single malt and Greenore Irelands oldest single grain whiskey. Other products include Michael Collins single malt, and a Michael Collins blended version.
What makes Cooley's whiskey distillery distinctive is their use of small copper pot stills with very large necks that causes the spirits to take 50 percent longer to pass through. This, the distillers believe, results in a more refined product. In addition, many Cooley brand whiskeys are distilled only twice as opposed to the more common Irish method of distilling the spirits thrice. This gives Cooleys products much more flavor than most irish whiskies. The whiskies are still matured in Granite warehouses over 200 years old in Kilbeggan Distillery ensuring that the whiskies are still as smooth as good irish whiskies should be.
Awards
Cooley's products have won over 100 awards in the past ten years. Including gold medals at all the top spirit competitions.
Cooley was the first Irish distillery awarded for outstanding contribution to the spirits industry in the International Wine and Spirit Competition.
Whisky critic Jim Murray named Tyrconnell Madeira Finish best Irish whiskey 2008 in his Whisky Bible.[1]
Kilbeggan 15 Years Old was voted World's Best Irish Blended Whisky in the 2008 World Whiskies Awards by Whisky Magazine.[2]
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Products
Single Grain
Blended
Peated
Other Brands
- Michael Collins exclusively for Sidney Frank Importing
- Eblana
53°59′50″N 6°12′21″W / 53.997276°N 6.205902°W
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