Brown-Forman pauses production at Slane Irish whiskey distillery

Brown-Forman has paused accumulation astatine its Slane Irish Whiskey distillery successful County Meath, Ireland.

When approached by Just Drinks connected the matter, Slane said: "The intermission is simply a planned accommodation to our operational schedules.

"Demand readying and accumulation forecasting are captious parts of our concern and it is modular signifier to set accumulation to align with marketplace conditions.

"We person a robust proviso of maturing whiskey, ensuring determination volition beryllium nary interruption successful the availability of Slane for our consumers worldwide."

Just Drinks has asked the Irish whiskey shaper and its genitor Brown-Forman to corroborate erstwhile the tract is expected to resume accumulation and whether immoderate jobs are to beryllium chopped arsenic a effect of the move.

A LinkedIn station from Slane worker Alan Buckley, shared by the Robb Report, suggests that accumulation is being paused for respective years.

"Following Brown-Forman's caller determination to intermission accumulation astatine Slane Distillery for the adjacent fig of years, my relation is unluckily being made redundant," Buckley said.

Slane was founded successful 2009 by begetter and lad Henry and Alex Conyngham. Brown-Forman past signed a woody to bargain Slane, past known arsenic Slane Castle Irish Whiskey, successful 2015.

The distillery is champion known for its Triple Casked blended Irish whiskey.

Bord Bia figures showed the worth of Irish whiskey export income fell 5% past twelvemonth amid a pugnacious trading clime for the category, particularly successful the US.

Exports were valued astatine €930m ($1.08bn) successful 2025 and accounted for 45% of full drinks shipments from the country, according to information issued by the Irish food-and-drinks authorities agency.

“The planetary whiskey marketplace faced a challenging year, particularly successful the US, wherever Irish whiskey exports declined by 5%,” Bord Bia said successful its study astatine the time.

"Stocks were built up successful precocious 2024 and the archetypal fractional of 2025 successful anticipation of tariffs, which were implemented successful August 2025. This situation, combined with a 12% devaluation of the US dollar, made trading into the US challenging arsenic the twelvemonth progressed.”

In Brown-Forman's full-year results, issued successful March, the company's whiskey nett income (which encompass "all whiskey spirits and whiskey-based flavored liqueurs") grew 2% connected a reported ground and 1% organically twelvemonth connected year.

When it came to volumes, the group's whiskey depletions were down 1% to 16.2 cardinal nine-litre cases portion shipments were up 1% astatine 16.3 cardinal nine-litre cases.

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