Pappa Nick's Learning Corner Part III

Hi kids it is time for this week’s installment of Pappa Nick's Learning corner, this week’s article is brought to you by poor decisions and incomplete memories. While nursing my hangover today I tried to piece together the events of last night and that's when I remember all the random Whiskey I drank so I felt it fitting to dedicate this week’s learning session to the drink that Ireland and White Trash made famous.

Whiskey like most alcohols started its life as a method for people to cure ailments that affected their daily lives. Some of these ailments include; a cure for colic (leave it to the Irish to get babies drunk to shut them up), small pox, and most importantly ugliness in the opposite sex. The distillation process was brought to Ireland by Missionaries (yep not just a position) in the 6th century and the drink spread like wildfire through the monasteries as a medicinal beverage because of its uncanny ability to cure sobriety. Once the Irish peasantry discovered Whiskey had the ability to get one completely shit faced with minimal effort its popularity grew even more. After King Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries the newly independent monks needed to get paid so they moved their distilling process into their private homes and began the first privatized Whiskey production.

Here are some random facts that you may not know about Whiskey
- During Prohibition it was legal for pharmacists to sell Whiskey if prescribed by a doctor, and because of this the Walgreen's Pharmacy grew from 20 stores to almost 400 during this time
- During the American Revolutionary War Whiskey was used as a currency

Pappa Nick's Learning Corner Part II

Hi kids it's time for the next installment of Pappa Nick's Learning Corner. This weeks topic is something very near and dear to not only my heart but many of yours as well... Tequila! Did you know that Tequila is the only spirit that was invented in the new world? It was invented because a group of Conquistadors in Mexico ran out of Brandy and in a drunken panic began looking for any liquid they could use as an alcoholic beverage. Lucky for them the Aztec were also boozers and had already developed a beer like beverage from the Agave plant which grew natively in the region. Upon trying this beverage, the Conquistadors liked how it tasted but did not like how long it took them to get drunk so they decided to distilled the shit out of it until it could adequately get them as drunk as a kickball team on a Thursday night, and the rest is history...



For more information on this delicious topic please visit the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila

Drunk History

Hi everyone it's time for Pappa Nick's learning corner where we get to combine our two favorite things... learning and drinking!