Bushmills’s 400 Years
I’m a pretty flighty drinker. I rarely buy the same beer as the last one I purchased and I’m all over the place with wine. I used to be this way with whiskey but for the last few months I’ve found myself drinking Bushmills almost exclusively. Its round, soft flavors appeal to me.
Its distillery just turned 400. According to the Bushmills website “on 20th April, King James 1st grants Sir Thomas Phillips, governor of Ulster, a ‘licence to distil’ ulsce beatha (that’s gaelic for ‘water of life,’ or whickey as we know it today) within ‘the territory called the Rowte in County Antrim.’” Rowte would later be called the Bushmills area.
Here’s a nice, quick tour of the Bushmills distillery from BBC.com.
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