Innovative Irish Whiskey ‘Dram in a Can’ Wins Major Followers in Great Britain
Pioneering Dram in a Can Irish whiskey from Two Stacks in Newry, a FoodNI
member, is rolling out nationwide across Tesco Great Britain, bringing the small
Co Down company’s innovative Irish whiskey format to a much wider audience.
Alongside this, the company’s original Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey has just
launched in Tesco Northern Ireland, bringing another distinctive whiskey
expression from the Two Stack’s range to retail shelves in Northern Ireland and
beyond.
Shane McCarthy, managing director of Two Stacks, now a leading whiskey
bonder, bottler and canner of a range of spirits also such as whiskey and Irish
cream liqueur, says: “These immensely encouraging launches represent two
sides of what we’re building at Two Stacks, challenging convention through
innovative packaging formats while continuing to showcase the quality,
character and heritage of traditional Irish whiskey distilling”.
“We are indebted to Tesco’s Michael Crealey for his support with the Tesco NI
listing and for helping open the door to Tesco GB, an immensely important
development for our business. It’s great to see the brand continuing to grow on
shelf especially in markets outside Northern Ireland,” he adds.
Two Stacks has won widespread acclaim for its development of an Irish canned
whiskey, Dram in a Can, that makes it much easier and more convenient to
enjoy the spirit, single malt and blended, particularly on the road. The
innovative development, the world’s first-ever canned whiskey, has since won
significant business in international markets including the highly competitive US
marketplace, the biggest global destination for Irish whiskeys.
Two Stacks, founded by Shane with longstanding business friends Liam Brogan
and Donal MacLynn in 2020 and has also won business at airports across the
UK from a collaboration with Avolta’s World Duty Free stores.
The partnership marks another step in the Co Down whiskey maker’s expansion
into travel retail, offering unique and complex cask-strength whiskeys and
carefully crafted peated malts to UK travellers.
The multi-award-winning small company blends and bottles a range of whiskeys
from Irish distilleries including from Killowen, located near Rostrevor in the
Mournes, descrtibed as the smallest distillery in Ireland and owned by master
distiller Brendan Carty, who is respected as one of the most innovative
producers in the industry.
