Best Alcoholic Beverage Products Companies in Ireland
The 50 best Alcoholic Beverage Products companies in Ireland in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Waterford Whisky.
Ranked: Best Alcoholic Beverage Products companies in Ireland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterford Whisky Internet first brand of whisky | $48M | 41 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2019 | ShopifyCart FunctionalityWordPress+38 | — |
| 2 | POWERSCOURT DISTILLERY Brand of Irish whiskey | $33M | 37 mo ago | Funding Raised | Ashley Gardiner Co-Founder & Director | 2016 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+29 | 1 expansion |
| 3 | Great Northern Distillery Manufactures and supplies alcoholic beverages | $9M | 117 mo ago | Series A | Jim Finn Co-Founder | 2014 | WebflowVimeocore-js+12 | — |
| 4 | Glendalough Distillery Multi-category spirits company | $6M | 119 mo ago | Series A | Glendalough Distillery Co-Founder | 2012 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVisa+24 | — |
| 5 | Rye River Brewing Company Beer brand | $4M | 36 mo ago | Series A | Tom Cronin Founder & MD | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | 1 job opening |
| 6 | Connacht Whiskey Brand of whiskey | $3M | 140 mo ago | Series A | David Stapleton Founder | 2014 | Cart FunctionalityWooCommerceWordPress+28 | — |
| 7 | Sliabh Liag Distillers Brand of wine | $3M | 71 mo ago | Seed | Moira Doherty Founder | 2015 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | 2 awards |
| 8 | Carlow Craft Brewery Premium beer brand | $3M | 111 mo ago | Series B | Seamus Hara Founder & CEO | 1996 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | — |
| 9 | Wicklow Wolf Brewing Company Premium beer brand | $3M | 117 mo ago | Seed | Quincey Fennelly Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | WordPress Block EditorCart FunctionalityWooCommerce+32 | — |
| 10 | LYQD Operator of a digital exchange for cask whiskey transactions | $1M | 15 mo ago | Seed | Ernest Cantillon Co-Founder | 2023 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — |
| 11 | Wilde Irish Gin Brand offering cocktail products | $662K | 14 mo ago | Seed | Conor Quinn Founder / President | 2017 | — | — |
| 12 | The Muff Liquor Company Brand of vodka | $246K | 82 mo ago | Seed | — | 2017 | — | 1 award |
Top 12 Alcoholic Beverage Products companies in Ireland
#1
Seed · Cork, County Cork · founded 2023$1.4Mraised▾
Operator of a digital exchange for cask whiskey transactions. The platform facilitates the buying, selling, and management of whiskey casks. It provides a marketplace for collectors, investors, and distilleries to connect and trade. The platform offers features for browsing, listing, and evaluating casks based on various criteria. It aims to provide a secure and transparent environment for cask whiskey transactions.
- Apr 2025Seed$1.4M
#2
Seed · Dublin, Leinster · founded 2017$661.5Kraised▾
Producer of gins intended to provide a blend of botanicals with a delicious mouthfeel and delightfully rogue flavor. The company produces gins that are distilled by hand in small batches with two copper pot stills with an unexpected act of extraordinary legacy, irreverent, courageous, subversive, and beautiful, enabling consumers to experience better quality gin drinks at their leisure.
- May 2025Seed$390K
- Jun 2022Seed$271.5K
#3
Funding Raised · Enniskerry, County Wicklow · founded 2016 · 22 employees$33.5Mraised▾
Brand of Irish whiskey
- Jun 2023Conventional Debt$27.4M
- May 2021Conventional Debt$6.1M
#4
Funding Raised · Waterford, Munster · founded 2019 · 15 employees$47.9Mraised▾
Internet first brand of whisky. The product catalog includes whiskey of various flavors red apple, milk chocolate, dried flowers, butter cream, and more. The company claims that the product is organic and biodynamic.
- Mar 2023Conventional Debt$47.9M
#5
Series A · Celbridge, Leinster · founded 2013 · 35 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Beer brand
- Jul 2023Series A$3.8M
- 2016Conventional Debt—
#6
Series A · Dundalk, County Louth · founded 2014 · 29 employees$8.8Mraised▾
The Great Northern Distillery manufactures and supplies alcoholic beverages. Its product offerings include single malts, pot still whiskey, grain whiskey, Poitin, and Burke's Irish whiskey. Its production process includes grain sourcing, milling, mashing, fermentation, distilling, casking, and maturation.
- Oct 2016Series A$5.4M
- 2014Series A$3.3M
#7
Seed · Donegal, County Donegal · founded 2015 · 22 employees$3Mraised▾
Brand of wine
- Aug 2020Seed$3M
#8
Series A · Wicklow, County Wicklow · founded 2012$6.1Mraised▾
Glendalough Distillery manufactures and sells spirits across categories whiskey, gin, cocktails, and poitin. Its major markets are Ireland, UK and Germany.
- Aug 2016Series A$6.1M
#9
Series B · Muine Bheag, County Carlow · founded 1996 · 31 employees$2.8Mraised▾
Carlow Brewing producees and supplies craft beers. The company offers a range of craft beers including traditional stouts, ales and wheat beers that are available in over 25 countries around the world.
#10
Seed · Bray, County Wicklow · founded 2013 · 20 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Operator of a craft brewing company intended to offer beer and other alcoholic beverages. The company's beverages are prepared from natural ingredients that are imported from different parts of the world and are packaged in safe and hygienic containers, enabling customers to get affordable and delicious handcrafted beer for their enjoyment.
- Oct 2016Seed$2.2M
- Feb 2016Angel$359.4K
#11
Series A · Mayo, County Mayo · founded 2014$3Mraised▾
Brand of whiskey
- Nov 2014Series A$3M
- Nov 2014Conventional Debt—
#12
Seed · Donegal, County Donegal · founded 2017 · 2 employees$246Kraised▾
Brand of vodka
- Sep 2019Seed$246K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Alcoholic Beverage Products coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding flat · growth rising
Common questions
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