The WILD History of Scotch Whisky

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In this video, we look at the surprising history and origins of scotch whisky, where whisky is from originally, who invented whisky, when scotch whisky was invented and how Scotland became so famous around the world. In this video, we explore a timeline of events, from all the way back to the early history of Aqva Vitae with the monks and then to the recent whisky crash in the 1980s.

0:00 Sponsor
0:08 The History of Whisky Intro
1:07 500ad Invention of Highland Beer
1:27 What is Alcohol?
2:18 Invention of Distillation
3:55 Who Invented Whisky?
4:42 SPONSOR SEGMENT
5:27 Where Is Whisky From Originally? - Ireland to Scotland
5:58 The Canterbury Tales - Alchemists make whisky
6:35 1494 First Evidence of Whisky Making - Exchequer Rolls
7:32 The King that loved Scotch - King James IV
8:11 Local communities start to make whisky
9:27 Whisky and TAX - Acts of Union 1707
10:06 1725 Extension of the Malt Tax
10:19 Malt Tax Riots 1725
10:56 The rise of Illicit distilling and smuggling
11:54 The Lowland–Highland tax line
13:18 The King who drank only Highland whisky
14:09 Excise Act 1823
16:14 The 1820s Whisky Merchants
16:55 The History of Glenlivet Distillery - George Smith
17:14 Lowlands make better whisky
18:07 Invention of the continuous column still
19:07 The Phylloxera Plague
19:52 1890s - The first whisky boom
20:31 Prohibition in the United States
20:49 Wood Maturation & David George
23:12 Whisky boom in the 1950s & 1960s
24:02 Whisky bust of the 1970s & 1980s
25:00 The Whisky Loch
25:46 Rising Age Statements
26:15 The modern whisky boom
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