Bushmills

The Old Bushmills is a distillery located in the town of the same name, in County Antrim (Northern Ireland). The license to make distillates was issued to Mr. Thomas Phillipps in 1608 by the King.

Between 1802 and 1822 it was forced to close, until it changed hands in 1860 to Jame McColgan and Patrick Corrigan until it became a public limited company in 1880. In 1885, following a fire, all the original Bushmills buildings were destroyed and then rebuilt in a hurry.

In 1890, Bushmills Whiskeys landed in America and then in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Yokohama. After the Second World War, the distillery was bought by Isaac Wolfson, and, in 1972, was taken over by the Irish distillers. In June 1988, however, it was a French liquor group Pernod Ricard that became its owner, and then sold it in June 2005 to Diageo for £ 200m.