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 1: The Land of Legends; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
March 27, 2022
The Giant’s Causeway, 2 miles – or a (giant’s) stone’s throw – from the distillery. If the Giant's Causeway is the 'Ninth Wonder of the World', t...
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Chapter 30: How to Make Whiskey; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making”
November 18, 2021
Colum Egan is the Old Bushmills Master Distiller and a man who knows a lot about whiskey and a lot about how to manage his team. "It takes six guys...
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Chapter 29: The Drink; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making"
November 18, 2021
If you were to build a distillery from scratch it would not look anything like Old Bushmills. This higgledy-piggledy collection of red brick and sl...
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Chapter 10: What is Whisky?; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making"
November 18, 2021
In this modern age of EU food regulations, it is sometimes easy to forget that not so long ago things were very different. At the turn of the 20th ...
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Chapter 9: Irish Coffey; "Bushmills: 400 Years in the Making"
October 14, 2021
In 1830, Irishman Aeneas Coffey patented a much more efficient distillation apparatus that permitted continuous distillation- as opposed to dist...
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