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Passports please… How to get on the trail of a remarkable renaissance in NI distilling
Passports please… How to get on the trail of a remarkable renaissance in NI distilling,Fifteen years ago, if someone had suggested it would be a great idea to encourage Northern Ireland’s increasing number of visitors to take a tour of our local distilleries, they’d have been laughed out of their brainstorming session. Because at that time there was just one distillery here, the ever-reliable Old Bushmills. Apart from that lone outpost, all the distilling in Ireland was done south of the border, mostly in Midleton, Co Cork.

Passports please… How to get on the trail of a remarkable renaissance in NI distilling

Fifteen years ago, if someone had suggested it would be a great idea to encourage Northern Ireland’s increasing number of visitors to take a tour of our local distilleries, they’d have been laughed out of their brainstorming session. Because at that time there was just one distillery here, the ever-reliable Old Bushmills. Apart from that lone outpost, all the distilling in Ireland was done south of the border, mostly in Midleton, Co Cork.