Irish whiskey was, they'll tell you in Ireland, the first whiskey. The word "whiskey" is Irish. "Uisge," in Gaelic, is water. "Beatha" is life. Water of life — "aqua vitae" in Latin, a catchall phrase ...
Bushmills has been in operation since the year 1608. The distillery just released a 46-year-old whiskey—the oldest Irish ...