Bushmills

Bushmills is the oldest whiskey distillery in the world, which received its license in 1608.

Bushmills is much more than whiskey. This is a village where family, friends and neighbors work side by side in the distillery. As we often say, "without the village there would be no whiskey, and without whiskey there would be no village." Bushmills got its name from the many windmills that dot the banks of the Bush River.

In the 1950s, the British Crown imposed a tax on distilleries in Ireland through a tax on barley. Even then, it was known around the world that malt barley was used to make the best whiskey, known as "pure malt" whiskey. When only malt barley prepared in a distillery is used for distillation, you have everything you need to define a "malt" (single malt) whiskey. However, this tax changes Irish whiskey forever, as almost every Irish distillery begins to replace barley with corn or other lower-value cereals.

But not the Bushmills. To this day, Bushmills continues to distill single malt whiskey at the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery.

“Ние не сме добри, защото сме стари. Ние сме стари, защото сме добри!”

Callum Egan, Master Destiller,

In 1885, a catastrophic fire destroyed The Old Bushmills distillery, but it was soon rebuilt and returned to full production to meet growing demand in the United States.

Bushmills' famous malt whiskey has won numerous awards from various world forums, including the only gold medal for whiskey at the Paris 1889 exhibition.