John Locke & Co Ltd Distillery Museum open day (10/9/2011) – Locke’s Whiskey Kilbeggan chimney stack
The Locke’s Distillery chimney stack is one of the most visible structures in Kilbeggan and was built during the 1880’s for their new steam engine boiler room. Notice the different coloured bricks used in the construction of this chimney – yellow brick lower section and red brick for the upper section.
John Locke’s distillery at Kilbeggan in County Westmeath is a working industrial heritage museum set up and run by local volunteers of the Kilbeggan Preservation and Development Association Ltd since 1982. In 1987 the site was bought by Cooley’s Distillery and in 2010 also secured the lease for the visitor’s centre there. To celebrate their one-millionth visitor, Locke’s Distillery Museum held a free open-day on 10th September 2011 which was well attended and a great success. Incidentally, the one-millionth visitor came from Germany.
Locke’s Distillery produces pure Pot Still Irish whiskey as well as having some 40,000 sq. ft. of storage space at Kilbeggan, also used for the storage and maturation of whiskey produced by Cooleys. Kilbeggan is also unique in having a 180 year old licensed pot still with a capacity to produce 25,000 cases a year of pot-still whiskey, most of it going to export. Since 2010 Kilbeggan distillery has also introduced its own full milling, mashing, fermentation and distillation processes carried out using more traditional methods.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilbeggan_Distillery (A history of Kilbeggan distillery - founded 1757, owned by Matthias McManus from 1798, by John Locke from 1843 and closed 1957).
www.classicwhiskey.com/distilleries/lockes.htm (Locke’s Distillery museum - since its closure in 1957, the buildings and machinery there gradually fell into a state of disrepair as well as being plundered for scrap metal. In 1982 a restoration project began and has since then has been ongoing. Fortunately, most of the distillery equipment and machinery survived and if not for the restoration project, it would all certainly have been lost by now.)
www.advertiser.ie/mullingar/article/43620 (Mullingar Advertiser newspaper article - one millionth visitor to Locke’s Distillery Museum celebrations).
John Locke & Co Ltd Distillery Museum open day (10/9/2011) – Locke’s Whiskey Kilbeggan chimney stack
The Locke’s Distillery chimney stack is one of the most visible structures in Kilbeggan and was built during the 1880’s for their new steam engine boiler room. Notice the different coloured bricks used in the construction of this chimney – yellow brick lower section and red brick for the upper section.
John Locke’s distillery at Kilbeggan in County Westmeath is a working industrial heritage museum set up and run by local volunteers of the Kilbeggan Preservation and Development Association Ltd since 1982. In 1987 the site was bought by Cooley’s Distillery and in 2010 also secured the lease for the visitor’s centre there. To celebrate their one-millionth visitor, Locke’s Distillery Museum held a free open-day on 10th September 2011 which was well attended and a great success. Incidentally, the one-millionth visitor came from Germany.
Locke’s Distillery produces pure Pot Still Irish whiskey as well as having some 40,000 sq. ft. of storage space at Kilbeggan, also used for the storage and maturation of whiskey produced by Cooleys. Kilbeggan is also unique in having a 180 year old licensed pot still with a capacity to produce 25,000 cases a year of pot-still whiskey, most of it going to export. Since 2010 Kilbeggan distillery has also introduced its own full milling, mashing, fermentation and distillation processes carried out using more traditional methods.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilbeggan_Distillery (A history of Kilbeggan distillery - founded 1757, owned by Matthias McManus from 1798, by John Locke from 1843 and closed 1957).
www.classicwhiskey.com/distilleries/lockes.htm (Locke’s Distillery museum - since its closure in 1957, the buildings and machinery there gradually fell into a state of disrepair as well as being plundered for scrap metal. In 1982 a restoration project began and has since then has been ongoing. Fortunately, most of the distillery equipment and machinery survived and if not for the restoration project, it would all certainly have been lost by now.)
www.advertiser.ie/mullingar/article/43620 (Mullingar Advertiser newspaper article - one millionth visitor to Locke’s Distillery Museum celebrations).