Toasting to the Hunt: The Golden Age of Whisky

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When the first whisky makers fired up stills, they did not document the aqua vitae production. Distilling was just another chore in the pursuit of staying alive.

So, to tell the history of whisky, we exploit legends and a brief Exchequer Rolls mention of King James granting “eight bolls of malt” to Friar John Cor in 1494.

We will likely never definitively know where or who first made whisky, but one thing is certain…

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