History Of Scotch Whiskey

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Hello my name is Patrick McMenamin the owner of Caledonia Bar here in Budapest and I'm here this morning on behalf of Expert Village to tell you something about Scottish whiskey and the range of Scottish whiskey we have here at the Caledonia. If you image the Scottish highlands around 500 A D a savagely rough and rustic highlands with water flowing in bodies swirling and the wind. A group of Irish monks then arrived with what they're called a wonderful recipe for turning for what was then very much fermented beer and for what they're called the water of life. The process for doing this was probably already discovered possibly in far East India or even indeed China, but indeed the Irish monks came to Scotland and helped turn what was then very rough fermented oatmeal and drunk as beer and to what we're called today the water of life, which is indeed whiskey. As an English corruption of the ancient name for spirits which is the water of life Scotch means simply that the whiskey was distilled armatured in Scotland, whiskey of course made in other countries in Ireland and Japan and indeed American. Whiskey's may have well be and possibly even good whiskeys but Scotch is always made armatured in Scotland.

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