Whisky - Scotland's Water of Life

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[TastingHistory]

Try a bottle of Aberfeldy Scotch here:
Also, I recorded this only days before Queen Elizabeth II passed and have left my mention of her in as a future reminder to myself of where I was at the time.

[Betta]

"Balmoral, where the Queen is as we speak."

Very rarely does a sentence become outdated the same day it's spoken.

[emitaylor]

Did max... pack Pokémon plushies for his trip to Scotland?
That's commitment.

[russbear]

Interesting factoid: I'm in Missouri and we actually do a lot of trade with Scotland. Making oak barrels for Scottish distilleries is actually a large business in the Ozarks. The Scots depleted their oak forests centuries ago and now must import their barrels in from North America.

The oak barrels from Missouri also end up in the bourbon distilleries in Kentucky and Tennessee. 😀

[cadepeterman]

I enjoy the thought of Max selecting which Pokemon plushies he would pack for his vacation.

[AlS-durt]

Not only is this video about history, it is a snapshot of history. 💗🙏

[svampius]

Here in Scandinavia, aqua vite (akvavit) is a predominately dill-flavoured herb-infused vodka at 30-35%! It's also got a centuries long history, dating back to a Danish noble sending a letter and a bottle to a Norwegian bishop, urging him to try this "life water" to alleviate him from his illnesses!

[ruialmeida]

You have to make a drinking history about the Port wine... :D there's so much to explore there. If you ever visit Portugal, there are 2 museums dedicated to Port wine - one dedicated to the storage and sale of the fortified wine in Vila Nova de Gaia (just across the river from Porto), and another dedicated to the production of the wine itself, from the agricultural process to the production of the wine itself, and the process of shipping it downriver to Vila Nova de Gaia - this museum is called the Douro Museum and it's located in Peso da Régua, inland from Porto.

[Joy_]

I live in Moray, which has the highest concentration of distilleries in Scotland, and my husband works in one, and yes we do get an allowance of free whisky! so I really enjoyed this episode.

[PoppycockPrincess]

Love how the rule that whisky had to be aged backfired.

[TroyBrinson]

I noticed you commented on the phylloxera epidemic of the 1800s. It might be interesting for you to do an episode on how Missouri vineyards saved France from the phylloxera epidemic because Missouri wines were resistant to the plague. It’s a very interesting story that involves Thomas Jefferson France and history. Love your channel

[Boom]

Great shout on having Scottish History Tours featured, and collaborating with him on his channel!

[channah]

My favourite part of this video was the "medicinal" section. When we were little and came down with colds, Grandma would run to pour us kids a capful of Whisky. She swore it would kill the sickness!

[PokhrajRoy.]

My favourite food and drink stories are the “We don’t know where it’s from exactly” because it adds to the intrigue of the audience.

[SamSnoekBrown]

True story: my wife and I decided to enjoy a dram while watching your video, so I poured us a couple glasses and pressed play. By pure coincidence, the whisky we were drinking was . . . Aberlour! So, sláinte, sir! You gave us a delightful flashback to our own jaunt along the Whisky Trail back in 2008. 

An aside, but please tell me you've learned about the drunk Highland cows! As my great-aunt from Aberdeenshire told us, "People say the Scots are frugal, but I think we're just canny." Canny, indeed!

[russbear]

Wow! If you dig deeper you'll find that my state (Missouri) has played a huge role in the Scottish whisky industry and the French wine industry. Besides Missouri supply Scottish distilleries with oak barrels today, Missouri also rescued the French wine industry from phyllozera. In the late 1800s a region of Missouri about 100 miles southwest of St Louis was known as the "Little Rhine" where German immigrants had planted vineyards. It was the Napa Valley of the 1800s. Long story short: Grape vine cuttings from Missouri were sent to France to help reestablish the vineyards that were diseased. Those vines are still producing French wine today.

[MRichK]

Ian Tamblyn has a nice song called "The Angel's Share" which is what people call the part of the whiskey that evaporates through the cask before bottling. Some small percentage every year. I remember hearing him sing it on a ship in the Hebrides many years ago now. Its why it gets mellower with aging in the cask up to a point...

[dersuddeutschesumpf]

I really wouldn't mind if you made more of this kind of history only content on cooking. The depth of research and you delivery of it is extremely entertaining.

[Dlt]

So what you’re saying is that when my grandpa made bathtub gin during prohibition, he was simply following in the cultural footsteps of his ancestors in the Highlands.

[ieatbananaskins]

The modern Irish for whiskey is “uisce beatha” (ishka bah-ha) which means holy water

I would love a follow up video on Irish whiskey and how it compares to scotch - especially because of how it’s making a massive comeback, there was a very long period where Middleton had one of Ireland’s only 3 distilleries and now Irish whiskey is seriously challenging scotch because of its smoother taste, the importance of the US and UK market in all this cannot be understated

EDIT: There were 3 distilleries instead of 1 - I got my facts wrong so I've edited what I said