Atrip to the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world

White-washed walls, black slate bricks and over 400 years of history: anyone who likes Irish whiskey also knows Bushmills and the associated distillery in the north of Northern Ireland, about three kilometres from the coast. Although you could already call the Old Bushmills Distillery a distillery settlement, because just like good whiskey, the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world has had time to develop. Over the centuries, a few large and small buildings, halls, warehouses and other structures have come together to form a village within a village. And indeed: if you took away the entrance gate on Distillery Road or the barrier including the house in the street next to it, you would think you had landed on an ordinary side street with old and large buildings on the side. This is no coincidence, as the distillery and the village and its inhabitants have always been connected, or, as ...