Irish Explorers Endurance Single Malt Irish Whiskey

Irish Explorers Endurance Single Malt Irish Whiskey 40%-ABV 700ml bottles.

About Irish Explorers Endurance  / Great Northern Distillery:

The Great Northern Distillery is a private company in Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland, founded by John Teeling in 2015 on the site of the former Great Northern Brewery. It is the largest independent distillery in Ireland and primarily produces whiskey and other spirits for private label, contract, and retail own-label brands, with a small portion sold under its own name like Burke's Irish Whiskey. The distillery uses both pot and column stills to produce a wide range of spirits, including grain, pot still, and various types of malt whiskey.

About the distillery

• Ownership: Founded by John Teeling and his sons, who previously established the Cooley Distillery and rebuilt the Kilbeggan Distillery.
• Location: Dundalk, Co. Louth, on the site of the former Great Northern Brewery which famously produced Harp Lager.
• Operational since: 2015, with distilling beginning on July 31, 2015.
• Capacity: The distillery has a capacity of over 16 million liters annually, making it one of the largest in Ireland.

Production and products

• Stills: Operates both pot stills and column stills, allowing for the creation of diverse spirits.
• Spirit types: Produces a wide variety of Irish whiskey, including single malt, pot still, grain, and peated malt whiskeys, as well as gin.
• Primary market: Most of its production is sold in bulk to other companies under their own brand names (private labels and contract distilling).
• Own brands: While it primarily works with other brands, it also produces its own whiskeys, such as the Burke's range and the An Fear Grinn brand.

Our Story

The Great Northern Distillery is the largest independent distillery in Ireland and has been operational since 2015.
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We work globally to produce bulk whiskey batches, private-label products, contract-distilled spirits and retail own-brand partnerships.
Our primary markets include bulk private labels, contract distilling, retail own-label production and supplying whiskey and spirits to smaller distilleries in both Irish and international markets.
The distillery operates two distinctive stills—pot stills and column stills—which produce a diverse range of Irish whiskey spirits, including grain, triple malt, double malt, peated malt and pot still whiskey. With a current capacity of 16 million litres of whiskey spirit, the distillery also operates a small-scale gin still. The first 3-year-old matured Irish whiskey produced at the distillery came of age in 2018.
Currently, the Irish whiskey market is the fastest-growing brown spirit category in the world. The Great Northern Distillery is a private company whose owners previously established the Cooley Distillery and rebuilt the Kilbeggan Distillery before selling them in 2012.

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