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

Bushmills is much more than whiskey. It's a village where family, friends, and neighbours work side-by-side at the distillery. As we often say, "without the village, there would be no whiskey, and without the whiskey, there would be no village." Bushmills gets its name from the many windmills that dotted the banks of the River Bush.

In the 1850s, the English Crown imposed a tax on distilleries in Ireland through a barley tax. Even then, it was known worldwide that malted barley was used to produce the best whiskey, known as "pure malt" whiskey. When only malted barley prepared in a single distillery is used for distillation, you have everything you need to define "single malt" whiskey. This tax, however, forever changed Irish whiskey, as almost every Irish distillery began to replace barley with corn or other lower-value grains.

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

“We're not good because we're old. We're old because we're good!”

Colum Egan, Master Distiller,

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 USA.

Bushmills' famous malt whiskey has won numerous awards at various global forums, including the only gold medal for whiskey at the Paris Exhibition in 1889.