Retro Raunch Revisit

JUN 1, 1495: In Scotland's Exchequer Rolls (National Registy of historical records), Friar John Cor appears in the earliest-ever written account as having been the first man to have produced distilled Scotch malt whisky. Corr was either a Dominican monk from the Catholic Order of Preachers or a Tironensian monk of a monastic order from a reformed branch of the Benedictines. His exact congregation is unclear & may have been in Edinburgh but his first batch was made at an Abbey in Fife. Reportedly given the consignment order to make alcohol by special request of King James IV himself, it is also believed that Cor is possibly the same friar who on Christmas 1494 was given livery cloth for his royal service as a clerk and also previously on Christmas 1488 was gifted 14 shillings by the King. While Cor's name appears in the first known reference to whisky (with distillation actually illegal in Scotland for almost 400yrs(!) until 1823), historians have pointed to the Irish and ancient Greeks as claimants for being the inventors.