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The History of Distilled Spirits
Experiment distillation was practised in ancient china, india, egypt, mesopotamia and greece. But it wasn't really until the thirteenth century in china and the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries in europe that it became widespread. Brandy distilled from wine was first spirit produced in large quantities in europe. And then there were whiskey, gin, vodka and others that followed.