 The D.W.D. Distillery under construction c. 1872/1873 | |
| Location | Dublin, Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 53°21′47.538″N 6°14′54.0344″W / 53.36320500°N 6.248342889°W |
| Owner | Dublin Whiskey Distillery Company |
| Founded | 1872 |
| Founder | John Brannick |
| Status | Voluntarily shutdown and liquidated by management in 1941; distillery buildings redeveloped in 2003 by Tyler Owens Architects, for residential and commercial use |
| Water source | Royal Canal, onsite [1] |
| No. of stills | 4 pot stills [1] |
| Capacity | 800,000 gallons annual production & 20,000 barrels warehousing[1] |
| D.W.D. | |
| Type | Single Pot Still Whiskey[1] |
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| Status | Distillery buildings fully redeveloped in 2003 for residential and office use |
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The Dublin Whiskey Distillery Company Jones Road Distillery also known as the D.W.D. Distillery, Jones Road, or just Jones Road Distillery, was one of the six great Irish whiskey distilleries of Dublin city visited and documented by Alfred Barnard in his seminal 1887 publication "The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom".[1] It was located on the north side of the city on the banks of the river Tolka, approximately a mile north of the city centre. The distillery was built by the Dublin Whiskey Distillery Company Ltd and the Irish whiskey produced sold around the world under the brand name D.W.D.[2]
Construction began on 22 July 1872, under the supervision of founder John Brannick, and exactly one year later on the 22 July 1873, D.W.D.'s first mash was produced.[1] Distillation continued up until 1941.[3] During the intervening 70 years, D.W.D. became a renowned Irish whiskey brand and by 1941 D.W.D. was a significant and profitable enterprise with substantial maturing stocks and distilling assets.[3] D.W.D. was broken up and the assets sold between 1941 and 1946, creating lasting controversy over the conditions under which the government of Ireland allowed the closure and liquidation to happen.
D.W.D. was the last of Dublin's great distilleries to be built,[4] and along with the other five made Dublin at the end of the 19th century a global whiskey distilling powerhouse. As of 2017[update], of the six great Dublin distilleries profiled by Alfred Barnard, the D.W.D. distillery buildings, and those of Jameson located in Smithfield Dublin, are the only ones which remain standing.
- ^ a b c d e f Barnard, Alfred (1887). The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom. London: The Proprietors of "Harper's Weekly Gazette".
- ^ Spencer Blackett, The Industries of Dublin: Historical, Statistical, Biographical (1887), p. 48-49.
- ^ a b Irish Independent (October 22nd, 1941).
- ^ "Jones' Road Distillery (D.W.D.) - Dublin, 1873 – c. 1945". The Ireland Whiskey Trail. Retrieved 18 August 2017.