“Teeling has won roughly 375 major awards in the past few years, including World’s Best Single Malt (for their 24-Year-Old) and World’s Best Single Pot Still for their Wonders of Wood Single Pot Still…which we discuss below.

And they’ve done it by not being afraid to experiment. “Irish whiskey is moving on from large producers. A lot of new people coming in and driving innovation,” Master Distiller Alex Chasko tells InsideHook — and Chasko being from Portland, OR, and having a craft beer background is also unusual within the industry. ”

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