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  • edz
    edz Posts: 735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not sure of this, but something I once heard. In the times of Jesus wine as it was called wasn't like our wine . Since they had no refrigeration everything was distilled . That is why they had to mix it with 3 or 5 , whatever parts of water .

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 15,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    IIRC, Distilling was invented by monks in Ireland or thereabouts years later.

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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Distillation goes all the way back ancient Mesopotamia. Arabs used distillation for medicines and perfumes but not consumption. Wine in those times, and up until around 1100-1200 A.D., was the “fermentation of fruit or grain”. They would have to add water after to make it drinkable.
    Actual distillation for consumption happened a few places around the world around the same time. China, Italy, Persia. I don’t think anyone knows for sure who did it first.

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  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,861 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Outer space aliens would have been the only ones to cover that kind of ground with a new idea like that

    A little dirt never hurt
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 15,566 ✭✭✭✭✭

    There be bear in them thar hills.

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  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,861 ✭✭✭✭✭

    We've had a lot of bears showing up in neighborhoods around here. In the town to the north, where they have kids they will knock those bears out and haul them off. Oh ****, I'm off topic again

    A little dirt never hurt