Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Drinking Irish whiskey this St. Patty’s Day?  I don’t know a better way to commemorate St. Patrick!  Invented by the Irish monks, whiskey predates Scotch by over seven hundred years.  Most historians believe that it was invented sometime around 500 AD.  Originally named Uisce Beatha, or The Water of Life, whiskey was first used for medicinal purposes.  And if somehow you entered an altered state by drinking this Water of Life, it was considered a holy phase.  Nowadays, that holy phase is entered every St. Patrick’s Day by not only the Irish, but by anyone who is feeling Irish for the day.