Whisky 101: Interview with Stephan Teeling - Teeling

The Teeling Family
Whiskey making and entrepreneurship have been in the Teeling genes since as far back as 1782 when Walter Teeling set up a small craft distillery on Marrowbone Lane in Dublin city. Since 2012, Jack and Stephen Teeling, the latest generation of Teeling Whiskey makers, have been putting their own mark on Irish whiskey and came full circle in 2015 when they proudly opened the new Teeling Whiskey Distillery just down the road from where the original family distillery once stood. The Teeling Whiskey Distillery today is the first new distillery in Dublin for over 125 years.

Our Story
We are situated just a stone’s throw from our ancestral distillery in the Golden Triangle, the historic distilling district of the city. Since opening our doors in 2015 our fully guided tours have offered visitors the chance to explore a fully operational distillery and experience the complete whiskey-making process from milling and mashing to the maturation of our award-winning Irish whiskey.

Our Craft
Here at Teeling Whiskey, we are renowned for our vision of doing things differently. Our whiskeys embody this unconventional spirit, with innovation at the core of everything we do. For us, it’s what’s inside the bottle that counts – we let the liquid do the talking, and our liquid has plenty to say.

The delicate base of Irish whiskey is the perfect canvas upon which to layer flavour and character. Varying the time, style and number of barrels used during the maturation process adds to the subtlety and complexity of flavour we pride ourselves on. Now that we have our own Dublin distilled spirit coming of age, our ingenuity is the only limitation to the unique styles and expressions we can craft in the future.

After putting all this care and attention to what goes into our whiskey, we don’t like to take anything out. We don’t chill filter our whiskey prior to bottling, letting us leave as much of the body, character and richness in the bottle as possible. We bring our whiskey from cask strength to our signature ABV of 46%, allowing us to bottle with no chill filtration, maintaining the true natural character of all Teeling Whiskeys.