Alex Thomas, Old Bushmills Whiskey Master Blender

Paying Homage to the World's Oldest Licensed Distillery

Douglas Blyde, 19.05.2022

Falstaff visited the Old Bushmills Distillery in Northern Ireland, which has triumphed over fire, war and prohibition in the 400 years it has produced whiskey.

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"Do something which scares you every day," advised Bushmills Master Blender Alex Thomas over dinner by the fire at The Bushmills Inn Hotel in County Antrim. It transpired Thomas first professionally applied this tenet to an inaugural public speaking engagement in North America in 2017, and then again when developing The Sexton Single Malt Irish Whiskey.

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