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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 east 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.

The distillery produces Kilbeggan and Lockes whiskeys, as well as Connemara single malt, Ireland's only peated single malt whiskey, Tyrconnell single malt and Greenore, Ireland's oldest single grain whiskey. Other products include Michael Collins single malt, and a Michael Collins blended version. Cooley is the distillery that produces Origine Irish Whiskey sold in the US at Albertson Supermarkets.

What makes Cooley's whiskey distillery distinctive is their use of small copper pot stills with very large necks. These cause the spirits to take 50 percent longer to pass through, and the distillers believe that the result is 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 three times. This gives Cooley's products much more flavor than most Irish whiskeys. The whiskeys are matured in the 200 year old granite warehouses of Kilbeggan Distillery located in County Westmeath, some 60 miles away.

Contents 1 Products 1.1 Malt 1.2 Grain 1.3 Blend 1.4 Other company brands 2 References 3 Awards 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Products

Cooley produces malt, grain, and blended whiskeys, as well as producing whiskey's for other companies to brand, market and sell.

[edit] Malt

• Tyrconnell
• 8 year
• Connemara
• Inishowen

[edit] Grain

• Greenore

[edit] Blend

• Premium Blend
• Kilbeggan
• Millar's

[edit] Other company brands

• Michael Collins
• Eblana
• Origine Irish Whiskey^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] 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.^[2]

Kilbeggan 15 Years Old was voted World's Best Irish Blended Whisky in the 2008 World Whiskies Awards by Whisky Magazine.^[3]

[edit] See also

• Irish whiskey brands
• Irish Whiskey
• Midleton Distillery
• Bushmills Distillery

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Cooley distillery website

Coordinates: 53°59′50″N 6°12′21″W / 53.997276°N 6.205902°W / 53.997276; -6.205902

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