Domain: Cooley

In 1987, entrepreneur John Teeling bought a former state distillery named Ceimici Teoranta and turned it into a new distillery named Cooley, whose spirit was produced in two separate ways. One used the column still already on site to create a grain whiskey for lighter blends. The second, set up two years later, added a pot still to produce a single malt. Another unusual feature of the Cooley distillery is its preference for double distillation over the triple distillation more commonly found among Irish whiskeys. Teeling later bought the former Kilbeggan distillery to stock Cooley’’s large volumes of spirits. In 2007, the Kilbeggan distillery also began producing whiskey again. Finally, in 2011, Jim Beam bought Cooley, before in turn being bought by Suntory in 2014.