This course takes a look at the history of this unique spirit in order to reveal insights into a web of connections that span across time (Arab scholars in medieval Baghdad to modern global multinational corporations), geography (from the Highlands of Scotland to the cornfields of Kentucky), and social mores (from teetotalers pushing for Prohibition to the speakeasies that thwarted it!). Take an eclectic journey across time and space with a dram of an exquisite beverage.