J.JAMESON

1
J.JAMESON

2
J.JAMESON

• On October 5th 1740, John Jameson was born.
  Somebody believes John Jameson was Irish, but he
  was Scottish.
• The Jameson family motto is Sine Metu meaning
  Without Fear, awarded for their bravery in
  battling pirates on the high seas back in the
  1500
• Now, Ireland is reputed to be where whiskey was
  invented and whiskey from Dublin was regarded as
  the finest in the world.

3
J.JAMESON

• In the late 18th century, most whiskeys were
  distilled twice, like it is in Scotland. John
  Jameson wasnt, he went that extra step and
  insisted on triple distillation, as he found that
  it made his whiskey twice as smooth.
• He tried to distil four or five times for a
  better taste but it turned out triple
  distillation is the best. He was a hardworking
  man, he spend all that time to the making of
  whiskey.
• He was single-minded about quality he actually
  set up a Single Distillery to make his whiskey.
  This simply means that everything from the
  selection of grain and cask, to triple
  distillation and maturation, takes places in the
  one Distillery to ensure total quality control.

4
J.JAMESON

• When John Jameson a Scottish buisnessman acquired
  the Bow Street Distillery in 1780 it was
  producing about 30,000 gallons annually.
• By the turn of the century it was the second
  largest producer in Ireland and one of the
  largest in the world producing a million gallons
  annually.
• Dublin at the time was the epicentre of world
  whiskey production.Today Jameson is the third
  largest Single Distillery Whiskey in the world.

5
J.JAMESON

• The temperance movement in Ireland had an
  enormous impact domestically but the two key
  events that affected Jameson internationally were
  the Irish war of Independence and subsequent
  trade war with the British which denied Jameson
  the export markets of the Commonwealth, and
  shortly thereafter, the introduction of
  prohibition in the United States.

6
J.JAMESON

• It was also a fact that the introduction of basic
  grain whiskey production using column stills by
  the Scottish blenders in the mid 1800's enabled
  them to produce vast amounts of almost neutral
  flavoured components for blending with some malt
  whiskey.
• This enabled them to create low cost blends that
  the Irish, still using the original Pure Pot
  Still technique could not compete with.This
  differing opinion of what a true whiskey
  consisted of culminated in a legal enquiry in
  1908.
• He stretched to select personally the barley and
  casks. John Jameson opened his distillery in
  Dublin in 1780. When John Jameson established his
  whiskey distillery in Dublin, he really began to
  make his mark.

7
J.JAMESON

• From 1800, John started the tradition of giving
  all his workers nicknames. By 1810, Johns son,
  John II, had expanded the distillery to be one of
  the largest distilling companies in Ireland.
• In the late 1800s his son, John III expanded the
  business globally to make it one of the largest
  whiskeys in the world.
• However by the time his son, John IV, took over
  the distillery in the early 1900s, there wasnt
  much for him to do at all except prove the old
  adage that good things come in threes.
• Nowadays, Jameson produces the whisky at two
  distilleries the Bushmills distilleries and the
  modern Middleton complex near Cork.

8
Our vist at Jamesons