It all started with one man, James Power.
John’s Lane, James’s vision
James Power doesn’t always get the credit he deserves. As an innkeeper, he did a little distilling on the side, until the popularity of that whiskey made it much more than a side hustle. A distillery would follow at John’s Lane in 1791, just off Thomas Street in Dublin.
The extended family
By all accounts, working for POWERS was a job you hung onto tightly with both hands. Staff enjoyed beach days and away days at the family estate, and seasonal workers were given affordable room and board to keep them out of the grasp of Dublin landlords. Happy workers make incredible whiskey, so all in all, it was a good exchange.
The bold POWERS character
Over 200 years later James Power’s legacy lives on, in a triple distilled Single Pot Still Irish whiskey, made using the heart of the distillate. His visionary decision to devote his future to distilling and the pioneering spirit of the generations that followed him rocked the whiskey world.
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