Local Fact of the Day: the Fife abbey in whisky’s first record 🥃

The ruins of Lindores Abbey near Newburgh hold a remarkable place in Scotland’s whisky story. National Records of Scotland says the first recorded mention of whisky appears in the Exchequer Roll of 1494. The entry records eight bolls of malt being supplied to Friar John Cor of Lindores Abbey, on the king’s orders, to make “aqua vitae”—the water of life. 🥃 Have you visited? Vote Yes or No below. Sources: National Records of Scotland — Exchequer Records https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/learning-and-events/research-guides/exchequer-records/ Scotland.org — Whisky in Scotland https://www.scotland.org/about-scotland/food-and-drink/whisky Historic Environment Scotland — Lindores Abbey, scheduled monument SM836 https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505%3A300%3A%3A%3A%3A%3AVIEWTYPE%2CVIEWREF%3Adesignation%2CSM836 Photograph: James Allan · CC BY-SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LindoresAbbey.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Original photograph shown without edits.