Family New Year is approaching!
In every family, various light and strong drinks are already packed and await their hour.

The use of glass bottles with traffic jams in a few years has revolutionized the storage of all wines. These wines were very different from their modern tires. Descriptions of these wines are rare, but we know that Bordeaux wines were pink, not red; that Volne, the most elegant wine among modern Burgundy red wines, was pink almost until the end of the eighteenth century; that in Champagne from year to year no one knew what colour the wine would be. However, it was in Champagne that the next step in the history of wine production was made. As in many cool climatic zones, Champagne wines have always had a natural tendency to sparkle brightly. This sparkiness is the result of the action of temperature, which slows down the process of converting natural grape sugar into alcohol. The remains of sugar continue to roam slowly, while producing carbon dioxide.
Almost at the same time, another ancient secret was discovered - the miraculous properties of fungal mold "Botrytis". Wine makers in Tokai, Hungary, missed the usual time of harvesting berries due to negligence and were forced to make wine from berries that threatened to dry out in front of their eyes. And they got a wonderful wine with a new taste, a wonderful elixir, which was soon honored at the table of the French King Louis XIV.

If non-drinking Muslims were not obsessed with the idea of finding the elixir of life, we drinking Europeans might have learned nothing about whiskey, cognac, vodka and other distillation products that are so important in our lives. Alchemists of the East sought the elixir, and as a result invented the cube of propulsion. This useful invention is in
Europe, where at first the local doctors of the Faust naively followed the vows of their Eastern counterparts and also used the cube exclusively for scientific purposes. The alchemists suspected the existence of the "fifth essence" (in Latin "quintessence") in literally every second substance, and therefore the cube was all in a row. The experiments could have continued for a long time if there had been no wine there. Alchemists heated it to the temperature between the boiling points of alcohol and water. As a result, the alcohol came out in the form of steam and again gained a liquid form with a strength of about 60 degrees already in another vessel.
The elixir of life became a legend, and it was told to children for the night instead of a fairy tale.
In France, the Arabic invention originated mostly in the province of Sharrant, where with its help something similar to the current cognac was created. The charrants would have produced the erzac of their now famous drink, if some charrer Jacques de la Croix-Marron, who abused the alcohol of primary distillation, had not had a nightmare.
Shevelle dreamed that the devil himself had appeared for his soul and, in order to get what he wanted, threw Marron into the boil, but without success.
(I got to drink, shorter to the white, alkas) Then the devil ordered him to throw his caretaker into the burying "bath" again, and at that moment the swallower woke up in a cold sweat. After a bit of reflection, he shouted with a joyful cry, “Evrika!” He rushed to the exorcist, arguing that if the devil was able to get a human soul only after the second boiling, then the best juice from the wine can only be taken after the second exorcism. The liquid obtained as a result of double distillation was called eau-de-vie - "water of life".
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Well, and about vodka and Mendeleev you know everything yourself.

Happy New Year!! to