Bushmills Irish Whiskey

I am well aware that that's sacrilege to some people, but it just tastes nicer to me.

Well, I like a Bushmills whiskey.

Do you? When my cousins were over, other cousins, technically my mum's cousin was over from Ireland and knew a head of Bushmills.

I feel

whiskey hurts my throat.

That's what some people say, but I've trained myself to like it.

And Bushmills is a little bit sweeter.

Oh, is it? There you go.

My guest today is Darrell McNally.

Darrell McNally used to be the master distiller at Bushmills Distillery.

He set up Dublin Liberties Distillery in Dublin.

Has also been heavily involved in the creation of the Harbour View Hotel, Ireland's first whisky hotel.

...to pass the exams, which...

You know, which was nice because, but I always laugh at people when I was doing the exams.

I was almost doing the job beforehand, so each question I would have said, as operations manager at Bushmills Distillery, oldest licensed distillery in the world.

And then you would always say what you did.

He was literally at a funeral handing out his card.

And then right back to the bar for some Bushmills.

He played pinball? Well done steak.

So that's where I'll be.

Absolutely.

We did go over there and in meeting him, we thought the very best thing we could do to gain his confidence was we bought him a very nice bottle of 12-year-old malt Bushmills.

And we took a turn when we gave him that and then we asked him very politely, would he mind doing a video entrance for one of our golf tours? and then when we filmed that he said look any chance you do an exit for it and then could we ask you a few questions and he ended up doing all of it for us so one one bottle of whiskey and a charity auction later we have an intro and an outro and a whole lot of questions from funny

you may say because i bought a beautiful 12 year old scotch last week and now

But I do want to share something good enough to satisfy a neat sipper.

Blended malts like Shackleton are often a locker bottle for me, but I've spent time with various Dewars, Buffalo Trace, or Bushmills bottles filling the job.

I don't currently have one in mind, but I've got a month to find one for the upcoming season.

Juan Cruz chimed in with a couple of suggestions.

About sex and guns and rock and roll and all the bad things on me mind.

We never got to see the Reverend Ian And things went from bad to worse And I wonder if it all turned out the same Father Jim and he had a smoke We talked about racehorses and your pistols of St. Paul Oh, we bought the Bushmills, they could have settled it all Hey, Uncle Jim, I miss you still We fought like dimples sometimes Bad sex and guns and rock and roll All the bad things in me mind Hey, Uncle Jim, I miss you still We fought like dimples sometimes Bad sex and guns and rock and roll All the bad things in me

mind Hey! Celtic

rocker, turned her own life upside down Her own mcdonough, what to do with her Out drinking a spiral round

And what does Trump do when he's here? He lifts tariffs off, uh, Irish whiskey.

And by the way, if Micheál Martin had been awake, he'd have said, while this was still a live topic, "Will you, would you, would you include Bushmills in that?"

Why would he include Bushmills in that?

Because it's Irish.

But it's a, it, it's a competitive Ir- Well, Bushmills already would've been tariff free, because there's been a tariff free arrangement since, between the UK and the US since last year, because Keir Starmer managed to broker that.

Okay.

So actually, Bushmills has had a leg up-

Okay, sorry

I cannot recommend it enough.

Even like an hour and a half away from Belfast or so, you've got like the Northwest Coast, you've got like the Giant's Causeway, you've got Coleraine, Portrush, Port Stewart, you've got Bushmills Whiskey.

um yeah really beautiful part of the world and even like sort of like um on the south east of northern ireland you've kind of got like the strangford lock you've got the coast roads you've got the more mountains then you've even got like um You've got like the Strangford Ferry as well.

So you go into Porter Ferry and go to Castle Ward, which is like a national trust site.