Whisky A Very Peculiar History
Each week I will try and post quotes or a bit of history from the book "Whisky A Very Peculiar History" that I bought at the gift shop of the oldest distillery in Scotland.
PERFUME AND PAINT
Distillation has a very ancient history. It was probably invented in the Middle East and used for making perfumes. Pottery jars with rims designed to catch drops of cooled vapor have survived from around 3500 BC. Much later, around 400 BC, Ancient Greek scientists distilled metallic salts, hoping to create longer lasting pigments for artists. By around 1150, in Muslim Spain and multicultural Sicily, experimenters had perfected techniques for distilling alcohol make to preserve medicine.
Whisky a very peculiar history
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