Titanic Whiskey launches new distillery in Belfast

Published: 03 June, 2011

The makers of Titanic Whiskey have announced plans to open a distillery in Belfast within two years.

Titanic Irish Whiskey was launched last week to mark the centenary of launch of the ill-fated White Star liner at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast in 1911.

The new whiskey has been developed by the Belfast Distillery Company, and is the first new whiskey brand to emanate from Belfast since the last distillery closed 75 years ago.

The new distillery willl be the first to be developed in Belfast in over 130 years.

Derek Hardy of the Belfast Distillery Company said: "Titanic Whiskey is a tribute to the great history of ship building and whiskey distilling in Belfast and to the skill and endeavour of all those people who were involved in these great industries. Unknown to most people today, in the same era when Titanic was being launched, Belfast produced nearly half the total whiskey in Ireland."

Peter Lavery, Belfast Distillery Company's managing director and a National Lottery millionaire, said: "The Belfast Distillery Company has as its long-term objective to once again establish the city as the distilling capital of Ireland. With our future plans we intend to again provide skilled employment for people in Belfast in producing world class Irish whiskey."

Lavery has also brought his Danny Boy Irish whiskey brand into the newly-formed Belfast Distillery Company.

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