Teeling Single Grain

Jack Teeling started the whiskey company in 2012, with his brother, Stephen, joining the following year. Their father, John Teeling, had founded the first new Irish distillery in decades when he opened Cooley in 1987. Cooley—which includes the historic Kilbeggan Distillery—made whiskey for a variety of brands, including Kilbeggan, Connemara, Greenore and Tyrconnell. Beam Inc. (now Beam Suntory), the parent company of Jim Beam bourbon, purchased Cooley in 2012. Jack and Stephen were able to buy large stocks of maturing Cooley whiskey around the time of the purchase, and that is what goes into Teeling’s bottles today. The company had always planned to open its own distillery, however, and in the spring of 2015, spirit started flowing at the Teeling Distillery. Located in Dublin’s Liberties neighborhood—once a center of Irish whiskey production—Teeling became the city’s first new distillery in over a century. The facility has three pot stills making single malt and pot still whiskey, which is maturing in a warehouse outside the city. The Teeling brothers have experimented with unusual finishes and other innovations for their whiskeys, making the brand one of the most highly regarded new Irish whiskey outfits in the last few years. Whisky Advocate scores for Teeling’s whiskeys, which include the core Small Batch, Single Malt, and Single Grain, are generally high. The distillery’s latest limited-edition 24 year old single malt received 96 points in the Summer 2017 issue.

Whiskey making and entrepreneurship has been in the Teeling genes as far back as 1782, when Walter Teeling set up a small craft distillery on Marrowbone Lane in the industrial heart of Dublin City. Since 2012, Jack and Stephen Teeling, the latest generation of Teeling Whiskey makers, have been putting their own mark on Irish Whiskey and came full circle in 2015 when they proudly opened the new Teeling Whiskey Distillery just down the road from where the original family distillery once stood. The Teeling Whiskey Distillery today is the first new distillery in Dublin for over 125 years.