GREAT NORTHERN

The Great Northern Distillery inhabits the grounds of a site rich in Alcohol history. The ground where the distillery now sits was originally the home of Great Northern Brewery, Founded in 1846, on Carrick Road in Dundalk Ireland, the Diageo owned brewery was home to the famous Harp Lager.

Diageo sold the brewery to the dynastic Whiskey Teeling family (John Teeling’s IWC), in 2015, to be redeveloped as one of Ireland’s largest independent distilleries. They are now converting the historic site into two distilleries, including Great Northern.

This is also the first distillery to be opened in Dundalk in nearly a century. When the distillery was founded it had been 95 years since the last Whiskey dripped from the stills in the area, and 120 years since brewing started on what is now the Great Northern Distillery site.

The brand new Great Northern Distillery is a three copper pot still operation, striving to revive the traditional style of Irish Whiskey distillation. 

Great Northern Distillery will operate 24 hours a day, five days a week, producing premium bulk Whiskey for the Irish and international markets. Having the capacity to produce 16 million liters of alcohol per annum, they will produce single malt, pots still and single grain Whiskeys.

This massive production output will be shared with a future sister distillery, which will have three large copper pots, that can distill 12 million bottles a year of single malt and pot still.