Midleton Sorta Common Like

johnnyskeleton

Do Midleton make a normal whiskey as opposed to this very rare stuff? Is it something only Cork people can buy, and they fool us jackeens/foreigners with the fancy stuff? Otherwise it seems like a bit of swiz, especially since they're owned by Jameson.

I bought a bottle recently to see what the fuss was, and I wasn't that impressed by it - I'd prefer a much cheaper bottle of Bushmills/Jameson.

monkeyfudge

Green Spot would be the closest affordable whiskey to it. They use the same casks that they use for Midleton.

Not easy to find though.

Brockagh

Midleton make Jameson, Powers, Paddy, Tullamore, Redbreast, Green Spot...

Traditionally, the old Cork Distillers at Midleton made Paddy, so Paddy would be their standard stuff.

Green Spot is made by Irish Distillers at Midleton for the shop Mitchell and Sons. They have shops in Kildare Street and Glasthule. The Kildare street shop is closing. You can get it in the Celtic Whskey Shop and a few other places too. Only a limited amount is made every year.

happy_acid_face

http://www.classicwhiskey.com/distilleries/midleton.htm

Some info for you...

Frankiestylee

Midleton make all the big whiskeys going?! That's gas. Is midleton the father company or has some company taken over and Midleton just happen to be one of the companies under a big umbrella?

johnnyskeleton

I thought Jameson owned Midleton rather than the other way around because they plaster their name all over Midleton bottles. But it's interesting to think that most whiskeys are made in Cork. I take it the exception to this is Bushmills?

Thanks for the info. I hate to say it, but maybe it'll make the Midleton taste better.

happy_acid_face

johnnyskeleton wrote:

I thought Jameson owned Midleton rather than the other way around because they plaster their name all over Midleton bottles.

Midleton and Jameson joined together to form The Irish Distillers Group in 1966. Probaby part of the contract to have their name on the bottle

Brockagh

The distilleries in Dublin - Powers and Jameson - closed in the mid-1970s some time after the remaining distillers joined forces (minus Bushmills). Cork Distillers, Jameson and Powers. Tullamore closed in the 1950s. The three of them build a super distillery beside the old Midleton distillery to make their whiskey. Bushmills later joined them, but kept distilling in their site in the North.

So at this stage, there were only two whiskey distilleries in the country. There once were hundreds. In fact, Irish whiskey used to be the number one selling whiskey in the world, far outstripping Scotch. Now it represents something like 5% of whisk(e)y sales.

In the 1980s, another distillery opened in the Cooley peninsula. They make a different style of whiskey - more like most scotches.

The Bushmills part of IDL (owned by Perno-Richard) was bought by Diageo last year for €200 million.

And the old Kilbeggan distillery opened again a few months ago.