Perhaps many do not know, among them the most fond of asking for it in low, wide and iceless glass. But the origin of the word whiskey, its name, comes from “Uisce Beatha”, an expression in Irish gaelic that, translated into Latin, would be “Aquavitae”. Or what is the same: life water.
It was about 1492 When, while Colon And theirs arrived in America, the first historical mention of whiskey was produced, the same time in which distillation is invented at the hands of the Irish monks. And this is how the Scots, mainly those in the north of the country, created the “water of life.” Since then this country not only drinks it, but exports, bottles worth about 25 billion dollars a year.
There are, however, other writings that attest that the aforementioned Irish monks They already distilled whiskey in 1405, although it seems that it was already known when the soldiers of King Enrique II invaded Ireland, in the twelfth century.
Distillation, patented
At that time and according to some historians, the local soldiers consumed the “Uisce Beatha”, the same life of life that, over time, went from “whiskKeyba” to simply “whiskey.”
In any case, one of the large precursors was Robert Stein, the inventor of a continuous operation distillation column, invention that in 1832 It was patented by Coffey Aeneas.
From there, that drink originally linked to the monks began to be distributed among society as a medicineas an authentic and repairing “Life Water”. With the increase in its popularity, logically, the increase in its price and its subsequent smuggling came. An illegal business that, after granting the relevant licenses to many distilleriesit was disappearing.
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