1495 WHISKY’S FOUNDING FATHER
TAKE THE WATERS OF LIFE
The dram-guzzling father of Scotch whisky was 15th-c friar John Cor. In the earliest vitae” – which means ‘w as ask as 15th-century record, from 1 June 1495, to “aqua vitae” – which means ‘water of life’ – Cor was asked by King James IV to distil whisky from eight “bolls of malt”. That was enough for a whopping 1,500 bottles of the amber potion.
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