2006-10-22 10:42:34 · 6 answers · asked by gentlgodis 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
It comes from the fact that when you distill something, the alcohol is the first thing to evaporate and disappear, poof, gone to the sky, there and not there, existing but impalpable... So alcohol was regarded as close to the human spirit in nature.
So, in the middle ages, brandy was known as "spirit of wine". In time, all distilled drinks were known as "spirits", and the term came to apply to all alcoholic beverages.
2006-10-22 13:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in the middle ages, when people got drunk, they were said to have a "spirit" in them from the alcohol.People actually believed they were possessed when they were drunk. Hence, they referred to alcohol as "spirits"
2006-10-23 08:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by Me! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't call it spirts they call it spirits
2006-10-23 01:10:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because once you start drinking, you slowly become possessed by something that is not you...you become someone or something else...
2006-10-23 19:17:51 · answer #4 · answered by angeleyes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it makes you frisky or spirited.
2006-10-22 17:53:44 · answer #5 · answered by avery 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Cause if you drink enough, you start seeing ghosts!
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2006-10-22 17:49:34 · answer #6 · answered by malangst 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋