I bought myself a porcelain hip flask, and it got me thinking about the history of these ingenious devices. The flask is the descendant of the canteen and the pilgrim […]
Midleton Distillery -Old and New
Midleton Distillery is home to the whiskeys we will be tasting this Thursday at Nektar in New Hope. The distillery in use today is not the one founded in 1825 […]
Al Capone Went to Prison Today…
Did you know that today is the day that Al Capone went to prison? On this day in 1931, Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax […]
Whiskey Production Finally Rebounds to Pre-Prohibition Numbers…
It may seem like an enormous amount of whiskey is being produced in the United States right now. That may be true, but we’re only just catching up to production […]
Considering the Volstead Act in Congress 100 years Ago Today
Today in history, almost a hundred years ago, Prohibition was being considered in Congress. What was to become the Volstead Act, the bill was introduced in the House as H.R. […]