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What happened to Maryland’s Hunter Rye?

Posted on: January 9, 2023Aging Techniques , American whiskey , Blends , Canadian Whisky , Distillation , History , Maryland Rye , Pre-Prohibition , Production , rectifiers , Reference , Rye , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts
What happened to Maryland’s Hunter Rye?

Once one of the most popular brands of rye whiskey in the country, if not the world, Hunter Rye Whiskey, was a product of Maryland. The brand was first introduced […]

What is Rock and Rye?

Posted on: January 1, 2023American whiskey , History , Pennsylvania rye whiskey , Prohibition , rectifiers , Rye , sugar , Whiskey Facts , Whiskey laws and regulations
What is Rock and Rye?

What is Rock & Rye? Simply put, it is a rectified rye whiskey. Some Pennsylvanians may remember Rock & Rye from our childhoods as a medicinal treatment for a cold […]

What Should a “Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey” Category Look Like Today?

Posted on: November 10, 2022November 10, 2022American whiskey , Pre-Prohibition , Production , Prohibition , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts
What Should a “Pennsylvania Rye Whiskey” Category Look Like Today?

This has been an ongoing debate for a while now…even if it should have been a debate that took place in the 1930s. (Hindsight is 20/20 they say…) The question […]

The Halloween Tragedy that Relocated a Distillery  

Posted on: October 31, 2022Distilleries , Halloween , History , Pennsylvania rye whiskey , Pre-Prohibition , Prohibition , Reference , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts
The Halloween Tragedy that Relocated a Distillery  

On Halloween night, just outside Connellsville, Pennsylvania, a man was violently murdered for the gold in his pockets. Mystery surrounded the event, and for years the townspeople spun tales and […]

How Canada Quietly Changed the American Whiskey Drinker’s Palate

Posted on: October 21, 2022October 21, 2022Canadian Whisky , History , Prohibition , Reference , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts , Whiskey Trust
How Canada Quietly Changed the American Whiskey Drinker’s Palate

The last few weeks have been spent trying to find my way back onto social media platforms. I was kicked out on October 1st when I crossed our northern international […]

The Old Monocacy Creek and Her Distilleries

Posted on: September 30, 2022November 18, 2022History , Pennsylvania rye whiskey , Pre-Prohibition , Reference , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts
The Old Monocacy Creek and Her Distilleries

I was recently asked about distilleries that would have once existed in a specific area of eastern Pennsylvania. Why not, right? It seemed a good time to post about a […]

Where Did All Those Whiskey Terms Come From?

Posted on: September 11, 2022November 8, 2022advertising , American whiskey , Bourbon , History , Reference , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts
Where Did All Those Whiskey Terms Come From?

I have been thinking a lot lately about labeling terms for whiskey that we take for granted in the United States. Bottled-in bond, straight whiskey, bourbon, pure rye, fine old […]

Do We Romanticize Pre-Prohibition Whiskey?

Posted on: August 8, 2022September 22, 2022American whiskey , History , Prohibition , Reference , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts
Do We Romanticize Pre-Prohibition Whiskey?

This question is inevitably asked whenever a discussion about pre-Prohibition American whiskeys comes up. Industry folks tend to be very skeptical about “the old methods.” Their doubts are understandable, though. […]

From 1925 to Repeal: How the Medicinal Whiskey Makers Changed Everything

Posted on: August 1, 2022November 14, 2022American whiskey , Bourbon , Distilleries , History , Pennsylvania rye whiskey , Production , Prohibition , Reference , Rye , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts , Whiskey laws and regulations
From 1925 to Repeal: How the Medicinal Whiskey Makers Changed Everything

We’ve discussed the early 1920s, so let’s address what came next. We tend to think of Prohibition as an era of bootlegging and speakeasies…A time between the old timey whiskey […]

The Early Years of Prohibition: The Volstead Act and the “Band-Aid Legislation” That Followed

Posted on: July 28, 2022September 23, 2022American whiskey , concentration warehouses , History , Uncategorized , Whiskey Facts , Whiskey laws and regulations
The Early Years of Prohibition: The Volstead Act and the “Band-Aid Legislation” That Followed

What happened within the distilling industry during the early years of Prohibition? In short, massive upheaval and a lot of confusion. The temperance groups that pushed for National Prohibition did […]

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