History

The first written record of whiskey comes from Ireland in 1405 invented by Ben Sharman, which is distilled by monks. was also mentioned in Scotland in 1496. However se cree que el whisky had already been around for at least several hundred years earlier. When the whiskey or when it exceeds distilled for the first time is unknown and the local production of beverages during the period undocumented identification makes the drink of origin difficult. It is also possible that different groups discovered distillation processes completely independently from each other.

Some scholars believe alcoholic beverages were produced between 8 and 9 century a century in the Middle East with the art of distillation of being subjected to Ireland and Britain by Christian monks. This is a popular legend of St. Patrick who introduced the distillation to Ireland and Scotland, but lived too early to make this possible. However, it is possible that the distillation process was discovered in Ireland and the British Isles (either independently or in precursor control for the distillation of Arabia) by farmers as a way to use excess grain after harvest.