Whisky production and entrepreneurship were in the Teeling genes as early as 1782, when Walter Teeling set up a small artisanal distillery in Dublin. However, the distillery was founded in 2012 by Jack and Stephen Teeling, whose father had founded Cooley Distillery in 1987. The brand's symbol, a palm tree emerging from a pot, symbolizes the re-establishment of the Teeling whiskey brand.