[Curiosities] 10 curiosities you did not know about Whiskey

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We tell you 10 curiosities that you probably did not know about Whiskey
1. On average 34 bottles of whiskey are exported from Scotland every second.

2. The word whiskey comes from the Gaelic «uisgebeatha» which means «water of life».

3. The earliest known record of whiskey production dates back to 1494, but the word whiskey was not seen until 1715.

4. The drink must be aged in oak barrels for at least three years before it can be called whiskey.

5. A six-liter Lalique decanter of Macallan whiskey sold at auction for a record $ 628,000 last year.

 

6. The main whiskey drinkers in the world are the French, followed by Uruguay and the United States.

7. During prohibition, an exemption was made for whiskey prescribed by a doctor and sold through a pharmacy. The Walgreens pharmacy chain grew from 20 retail stores to nearly 400 during this period, from 1920 to 1933.

8. Bill Wilson, the founder of "Alcoholics Anonymous" asked for whiskey on his deathbed, but the nurse did not give it to him.

9. Jameson sells more Irish whiskey than all other Irish producers combined. Almost half of all Jamesons, $ 1.8 billion annually, are sold in the US, where it sells 13 times more whiskey than its closest competitor.

10. The largest whiskey producer in the world is in India.