Tullamore Dew Heritage Center

Nous avons fait escale à Tullamore pour une nuit seulement. L’attraction de la ville étant l’usine de wisky du même nom, il était impensable de partir sans y mettre les pieds.
Des visites groupés sont organisés selon les heures. Nous sommes arrivés dès l’ouverture à 9h30 mais nous avons dû attendre celle de 10h15. Pensez à les appeler la veille donc.
Nous avons eu la chance de né pas avoir eu d’autres visiteurs joins à notre groupe. Notre guide a donc été admirable en répondant gentiment à toute question, avec les difficultés de la barrière de la langue.
Tout est présenté, de la matière première (orge, maïs) aux différents étapes de développement du whisky, à travers plusieurs salles les illustrant. Vous passerez donc dans un fourneau, près d’une étuve de distillation.
Le langage est assez technique, ce qui rend la compréhension parfois très difficile, surtout quand on n’est pas du tout amateur de ce breuvage.
Mais j’ai pris un plaisir certain à m’instruire en ce lieu, à la fois moderne et qui a su garder un esprit d’autrefois.
La visite se finit par la dégustation de 3 whisky. Toute leur gamme est disponible en plus au bar (~7 €).
Si vous passez dans le coin, n’hésitez pas, ça vaut le coup. Et merci à notre guide!

Tullamore Dew is certainly worth a visit — located in the cute Irish town of Tullamore. My mate and I stopped by here last Saturday around 10:30AM and were able to immediately get into the next tour led by Amy — who was excellent. The facility is stunning — and the whiskey samples at the end are fun as well.
Once you’re done — it’s worth having a walk around the town center. Great spot — and we’re glad we made it a point to visit during our trip to Dublin.

Painfully slow for lunch — gets busy when they have coach tours in, but their system for serving people could be better. We came in at 1pm and it took 35 minutes to get our lunch — pulled pork back was nice when it eventually came.

An absolute must-​see if you’re in Tullamore. Heck, it’s still a probably-​should-​see if you’re anywhere in Ireland.
The Heritage Center is located in the heart of what appears to be a nice little town. It sits on the very same canal they used to transport the barrels, so there is a lot of history at the location. Unfortunately, they no longer distill whiskey at that specific spot due to changing times and $$, but you can still get a very thorough and informative tour.
Our tour guide, Shane, was great. I think the others in our group would agree that a very engaged and animated guide like Shane gave us that much better of an experience. It seemed to be smaller and much less commercialized than its 100 km neighbor to the west, so everyone in the group was able to ask questions and give feedback.
The tasting was of course the best part. But that’s not up to me to tell you about. Head on over and let you and your taste buds enjoy it.

Having been to Ireland and Scottland once before, I’ve been on a few different whisky tours even though I am not a whisky drinker. That being said, The Tullamore Dew Heritage Center Whisky Tour is one of the best I’ve been on– better than Jameson!
The tour starts with a quick welcome from the tour guide, then a video. After the video you walk through the tour route, stopping at different points where the tour guide or a video explains a different part of the whiskey making process. The tour is small, which allows you to ask any questions you have. Additionally everything is hands on, so you are able to feel the different grains, take a few sniffs in the smelling room, touch different equipment, and of course– try the whisky!
The whisky tasting was my boyfriend’s favorite part of the tour, lucky for him he got to drink double. Tullamore gives you 3 tastings, all their brands: ATullamore D.E.W. Irish Whiskey, Old Bonded Warehouse Release, and a 12 Year Special Reserve.
Out tour guide was awesome. He was super friendly and very funny. All in all the tour lasts just over an hour. Tour begin at the top of each hour.
The Center, which is no longer a working distillery and has a restaurant and gift shop in addition to the tour route. The gift shop is full of goodies– including the Old Bonded Warehouse Release which you can only get there. I didn’t eat at the restaurant, but it smelled great and everything looked delicious.
I would recommend this tour to anyone visiting Ireland.

I came here for the tea rooms, rather than the tour. The café was pretty busy and the service was great, all the staff are lovely and helpful– they even grabbed us a few more coffee biscuits when we batted our eyelids!
The coffee was decent, did taste like the bean dispenser needed a cleaning, but it was fine. The smell of the food around us was amazing, and we sampled a few chips which were to die for! Will definitely be back to try more of the food.
The little shop is very cute, some lovely gifts for a whiskey enthusiast or collector. The building is very beautiful.

I went in excited to see how they made whiskey in Ireland. But instead of a working distillery, this is a museum with a lot of use of flashy technology. Maybe it’s me, but I would rather see the nitty gritty of making whiskey rather than a highly commercialized video and walk-​through about it.
All that to say, the whiskey sampling was an enjoyable end. They just need to cut out the first part or put the whiskey at the beginning as the tour may be better intoxicated.