The D.E.W Behind Tullamore Irish Whiskey

What I love about Irish whiskey is that it is far more than the
taste, the flavor, the bottle or the label. With many Irish
whiskeys you are sipping the product of hundreds of years of
history. Hundreds of years of stories. Stories of growth, stories
of acquisition, of mergers, of big wins and even bigger losses,
of characters unique to Ireland. Characters that have shaped not
just their businesses but the industry and indeed Ireland itself.


One such man is forever immortalized on every bottle of whiskey
that bears the word Tullamore. Many Americans I speak to about
whiskey have assumed that the DEW in tullamore refers to the
moisture found on the grass on the hills of Ireland as dawn
breaks, but closer inspection of the bottle, reveals DEW to be an
acronym, an acronym for the man that made Tullamore famous. His
name was Daniel E Williams and he was one of the characters that
changed the Irish whiskey industry forever.