Episode 429: June 16, 2013

When Beam acquired Ireland’s Cooley Whiskey at the end of 2011, Cooley Managing Director Jack Teeling had the chance to stay on at the company his father founded in 1987. However, the idea of being a small fish in a big corporate ocean didn’t appeal to him, and he decided to start his own company. This week, the Teeling Whiskey Company released the first of a new Vintage Reserve series of Irish single malts, and Jack Teeling hopes to have Dublin’s first working distillery in nearly 40 years open by the end of 2014. We’ll hear more from Jack on this week’s WhiskyCast In-Depth. In the news, Glen Keith is out of mothballs and back in business, Speyside’s smallest distillery will get a big boost in production, and F. Paul Pacult answers the question “How do you pick between two excellent whiskies for the Best Spirit in the World title?”

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