[4] Old Monk has been the biggest Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) brand for many years.

[citation needed] In 1855, an entrepreneurial Scotsman named Edward Abraham Dyer, father of Colonel Reginald Dyer set up a brewery in Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh to cater to the British requirement for cheap beer.

This brewery changed hands and became a distillery by the name of Mohan Meakin Pvt.

Before Old Monk, there was Hercules rum (still sold) that was distilled exclusively for the armed forces.

The top part of the monk's head is the bottle cap, which also doubles up as a peg measure.

Old Monk is sold by some retailers in Russia, United States, UK, Germany, Japan, UAE, Estonia, Finland, Qatar, New Zealand, Canada, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Cameroon, Australia, Singapore, Bahrain[17] Malaysia, Cyprus,[18] and Oman