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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 16: Partition; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
April 7, 2022
Partition divided Ireland in two. On a clear day it is possible to stand on the North Antrim coast and gaze across the distance at Scotl...
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Chapter 15: 20th Century Blues; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
April 7, 2022
The coopers' yard, early 1900s Eleven years after Alfred Barnard's pilgrimage around the United Kingdom, the Scotch whisky 'bubble' burst. In 18...
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Chapter 14: SS Bushmills; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
April 7, 2022
The SS Bushmills travelled as far as Singapore on its voyages Lloyd's Register of Shipping has buried in its records the curious and until now ...
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Chapter 13: Single Malt; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 30, 2022
Bushmills advertisement In August 1891, the Bushmills Old Distillery company reformed with a share capital of £110,000. It is around this point...
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Chapter 12: Phoenix; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 30, 2022
Detail of the Electric Railway passing Dunlucc Castle on  the north Antrim coast When Old Bushmills finally hit the headlines, it was for all t...
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Chapter 11: Small is Beautiful; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 29, 2022
The EiffeI Tower, entrance to the Paris Exibition of 1889. Size mattered. Old Bushmills was small and the very thing that a generation earlier ha...
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Chapter 8: Mr McKibben; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 29, 2022
Poitin didn't go away. In fact it is still possible to find a man, who knows a man, who knows a man, who will get a bottle for you. A decade after ...
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Chapter 7: The Poteen Years; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 29, 2022
The decades that followed the introduction of the Still Tax in 1779 have become known as ‘The Poteen Years'. Legitimate operations like the newly e...
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Chapter 6: Modern Times; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 29, 2022
It says a lot about Old Bushmills that a section titled 'Modern Times' starts in 1610. But then, as one of the two towns developed by the London Gu...
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Chapter 5: The Plantations of Ulster; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 27, 2022
The Plantation of Ulster was a planned process of colonisation. English and Scottish Protestants were given lands in parts of the counties of Doneg...
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Chapter 4: Tudor Law; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 27, 2022
The Old Bushmills distillery can trace its heritage back to a patent to distil that was granted 20th April 1608. But this being Ireland, nothing is...
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Chapter 3: The Plague Spirit; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 27, 2022
The Black Death hit London in September 1348, and by the spring it had laid waste to the country. The Irish Sea was no obstacle—by the following su...
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