the world's oldest distillery whose original grant to distill was issued in 1608.
Although in fact at that point the distillery had been running for about 400 years. My Dad was born in Bushmills, and that's the whiskey I grew up on. And, by the way, it makes a great hot toddy if you happen to have a cold (and even if you don't). The family recipe: two fingers of Bush in a mug, squirt of lemon, spoonful of sugar (honey for preference, mind you), fill with hot water and drink it up in bed. This was the cold remedy from when I was about six.