Midleton Distillery

Barry Crockett followed his father, Max Crockett, as master distiller in 1981.^6,7 In June 1988 Pernod Ricard bought Irish Distillers as a white knight, a friendly buyer, after Grand Metropolitan, Allied-Lyons and Guinness tried a hostile takeover.^1,3,5

In September 2013 Irish Distillers opened the Garden Stillhouse, with three 75,000-litre pot stills built identical to the original four, to double capacity to 64 million litres of alcohol.^2,8 It added a brewhouse mashing malted and unmalted barley through mash filters, nine fermenters and a column stillhouse, freeing capacity for single pot still whiskies such as Redbreast.^2,8 In 2013 Barry Crockett retired, Brian Nation became master distiller, and the original stillhouse was renamed the Barry Crockett Stillhouse.^6,7,9 In September 2015 a microdistillery began work in the Old Midleton Distillery's buildings, with a small wash still, feints still and spirit still.^10,11 It can make up to 400 casks a year, for training, visitor tours, and trying new and old styles of Irish whiskey.^10,11 In January 2017 three more 75,000-litre pot stills arrived, to double the Garden Stillhouse's pot stills from three to six.¹² Irish Distillers then said all its barley came from farms within 100 miles, and €100 million had gone on maturing warehouses at nearby Dungourney since 2012.¹²

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