WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY 25 & 26 July 2020

311 Whiskey THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 25 & 26 JULY 2020 Dublin Whiskey Distillery Company (which became known as DWD) was a limited company formed by a consortium of seven businessmen including James Walker andWilliam Sealy, better known as printers and paper merchants. The distillery, in Jones Road, was completed in 1873 and by the 1880s was producing over 500,000 gallons of whiskey a year. The distillery was state of the art for the time with an electric turbine driven either by a wheel in the Tolka or steam engines. a big wheel in the adjoining River Tolka or by one of the plant’s steam engines. In 1891, DWD joined forces with George Roe andWilliam Jameson - to form the Dublin Distillers Company Limited (DDC). Each one of these distilleries had huge output and only used pot stills, totally ignoring the profitability and efficiency of Coffey Stills and grain whiskey, which was increasing being used by the Scots. Each member of DDC continued to produce Irish pot still whiskey under its own brand name and were therefore often in direct competition to each other. WorldWar I, Irish Independence, the Civil War and American Prohibition were to deal deadly blows to all three of these distilleries which had an overproduction capacity for their ever diminishing markets. It is likely that the Jones Road Distillery stopped full time distilling in 1926, however it appears that they may have continued distilling irregularly until 1945. The last known whiskey from Jones Road was a bottling of a whiskey distilled in 1942. An apartment complex, named The Distillery is on the site and incorporates some of the original buildings. Estimate €20000-€30000 (approx £18,180-£27,270) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 674