The Glenlivet has long had a reputation for being one of the finest whiskies available.
The distillery was known by that name until the 20th century.
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The following year, Alexander Reid was granted a license to distill the Macallan on the grounds of the Easter Elchies House, which was built in 1700. That year, George Smith obtained a license to operate a distillery in the Glenlivet - which translates to Valley of the Deer. When the laws were changed in 1823, the Macallan and the Glenlivet - only 18.5 miles away - were two of the first sites to obtain licenses and ramp up commercial production. That’s a lot of illegal hooch! Illicit distillation was so prolific that Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard, wrote lyrics about the exciseman in 1792. At one point in the early 19th century, about 14,000 illegal stills were confiscated each year by authorities. Thus, a long and illustrious tradition of illicit distillation began in Scotland.
And as soon as the King’s men began collecting taxes on the whisky distilled in Scotland, proud Scots began ducking those taxes. Part of the treaty required that alcohol be taxed at the same rate throughout the island. The Acts of Union in 1707 united the kingdoms of England and Wales with Scotland to create Great Britain. And as long as whisky has been made, the authorities have been looking to tax this valuable commodity. But written evidence of scotch distillation dates to 1494, when the King’s exchequer wrote that malt was sent to Friar John Cor to make aquavitae - Latin for the ‘water of life,‘ which in Scots Gaelic translates to uisge-beatha, later anglicized to simply ‘whisky.’Įxchequer is a royal accountant. By some estimates, as long as a millennium ago. The Scots have been fermenting beer made with barley and other grains and then distilling it into spirits for a long time. To tell the story of these two brands who sit on the banks of the River Spey, it behooves us to explore the history of whisky-making in Scotland.
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