The Dingle Whiskey Distillery is an independent family-owned business, thanks, in part, to our Founding Fathers program. When the Dingle Whiskey Distillery was founded, 500 casks were made available to whiskey lovers, investors, and connoisseurs. Those who chose to invest in a cask are known as the Founding Fathers of the Dingle Whiskey Distillery. Each of these casks is individual, painted with the Founding Father’s name, fill date, and cask number. Founding Fathers had the option of maturing their whiskey in whatever wood – port, sherry, Madeira, or bourbon, that they wished. Now that the spirit has come of age, each investor has the option to either bottle their whiskey, continue to allow it to mature for as long as they wish, or sell their cask back to the distillery. Each cask will be aged in Dingle as required and bottled only when its owner decides to do so. Come bottling time, whenever that may be, every bottle is numbered and given the name of its owner. If a Founding Father decides to bottle their whiskey, it is bottled into a Dingle Whiskey bottle with a one-off Dingle Founding Father's label. What our Founding Fathers choose to do with their whiskey once it is bottled and labeled is entirely up to them. Our Cask Strength release volume of 500 bottles per batch is a subtle nod to our 500 Founding Fathers.