Today is "World Whisky Day" 🥃 on the "National Holiday" Calendar for Saturday 15th May 2021. So I thought it would be good to know a little more about this fun & entertaining Topical event.

Here are some interesting facts...

The ‘water of life’ has had a storied past. The first evidence of distillation — the essential process for creating whisky — dates back to Mesopotamia around 2000 B.C. It wasn’t until 100 A.D. that Alexander of Aphrodisias created the first recorded instance of distillation — he distilled seawater to make it into pure drinking water! Distillation techniques for whisky wouldn’t come around until around 1100, at the earliest, when monks traveling into Scotland fermented grain mash and created the first instance of the beverage.

However, the first year in which whisky was officially mentioned as a distilled product was in 1405. It’s written in a family’s history that someone in their clan died after drinking too much at Christmas. Over the next hundred years, whisky distillation became widespread in Scotland. Later, when King Henry VII of England disbanded monasteries, many monks made their living by selling the whisky they distilled to the general public. Soon, whisky was available to all!

From as early as the 1600s, Scottish immigrants to the new American colonies brought distillation practices with them, and whisky was available quite early in North America. Around the same time, the first whisky distillery in Ireland was officially licensed, in 1608. Whisky made another notable appearance in the 1770s and 1780s, during the American Revolution, when it was so valuable that many distilleries actually used it as a currency.

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• The National Calendar Website Link [here] (for more information).

Now for some appropriate Music...

I do remember watching the band "Thin Lizzy" perform many times on the once popular British TV weekly Music show. The show included mostly song hits from the latest Music Chart for that week.

My Song Selection For Today is: "Whiskey In The Jar" by the band "Thin Lizzy".

Above Music Video Source: ©YouTube [Here]

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Many Thanks for reading and listening,
see you all again very soon... 👋