This 400-Year-Old Whiskey Brand Is The World's Oldest In Existence. (Yes, It's Irish) - Chowhound

Prilutskiy/Shutterstock In April 1608, King James I, who ruled Ireland, Scotland, and England, granted Sir Thomas Phillips the first legal license to distill aqua vitae (Latin for "water of life," aka the precursor to whiskey) in what is now the village of Bushmills in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Whiskey, or uisce beatha in Irish Gaelic, had a history in the area going as far back as the 13th century. In…