Brief and budget
Style · market · price · volume
Lighthouse Drinks · Cork, Ireland
Whether you are a supermarket buyer, an importer, a distributor or a brand owner, we develop, source, package and bottle authentic Irish whiskey to your own label — new brands built from scratch, or an established range taken over end to end, all from one bonded facility in Cork.
What we do
We are one of the leading private label Irish whiskey suppliers in the world, specialising in eye-catching, well-priced brands for partners across every major market.
You get the best of blended Irish whiskey alongside the finest single malt, single pot still and peated whiskeys, plus other Irish-made spirits. Our brand developers work with you to craft a range that is genuinely differentiated rather than one more label in the pile.
How it works
Style · market · price · volume
Samples · blend development
In-house design · or bespoke
Glass · closures · artwork sign-off
Filled · labelled · shipped from bond
Under one roof
Blend · bottle · label · export — all from our facility at Little Island
Ready-made
Not every project needs a design agency and a six-month lead time. These are our in-house designs. Take one as it stands, change the liquid and the age statement, or use it as the starting point for something of your own.
Design a label
Answer a few quick questions, then describe the label you imagine — in plain English — and our AI designs a concept in seconds. Leave your email and we will send it over and take it from there. It is a starting point for a conversation, not a finished design.
Describe your label, then hit Generate.
Your concept will appear here.
Designing your label…
this takes about 15 seconds
AI concept — a starting point, not a finished or compliance-checked label.
Step 1 of 2 · A few quick questions
Liquid
The hard part of a private label programme is rarely the label. It is getting consistent liquid, in the style you sold in, at the volume you need, on the date you promised it. Preferred blends, malts and pot stills have not been easy to come by through the category’s growth.
We carry our own inventory across a wide range of cask types and hold long-standing supply relationships with distilleries across Ireland — and we go well beyond whiskey, with gin, vodka and a growing range of liqueurs from the same site. We can put samples in front of you quickly and repeat the same liquid on your second run and your tenth.
And when what you want does not exist yet, we build it. Our team develops new products and bespoke recipes end to end — flavour brief, sampling and iteration, then a finished specification we can repeat at volume. So you are working from stock and know-how that is ready to move.
The range
Most of what we offer is in stock or maturing on site right now. Tell us the style and the volume and we will put samples in front of you — or build a bespoke blend with you from the liquid we already hold.
Maturing on site
We hold around 250,000 litres of pure alcohol maturing with us on site — ready to sample, and to blend to your brief.
Blended to brief
Own-label blended Scotch — selected and bottled for your brand, to the same private-label brief as Irish whiskey.
Distilled in Cork
Developed with a local Cork gin distillery — bespoke botanical recipes built to your brief and bottled under your own label.
Distilled in Cork
Distilled at our own on-site facility in Cork and bottled in-house to your spec — clean, neutral and consistent, run after run.
Blended to brief
Blended to your flavour brief — Irish classics and bespoke recipes, bottled under your own label.
Markets
Every bottle is a fully authentic Irish whiskey — distilled and matured on the island of Ireland, then bottled at origin in our own bonded warehouse in Cork. That is genuine “Bottled in Ireland” provenance, not bulk liquid filled elsewhere — backed by Certificate of Irish Origin where your market needs it. We ship straight to your market from bond, minutes from the Port of Cork, so duty stays suspended until the goods land and there is one less intermediary in your chain.
50clientsIreland
8clientsIndia
7clientsUnited Kingdom
5clientsUnited States
3clientsCanada
3clientsUkraine
3clientsJapan
3clientsChina
2clientsNew Zealand
2clientsBelgium
1clientGeorgia
1clientFrance
1clientCyprus
1clientCzech Republic
1clientSwedenActive private-label clients by market.
Focus market · India
India is the largest whiskey market in the world by volume, and Irish whiskey has been growing there fast despite an import tariff of up to 150%.
We saw the opening coming. For the last 18 months we have been quietly onboarding Indian clients and building the origin paperwork in anticipation of the deal — so our partners are positioned to move the day preferences take effect, not scrambling to start from scratch.
On 27 January 2026 the EU and India concluded a Free Trade Agreement that will bring the tariff on spirits down substantially — reporting on the European Commission factsheet puts the landing point at 40%, phased in. It is a genuine shift in what is commercially possible in that market.
Where we are useful is the detail: preferences only apply to goods that can prove qualifying origin — a documentation problem, not a pricing one, and where these programmes fall over. We have already been through the Irish Certificate of Origin process with Revenue, including cases where the origin rules did not work and the route had to be redesigned.
Talk through an India programmeIrish pubs & bars
There is an Irish pub or Irish bar in almost every country on earth, and the one thing they all pour is a little piece of Ireland. We put that in the bottle: your own house Irish whiskey, matured and bottled at origin in Cork, wearing your bar’s own label.
From a family bar in Boston to an Irish pub in Sydney, your regulars already trust your pour. A house whiskey turns that into something they can only get from you — a genuine Irish whiskey, made and bottled in Ireland, on a bar label that carries your name.
We handle the lot from our bonded site in Cork: choosing the liquid, designing the label, bottling it and shipping it to your market. A premium own-label pour that is yours alone — no middleman, no compromise.
Why Lighthouse
We are not owned by a distillery, so we can find the right liquid for your product rather than the one we have to sell. Deep connections across the Irish industry give us access to everything on the market.
Decades of experience in the international spirits trade. We help you build a distinct, diversified portfolio instead of a single me-too SKU.
ISO 9001:2015 certified Quality Management System. Products carry the appropriate accreditations and G.I. verification from production through to bottling, with genuine “Bottled in Ireland” credentials.
Independently audited Quality Management System.
About
Lighthouse Drinks is an independent producer specialising in bringing the best of Irish whiskey and spirits to the world. From our home in the south of Ireland we supply wholesalers, distributors, retailers and brand owners across the globe.
Independence matters here: we are not owned by a distillery, so we are free to source the right liquid and the right glass for your product rather than the one we are obliged to move.
Our team of whiskey industry professionals and brand experts will take you from ideas on a page to bottled whiskey in your hand.
Unit 3/4, Cork Bonded Warehouses · Little Island Business Park · Cork, T45 YF43
Team
A close-knit team of whiskey, production and brand specialists — the same people you deal with from first sample to bottles on the pallet.
Founder & Managing Director
John brings over six years of industry experience. Outside the whiskey world his favourite topic is rugby — he can be found supporting Munster and Ireland most weekends.
Operations Director
Carlos runs our operation at Little Island on the edge of Cork city, and when he is not running the show he can be found somewhere at 4am watching the Philadelphia Eagles.
Quality & Compliance Manager
Apurva is from Lucknow and follows the Lucknow Giants. She turns her hand to everything from compliance and sensory work to recipe formulation, and can usually be found in the lab.
Clients
Partners come to us because we are packaging and sourcing specialists, not just a bottling line. Glass, closures, cartons, labels, barcodes and label compliance are handled in-house alongside the liquid — the part of a launch that quietly goes wrong, and the part we get right.
Contact
Tell us the style of whiskey, the volume and the market. We will come back with an indicative cost per bottle and a realistic timeline.
