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The term Uisge beatha or ‘the water of life’, is derived from the Latin aqua vitae. Over time, this Scottish Gaelic name for distilled alcohol was shortened to uisge and in English became known as ‘whisky’. Many hundreds of years ago, well before the drink became synonymous with Scottish culture and tourism, aqua vitae was produced and employed by monasteries as a form of medicine. Religious houses had the time and resources to make whisky, with access to fresh water and grain.
The first recorded mention of whisky in Scotland is in a
