{"id":49214,"date":"2018-07-27T22:34:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T22:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/07\/27\/sweet-mother-of-malted-barley-its-national-scotch-day\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:39:10","slug":"sweet-mother-of-malted-barley-its-national-scotch-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/off-duty\/2018\/07\/27\/sweet-mother-of-malted-barley-its-national-scotch-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet mother of malted barley! It\u2019s National Scotch Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day of July 27 is one of the holiest of days, a day in which we celebrate one of humanity\u2019s greatest nectar-based creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scotch, of course, is the beverage referenced. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2018\/06\/14\/tale-as-old-as-time-the-bond-between-the-military-and-whiskey\/\" target=_blank>whisky<\/a>, distilled in Scotland from malted barley and aged for at least three years in oak barrels, was first documented in 1494, two years after 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tax records those many years ago show that Friar John Cor, a magnificent agent of divine inebriation, made an order sufficient enough to produce about 1,500 bottles of the beverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"487\" height=\"471\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/giphy-47.gif.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89539\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Anchorman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s right \u2014 fifteen hundred bottles. Friar John was getting the party started over 500 years before Pink even had the idea to manufacture that infinitely abominable noise we, for some inexplicable reason, referred to as a song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As word of the refreshment\u2019s potency spread to Scots everywhere eager for intoxication, monks began distilling more, quickly making it a staple of Scottish culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The word \u201cwhiskey&#8221; (\u201cwhisky\u201d outside of the U.S.) evolved from the Gaelic \u201cuisge beatha,\u201d which translates to \u201cwater of life.\u201d And as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotch-whisky.org.uk\/understanding-scotch\/history-of-scotch-whisky\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scotch Whisky Association<\/a> notes, the drink \u201cwas taken for its medicinal qualities, being prescribed for the preservation of health, the prolongation of life, and for the relief of colic, palsy and even smallpox.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was essentially used for everything, which sounds like utter brilliance, except we also weren\u2019t the brightest back then and were dying off from simple things like sneezing or stubbing a toe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter the historical evolution of its use, however, scotch has continued to warm the bellies of international consumers as efficiently as any of its formidable elixir brethren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has survived USA prohibition, wars and revolutions, economic depressions and recessions, to maintain its position today as the premier international spirit of choice, enjoyed in more than 200 countries throughout the world,&#8221; the SWA says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So raise your glasses of Scotland\u2019s sweet libation to good drink, bagpipes, Friar John Cor, the Loch Ness Monster, kilts, the Scottish Highlands, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce or any other reasonable excuse you need to toss a few back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just do so responsibly. You don\u2019t want to be the newest addition to your command\u2019s weekend safety brief. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/07\/16\/survey-military-binge-drinking-drops-but-this-service-stood-out-in-a-bad-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">Looking at you, Marines<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sl\u00e1inte!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"495\" height=\"274\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/31J.gif.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89541\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nick Offerman always enjoys the finer things in life.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotch has continued to warm the bellies of international consumers as efficiently as any other elixir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":89537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":17,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[70,16,17,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3406],"class_list":["post-49214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-culture","category-news","category-off-duty","category-your-air-force"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"HPOLD5GFZBDK7PG2CDBZWIQVDQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-military\/2018\/07\/27\/sweet-mother-of-malted-barley-its-national-scotch-day\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sweet mother of malted barley! 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