Obviously, there is no connection between the thousand-year-old tradition of the ancient Egyptian world and the relatively modern product, whiskey. Especially since we are talking about two different practices. The first, the old one, deals with the use of make-up, while the new one deals with the distillation and production of alcoholic beverages.

This distance, both in time and in practice, between ancient Egyptian make-ups and modern whiskey-uk is, as I said, only imaginary. In fact, if the first hadn’t happened, the second probably wouldn’t have happened either. Or, at most, it would appear much later.

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Obviously, the path was not easy. It’s actually a lot more tortuous than you might imagine. And that’s what we’re going to do, to take you through the world of ancient, Egyptian or Greek, medieval, Arab or European invention, and then to how whiskey not only arrived in Europe, but how it got its name. Because this name is not so simple. In fact, it has a much deeper meaning than you might imagine. Like the entire history of this drink.

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If you are interested in the topic with which we open this new podcast series “A Brief History of Alcohol”, then we suggest you listen to the audio material we have prepared for you.

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Plot: Adrian Nicolae | Sound design: Adi Jacob

Photo: Archive of World History / Alamy / Alamy / Profimedia (Edited)