在欧亚大陆最西端的一个翡翠之岛，这里物华天宝、地杰人灵，最早流传着至今风靡全球的whiskey蒸馏技术，没错！这就是岛国爱尔兰。当然它的兄弟苏格兰在以后的几百年里发展并奠定了whiskey的基本特征，并诠释了”water  of  life”的含义；大多数历史学家较为一致的说法，最早的的蒸馏技术由  St patrick传播于爱尔兰公元432年，但有份量的记载是1494年苏格兰的 Lindores 修道院造就的whiskey载入了史册；在以后的岁月苏格兰人创造了辉煌的威士忌文化。

In an emerald island at the westernmost end of Eurasia, the world's most popular whiskey distillation technology is the first to spread here, right! This is the island of Ireland. Of course, its brother Scotland developed and established the basic characteristics of whiskey in the next few hundred years, and interpreted the meaning of "water of life"; most historians agree that the earliest distillation technology was spread by St Patrick in 432 ad in Ireland, but the important record is that whisky created by lindores monastery in Scotland in 1494 was recorded in history And in the later years ,they created the extraordinary culture of  whiskey making.