Gumbo’s Pic of the Day, October 23, 2014: Old Bushmills Distillery, Bushmills, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
On April 20th, 1608, King James I granted Sir Thomas Phillips (a landowner and Governor of Co. Antrim, Ireland) a license to distill. Thus, the Bushmills Distillery claims to be—and is almost unanimously considered to be—the…