On this day, King James IV of Scotland commissioned friar John Cor, a Tironensian Monk from the Abbey of Lindores in Scotland, to turn eight bolls of malt into Aqua Vitae. The Tironensians Monks, who originated from Tiron, in France, were well known for their horticultural skills and were were often involved in manual and agricultural labour which they believed cleansed the soul. The order for the Aqua Vitae appears in the Exchequer Roll of 1494 and is the first known written reference to what we call today Scotch Whisky. Eight bolls of malt amounts to around 500kg in modern terms and would have been enough to make about 400 bottles of today’s whisky. In 2017, 523 years later, the copper stills at Lindores Abbey Distillery were finally revived, and the first single malt whisky was released in 2021.
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