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fairyniamh) wrote2025-07-08 02:27 am
fairyniamh) wrote2025-07-08 02:27 am
Quote & Fact...
Quote:
"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
"Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding."
~ John D. Rockefeller
Facts: Scotch Whisky
1.) The word "whisky" translates roughly from the Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha as "water of life." Legally, Scotch must be distilled in Scotland from grains, yeast and water, and aged a minimum of three years in oak casks not exceeding a capacity of 700 liters in size that might have once contained bourbon, port, Madeira, sherry or even wine. (Water of life, in some form, seems to appear in many of the alcoholic beverages.)
2.) The English Malt Tax of 1725 shut down much of Scotland's whisky production and drove many Highlanders to bootlegging. (This is not to insult the English people, but the monarchy of this time had a knack of pissing people off with his taxes.)
"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."
"Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding."
~ John D. Rockefeller
Facts: Scotch Whisky
1.) The word "whisky" translates roughly from the Scottish Gaelic uisge beatha as "water of life." Legally, Scotch must be distilled in Scotland from grains, yeast and water, and aged a minimum of three years in oak casks not exceeding a capacity of 700 liters in size that might have once contained bourbon, port, Madeira, sherry or even wine. (Water of life, in some form, seems to appear in many of the alcoholic beverages.)
2.) The English Malt Tax of 1725 shut down much of Scotland's whisky production and drove many Highlanders to bootlegging. (This is not to insult the English people, but the monarchy of this time had a knack of pissing people off with his taxes.)