The fact that there are only three distilleries in Ireland would suggest that this has always been a small-scale industry. Take time to visit the Old Jameson Distillery in Dublin or the Jameson Heritage Centre in Midleton, County Cork and another truth is immediately apparent. These are distilleries built on a grand scale. Both sites are long silent, but give a glimpse of a time when Irish whiskey rather than Scotch was the world’s favourite style.
No wonder distillers like Jameson and Power rejected the column still; the world wanted their pot-still whiskey. By the end of the 19th century, Jameson’s Bow St. plant was employing 300 people and 2 million gallons were sleeping beneath the Dublin streets. But history stepped in and five years after the formation of Irish Distillers, the Bow St. site closed. Production was switched to Power’s equally grand John’s Lane distillery for three years, before the new plant at Midleton started up in 1975.
Much the same happened in Cork Distilleries’ massive ‘Old’ Midleton distillery now (slightly confusingly) called The Jameson Heritage Centre. It’s undoubtedly impressive, but...
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