Distilled Alcohol Is a Spirit

The first record of distilled alcohol being called spirits goes back to the greeks. aristotle said that drinking distilled wine or beer, it put spirits into the body of the person drinking it. The irish pochen maker truly believed that they were magicians, but they had a sense of shame about it. So out of superstition, they would never take the first sip of that pocin that came out of the still. They trod their shoulder for the fairies.