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Whisky has been a table companion for centuries, but not much about the amber liquid has changed through the ages. Vintage insights remain relevant. We've curated some interesting excerpts from older publications that are rather difficult to find in bookstores today.

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Chapter 28: Memories; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
May 19, 2022
It runs in the family: Billy Chambers' father David worked at Bushmills before him (here filling casks, 1973) For six people, the 400th anniversa...
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Chapter 27: New Frontier; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making"
May 19, 2022
Full steam ahead. Bushmills' new ambitions mean Colum and his team have never been busier. There is only one certainty in the drinks industry —...
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Chapter 26: Le Whiskey; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
May 19, 2022
In 1987 Bushmills launched their now world-famous ten-year-old single malt, but it was one of the few innovations that Irish Distillers had pion...
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Chapter 25: Irish Distillers Group; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
May 19, 2022
By the mid-1960s there was effectively just one working distillery left in Northern Ireland. In the Republic only three remained; John Jam...
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Chapter 24: Charrington; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
May 18, 2022
In the cooperage, late 1960s. Davy Gault, then an apprentice cooper, helps cooper John Hanna mend a Sherry butt. "Today, Davy is a lorry drive...
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Chapter 23: New York; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
May 18, 2022
The New York skyline On Sunday morning, 24th April 1960, six men got off an Aer Lingus plane at New York's Idlewild airport. One of them was Aust...
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Chapter 22: Big Business; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
May 18, 2022
In December 1962, the year he was awarded a knighthood, Time magazine ran a profile of the boss of Great Universal Stores, the sixty-five-year-old ...
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Chapter 21: Of Bushmiles and Barley; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
May 18, 2022
The Nugent family have had a long association with the whiskey business in Northern Ireland. James Nugent was Managing Director of McConnell's, a B...
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Chapter 20: Coleraine; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
April 17, 2022
Illustration of Coleraine during the 19th century Coleraine is one of the most fondly remembered of Ireland's numerous silent distilleries. The r...
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Chapter 19: The Brothers Boyd; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
April 8, 2022
The wooden wash backs (fermenting vessels) where the wort is converted into a strong beer (wash), 1926 Following the death of his father, Wilso...
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Chapter 18: Ireland's Best; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
April 7, 2022
The coopers' yard, 1926 In the days before distillery-bottled whiskeys like 'Black Bush', most Irish distillers stuck to making the whiskey, lea...
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Chapter 17: The Noble Experiment; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
April 7, 2022
After a chase through the streets of Washington, some bootleggers are apprehended by the Capitol Police (1921) Nowadays the word 'prohibition' h...
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