Whether it’s watching the basalt rock naturally filtering the Old Bushmills Distillery’s water source or tasting whiskey from a Midleton Distillery pot still, Ireland whiskey travel covers the new, old and sensationally smooth. Once called “usquebaugh” or “uisce beatha” (Gaelic for water of life), Irish whiskey lure dates back to the fifth century, when according to an unproven legend, Saint Patrick introduced distillation to the Emerald Isle. Legends abound, the Irish Annals record a man drinking himself to death with the spirit in 1405.


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