aqua vitae in a sentence

1. Is aqua vitae always translating to whiskey?

2. And certainly no one knows how Jon Cor made his aqua vitae.

3. Therefore, higher proof alcoholic distillates were later called aqua vitae.

4. And, it is also unclear if this aqua vitae for the king was distilled from grains.

5. The first documented mention was aqua vitae in Scottish tax records from the year 1494.

6. Nor is much known about Father Cor and his exact involvement in the distilling of this ‘aqua vitae’.

7. Its miracle force was so big that whisky called neither more nor less "vivifying water" or Aqua vitae.

8. Ripley, an English Alchemist, was the first one who managed to build the water of immortality (aqua vitae).

9. 1494: The Exchequer Rolls contain an entry that indicates that Friar John Cor produced aqua vitae whisk(e)y.

10. We are therefore actually striving for mystic life water (aqua vitae) rather than the Slavic word vodka (little water).

11. Until then the Lindores Abbey Distillery produces "Aqua Vitae", a kind of gin that does not need such a long time to mature.

12. The spirit with the Latin name for water of life - "aqua vitae" - is produced from pure and almost neutrally flavoured alcohol.

13. Many old sources in Ireland and later in Scotland refer to “aqua vitae”, translating form Latin to the water of life as whiskey.

14. The first distillate was called brantówka, the second was szumówka, and the third was okowita (from aqua vitae), which generally contained 70–80% ABV.

15. For nearly two hundred years, almost nothing is known about the development of distillation, or the way that aqua vitae or whisky was used in Scotland.

16. This type of aqua vitae one would rather call cognac or brandy, and the reasons for its inclusion in the book appears to be for medicinal purposes only.

17. King James IV has been referred to as the world’s first famous whisky drinker and it was to Edinburgh he granted a monopoly of the manufacture of aqua vitae or whisky.

18. Even today, arguing Irish and Scots about what this knowledge for the production of alcohol first took advantage of the two peoples to aqua vitae to distill the original whiskey.

19. I believe it is likely that the Forbes family distilled aqua vitae before 1690 – especially for medical purposes thus there is no proof that neither a clergyman, physician nor healer of their family supervised their production.

20. Although the malt for the production of the spirit was provided by the king, there is little indication that the resulting aqua vitae was intended for his consumption and is more likely to have been retained for future use as a medicine.