Another liquor was far easier and much less expensive to produce, and it was about to become one of the first industries in America. As the name implies, Old Grand-Dad's 114 is indeed 114 proof. It goes just as fast and just as far as public sentiment of the church will permit. Therefore, if we want to know who first produced bourbon whiskey as we know it, sour mash must enter the picture. In 1904, the Cascade Distillery (George A. Dickel) was enlarged, making it the largest distillery in the whole of Tennessee at that time. None, however, were as successful as Aenaes Coffey, who, in 1831, patented his perfected continuous still in Britain. Other accounts say that Wattie Boone, a relative of Daniels, and a certain Stephen Ritchie both made whiskey in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1776, and this is probably accurate. And Grant was returned to office in 1872. This act stipulated that bonded whiskey must be: made at one distillery in one batch; aged for at least four years in warehouses supervised by the government, and bottled at 100? Tennessee whiskey must be made in Tennessee, while bourbon can be produced anywhere in the United States. Rye Whiskey that dates back to the 1800s, around the time when saloons, veiled as coffee houses, began lining the streets of New Orleans. was the most consumed alcoholic liquor. In 1868 Congress passed a bill that reduced the excise tax to 50 per gallon, required a tax stamp to be put on all American-made spirits, and gave distillers a grace period--known as the bonding period--of one year before having to pay taxes on liquor that was aging. The origins of whiskey can be traced back to the Medieval monks of both Ireland and Scotland, but now, those two countries make their own distinctive styles of their native spirit. The Confederacy, therefore, declared prohibition, on a state to state basis, and tried to buy up all the available whiskey to use as medicine, for Navy rations, and in certain instances, for soldiers who needed a medicinal boost. First, they made beer. proof) in 1825 was seven gallons per person over the age of 15. Jack Daniel opened his Tennessee distillery in 1866. A good number of bars were no more than dens of iniquity where one could buy drugs, consort with prostitutes, hire strong-armed boys to do a little dirty work, or bribe voters with a few shots of whiskey. Oscar Pepper (James E. Pepper and Old Crow Bourbons) built the Old Oscar Pepper Distillery in 1838. Grants magnificent military might, however, didnt prepare him for the presidency. This passage shows the fallacy of the position taken by some agitators that even though wine was used authoritatively in Bible times, it was home-made wine only, and not bought and sold.. Many of the larger distilleries built massive continuous stills between 1865 and 1900; whiskey was becoming big business, and continuous stills were more economical. Just over six months later, when Prohibition was repealed, the beer, wine, and spirits industries had to devise codes of their own. In modern terms, those seven gallons are the equivalent of 1.7 bottles of a standard 80-proof liquor per person, per weeknearly 90 bottles a year for every adult in the nation, even with. Everyone knows this, even the powers of the government. American whiskey started its life as a raw, unaged spirit that had, as its main attribute, the power to spur the courage of the first colonists. Lincolns secretary, John Hay, when recording the 1863 arrival of the Sons of Temperance at the White House, noted that the group blamed the defeats of Union troops on intemperance among the soldiers. And that is exactly what she did. Therefore, to find the creator of bourbon, we must for the character most likely to have put them all together. All sorts of ploys were used to make this rotgut at least look good. He made whiskey using corn as the predominant grain, he insisted on aging it in charred casks, and he used a sour-mash starter. A paper, written in 1993 by Mervel V. Hanes, M.D. We are tremendously proud to release the first known Bottled in Bond Bourbon produced in Maryland since prohibition on March 4th, 2023 at the distillery. Whiskey was most often called "firewater" in the Wild West. Finally, small-batch whiskey, single-barrel whiskey, and wheated bourbon, were getting their fair share of attention. He certainly wasnt the first to take out his frustrations on whiskey-producers, just four years earlier Britain had introduced a prohibitive tax on Highland stills in Scotland and declared that the whisky produced there couldnt be distributed outside the Highland region. The U.S. population in 1909 was about 90.5 million; therefore, if the Leagues statistics were accurate, over 45 percent of the country already was dry in 1910. Distillers throughout the country were vexed about these new taxes, but nowhere did their anger turn into violent revolution as universally as in Pennsylvania. During the post-war period, the distillers were busy either going broke or going for broke. The mostly Lutheran and Calvinist Germans had been victims of religious persecution in their homeland and were of hardy stock--perfect people to help form a new nation and build a whiskey industry. Heres an update of a few significant people and events in the years between 1860 and 1900: Though the whiskey industry may have started on a small scale, during the years following the Civil War it developed into a form of commerce in which a substantial amount of money was to be made--major distilleries had been founded, whiskey families had staked their claims, and the foundations for many a whiskey empire had been laid. It was statewide in some instances, and under various forms of local option (towns, counties, municipalities, or city districts having the right to legislate and enforce prohibition) in others. Carson states that one colonel from Georgia was actually making whiskey himself--prohibition be damned. Smart marketing has been around for millennia--what could be better than declaring a good Christian as the inventor of bourbon when the distillers had to argue against forces that quoted the Bible to further their cause? The manufacture of rum continued to be big business in America right through until 1808 when the U.S. prohibited the importation of slaves from Africa. In the 1790s American distilled spirits (whiskey, gin, rye, bourbon, etc.) They might have been making a decent living, but many, indeed, most transactions at that time were conducted by barter. Even so, Grant, at this point, made it clear that he wanted to clear up the whole mess and prosecute whoever was responsible for stealing the money. They settled in western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, western Virginia, and the western parts of North and South Carolina. World Class 'Sipping' Single Malt Whiskies Under $100, Ranked. Its doubtful. March 4, 1801: Thomas Jefferson takes his seat as the third U.S. president, where he will stay until 1809. Horrible stories about people going blind after drinking bootleg liquor are true. Daniel Weller (W. L. Weller Bourbon) floated into Bardstown on a flatboat in 1794. Whiskeygate--the Tale of the Infamous Whiskey Ring. When they arrived, they needed whiskey, and distillers rushed to meet the demand. When Reconstruction began, President Andrew Johnson faced huge problems. According to most reports, Sylph was a woman said to have had an extra-marital affair with Grant, and she was a woman who had pestered him ever since. Starting in the mid-1600s, sugar, and molasses were exported from the West Indies to New England where the colonists made their very own variety of rum. Not all Northerners believed that their soldiers were drinking more than the Southern troops. Consequently, some at least were repeatedly looking for new land to farm. But these people still had the same amount of money to spend. But these enterprising farmer-distillers, much like the earlier distillers of plums and berries, were distilling whiskey more or less for themselves and neighbors. In short, where America has been, so has American whiskey--and where whiskey has traveled, so have Americans been influenced by its presence. He claimed that the ringleaders had encouraged the spirit of opposition by misrepresentation of the laws calculated to render them odious, and had sought to deter those who might be so disposed from accepting offices through fear of public resentment and of injury to person and property, and to compel those who had accepted such offices by actual violence to surrender or forbear the execution of them. He went on to say that the distillers had been inflicting cruel and humiliating punishments upon private citizens for . Heres what was happening to the brand names at this time: Of Hymns To Be Sung and Axes To Be Wielded. These people had a long history of moving (or being moved) to new lands, coping with hardships, battling adversity, and establishing thriving communities. Only time in wood gives it color, and only time in charred wood results in the crimson-hued tint that is peculiar to bourbon. And the law had won. There is no doubt that liquor was being abused, and one fellow, George Garvin Brown, creator of the Old Forester brand and a founder member of the Wine and Spirits Association (W S A), did take steps to counter the prohibition movement. Lincoln himself implied that he believed that the injuries were a direct result of the use of liquor--a bad thing. Not content with that destruction, Carry Nation then set fire to the contents. I do not believe that men can be legislated into angels--even red-nosed angels. Henry Watterson, owner and editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, wrote those words in 1913. The company was acquired by the Jim Beam Brands Company in the 1980s. Well, that makes sense, but although officers were allowed to buy whiskey, enlisted men had to rely on rations as their legitimate source of liquor. And Washington did, indeed, make whiskey. Liquor in the 18th century: History of Distilled Spirits. . Others--those who continued to defy the tax collectors--had their property plundered, their backs lashed, and were carted off to collection centers to settle their debts. Here, in very simple terms, is how the scam worked: Sometime around 1870, government agents, charged with keeping an eye on how much whiskey was being made, arranged to ignore a certain percentage of the distillate in return for cash in the amount of roughly half the money the distillery would have paid in taxes. Somewhere, close to the top of the log or in the lid itself, must have been a hole fitted with the copper pipe that carried live steam into the still from a nearby kettle. Some of them filtered the whiskey they purchased in bulk in order to rectify it, taking out some impurities and rendering the whiskey somewhat smoother. But imported European barley took a long time before it became acclimatized to its new home. However, those nineteenth-century temperance movements had been gaining momentum, and the whiskey industry was about to confront its most formidable enemy. Aside from having no cash, the distillers in western Pennsylvania were also exasperated because, when summoned to court to answer their charges, they had to make their way to Philadelphia. In 1913, the Webb Kenyon Interstate Liquor Act was passed, effectively preventing the traffic of liquor from wet to dry states. The Best Peated Single Malt Scotch Whisky, Blind Tasted And Ranked. We should mention, however, that some modern distillers go to great trouble to differentiate their various bottlings, either by using different recipes, and/or by selecting whiskeys that have developed particular styles during aging. Some bootleggers took a shortcut and produced highly toxic methyl or wood alcohol instead of ethyl (beverage) alcohol. According to William S. McFeely, author of Grant, A Biography, although both Grant and Babcock were confronted with this very damning evidence, Babcock insisted that the telegrams were about something other than the Whiskey Ring, and Grant sided with him. Oscar Pepper, in the 1800s. Indeed, not only was she a very attractive woman, she was also known as an effective speaker whose ways were softspoken and womanly.. (Many stories might never have met their deadlines if the hard-drinking journalists of yesteryear werent able to knock back a shot or two.) Not one to be sidetracked for long, Ms. Nation took to lecturing on the vaudeville circuit to raise money, and traveled to every state in the country, breaking up bars as she went. They were out to prevent accidents and to help those with a drinking problem take care of themselves. What they werent considering, of course, was that once the public grew accustomed to blended whiskey, chances were they would never return to the pure stuff. The other two formulas use less straight whiskey but add flavorings such as tinctures of cloves and allspice. The book is full of questions and answers on many different subjects, one of them being: Q: Why are water and wine casks charred on the inside? One thing was for sure--there would be major changes in the way the industry conducted itself. One of the women who had joined the Womens Crusade and was president of the WTCU. The fact was, at that time the public wouldnt buy whiskey that wasnt made in small, old-fashioned pot stills. Many proofs were bottled, including 113 proof, 121 proof, 122 proof, 123 proof, and 127 proof. The Tom Moore Distillery was reopened as the Barton Distillery after Prohibition; it was later taken over by Oscar Getz and is now owned by Barton Brands. Now he can instead buy his own car, and ride off for a weekend or a few days with his wife and children in the country or at the sea. Crockett also mentions a tradition of this era that was never properly re-established after Prohibition ended--the free lunch table. But still, no hard cash was changing hands. Those distillers whose whiskey had gained a good reputation started to give their product a name, and deserving of mention here is Oscar Pepper who, in 1838, built the Old Pepper Distillery, hired James Crow as master distiller, and marketed their whiskey as Old 1776--Born with the Republic. The name referred to Oscars father, Elijah, who settled in Kentucky in 1776 and made whiskey shortly thereafter; its one of the earliest references to whiskey men marketing their product. And many of the soldiers who had been dispatched to Pennsylvania, on hearing about the Bluegrass States fertile soil and sweet limestone water that were perfect for corn-growing and whiskey-making, decided to flee the army and settle in Kentucky. States reacted to the prohibition with varying degrees of complicity. At one point in 1791, a mob of over 5,000 men advanced on Pittsburgh threatening to burn down the whole city, but they were met by town officials who managed to dissuade them from their mission by promising to banish certain officials and plying the mob with food and, of course, whiskey. Some canny souls of the period between, say, 1800 and 1840, probably savvy distillers who managed to put two and two and two together and eventually arrive at six, must have noticed that, not only was this aged whiskey smoother than the raw product straight from the still, but also that the stuff that came from expensive brand new casks didnt have quite the finesse of that from the used casks that had been charred to clean them up. The sandwich was never eaten--but many drinks were sold. By the turn of the century, over 350,000 people had settled in Kentucky. As stated in an article in True West Magazine, the period's popular brands of U.S. whiskey included Thistle Dew, Old Crow, Hermitage, Old Kentucky, Old Reserve, Coronet, Log Cabin No. For some reason, everyone seems to want to know the name of the very first person to make bourbon. Indeed, for every 1,000 bushels of corn used to make alcohol, the leftover mash could feed 30 head of cattle and 15 pigs for 112 days, thus producing 1,000 pounds of beef and 240 pounds of pork. But it wasnt until the following year that Carry Nation actually wielded the hatchet that became her trademark when she destroyed a saloon in Wichita. The filthy saloons, the gin mills which formerly flourished on every corner and in which the laborer once drank off half his wages, have disappeared. And although it is possible that some early settlers built their own from imported raw materials, most were probably imported from Europe. John D. Rockefeller, Sr. had paved the way with Standard Oil and all it took after that was a few clever men in Peoria, Illinois. In 1874 more than 200,000 retailers sold liquor in the U.S., a whopping 120,000 more than just 10 years before. The locations include delicatessens, shoeshine parlors, barber shops, delivery agencies, paint stores, taxi drivers, moving van companies, and of course, newspapermens associations. By 1934, his company owned the George T. Stagg Distillery (Ancient Age) and the James E. Pepper Distillery (James E. Pepper whiskey) among others. Rumor had it that McDonald had helped Grant by making sure Sylph left him alone, and if the rumors were true, it was no wonder that Grant allied himself with McDonald. Follow the American Whiskey Trail and the Distilled Spirits Council on Twitter! In 1900, Ms. Nation gathered a group of supporters, rolled into a drugstore in Kansas (which was dry at the time), rolled out a cask of brandy, and promptly smashed it to smithereens with a sledgehammer. WhistlePig The Bhlden is aged for 21 years in American Oak ex-bourbon barrels and to give it that WhistlePig flair finished . No--it didnt contain neutral spirits or added flavorings or colorings. 84 Proof which pays homage to the year 1984 when the Montana State Men's . Old Grand-Dad 114. Babcock was finally brought to trial in 1876, and due in large part to testimony from Grant in the form of a deposition (Grant had offered to testify in person at the trial but was persuaded that Presidents just didnt do that sort of thing), he was acquitted of all crimes. The story of a fairly typical arrangement of the time is detailed in Nelson County Kentucky: A Pictorial History by Dixie Hibbs, a very knowledgeable Bardstown historian. The farmer-distillers made a more than adequate living by raising livestock, growing grain, and making rye whiskey that they could trade to fulfill their other needs. When the first immigrants arrived on this continent, their love for alcohol in almost any shape or form led to a chain of events that would culminate in the creation of distinctive American whiskeys. 21 By the 1870s, the temperance movement exerted great influence in American life and culture, as this example illustrates. During the year before his death in 1799, it has been estimated that he earned a considerable profit from his distillery, and had upwards of 150 gallons of whiskey left in storage. Even the whiskey bottles had to be made to new government standards that called for thinner glass and no unnecessary designs. By the turn of the century, total abstinence was the goal. December, 1933 saw an America with only about 20 million gallons of whiskey on hand (compared to the 60-some million gallons of surplus whiskey when Prohibition began). Indeed, Lincoln said just that; but he was not applauding the use and enjoyment of liquor. Rye whiskey had been born in Pennsylvania, and Kentucky was about to give birth to a whiskey that would become known as bourbon. Since the late 1700s when whiskey was first shipped down south, a number of Kentuckys whiskey makers had come to rely heavily on Southern states demand and market for their products. The views and opinions expressed in the following book chapters are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Distilled Spirits Council or its member companies. Instead, they would sell the entire batch of spirits and the resultant whiskey, although it wouldnt make you blind, was a far cry from the pure, bold red liquor that the whiskey men had fought for at the turn of the century. After taking office in 1869, the politics of Reconstruction plagued him, and his administration was beset by scandal after scandal. The first settlers imported some alcohol too--wines, brandy, and fortified wines such as Madeira, sack, and Canary. But they really wanted to become as self-sufficient as possible, and although imported wines and liquors have always held that if it comes from France, it must be good image, the self-sufficient Pilgrims and those who followed them soon started to make all kinds of drinks from the abundant native ingredients. Whiskeys made at this distillery include Very Old Barton, Ten High, Kentucky Gentleman, Colonel Lee, Tom Moore, and Barclays. It also stated that only straight whiskey could be bonded (although distillates other than whiskey--rum, for instance--that met the requirements could also be Bottled in Bond). The popularity of alcohol in Europe as a medicine was very high. This version is Barrel 2 and bottled at 97 Proof. The jugs most often were of the little brown jug how I love thee variety--glazed stoneware in sizes ranging from one to five gallons* 1 pint according to veach. This figure, of course, is somewhat difficult to comprehend until you learn that the same table estimates that, using the same criteria, in 1970, consumption was at 2.5 gallons. Also in 1935, the Austin Nichols company, previously concerned solely with the food business, took an interest in whiskey and other liquors. In 1791, George Washington approved an excise tax on liquor. His son, another T. W. Samuels, took over operations after Leslies death and ran it until 1943. The woman had a mission, but her ways were too radical even for the WTCU--they eventually rejected her, leaving her without financial support. Strangely enough, one of the major beneficiaries of World War II was the rum industry, the very enterprise that, in America, had fallen at the heels of the whiskey business some 150 years previous. The Confederate troops, on the other hand, didnt get their fair share of whiskey, not only due to their lack of hard cash, but also because the South couldnt afford to use what valuable grain there was to make such frivolous stuff as whiskey; people were wanting of the basic necessities just to exist. Fact is that the distillers needed to store their whiskey in tight or leakproof barrels, and at that time, tight barrels were used to store just about everything from water to molasses to linseed oil to tar. If they couldnt get the public to pay high prices for legitimate whiskey, they would have to reduce the tax and help the whiskey business back to its tax-paying feet. Even by 1939 when Charles H. Baker Jr.s excellent book, The Gentlemans Companion, was published, the author noted that vodka was unnecessary to medium or small bars.. The Reverend Elijah Craig, a Baptist minister, is often recognized as being the inventor of bourbon, but that claim is completely unsubstantiated. Old Fitzgerald whiskey started being marketed in Europe in 1904. Albert Stevens Crockett, historian for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, detailed some of the colorful antics that occurred at this bar in The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book. According to Patricia M. Rice, author of Altered States, in 1873, Eliza Jane Thompson, a woman with a passionate distaste for the drinking classes, led 70 women to drugstores and bars in her hometown of Hillsboro, Ohio, where they stood outside and sang hymns and prayed. Meanwhile, Seagram introduced its Five Crown and Seven Crown blended whiskeys to the American public, and they were an unmitigated success. Undeterred, they turned their talents to fermenting other fruits--and even vegetables. Interestingly, the Redemption Website contradicts this information by listing that only 600 bottles were produced. Was it a specific person on a specific date? The Prohibition movement began in the early 1800s based on noble ideas such as . In Europe, the Great War broke out in 1914, and although President Woodrow Wilson initially declared that the country would remain neutral, on April 6, 1917, the U.S. declared war on Germany. And whereas Grant had originally claimed to have been grievously betrayed by McDonald, he now said that McDonald was a reliable friend, and cited McDonalds friendship with Babcock as good enough reason to believe him innocent of the charges. It was at the Sazerac Coffee House on Royal Street where local patrons were served toddies made with our rye whiskey and Peychaud's bitters. Laird settled in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in 1698 and set about applying his knowledge of distillation to apples rather than barley malt. With the help of some newspapermen in St. Louis, Bristow was about to crack the ring wide open. However, the treasury was not to be deterred. Distilling wasnt merely a case of, Oh, I have some extra grain, might as well make some whiskey. It was a much bigger decision than that. The ploy seems to have had the desired effect. But Grant was about to have a change of heart that would rock his White House aides and change the outcome of the whole affair. To a large extent, it worked. But the 1791 tax on American whiskey was, of course, very unpopular among the farmer-distillers. Stills had been commonplace on Scottish farms since the mid-1500s, usually little more than barrel-size (or smaller) enclosed copper pots with a metal pipe that emerged from the top and coiled down to a receptacle that caught the condensed spirit. Wartime dance bands didnt just sing Rum and Coca Cola, they drank it, too. In modern terms, those seven gallons are the equivalent of 1.7 bottles of a standard 80-proof liquor per person, per week nearly 90 bottles a year for every adult in the nation. Taylor William Samuels (Makers Mark Bourbon) was operating a commercial distillery in Deatsville in 1844. Obviously the actors in these media outlets aren't actually drinking, but I am curious all the same. By 1786, the whiskey we now call bourbon was known as Kentucky or Western whiskey--just so people could distinguish it from Pennsylvania, Monongahela, or Maryland rye whiskey. For more information, please visit http://www.gazregan.com. Along with many other reputable distillers and rectifiers, Taylor was worried that the bad whiskey in the marketplace would reflect badly on the whole industry. Eventually, the distillers gave in to Washington. Further amendments to the law made it possible to actually distill whiskey (during distilling holidays) that would be used for medicinal purposes. appearing to be friends of the law and just to round out his argument, Washington claimed that many persons in the said western parts of Pennsylvania have at length been hardy enough to perpetrate acts which I am advised amount to treason. However, several historians hypothesize that one of the goals behind Washingtons rallying federal troops to quash the Whiskey Rebellion, was to see whether or not the troops would muster. As the U.S. population grew and the 1800's progressed, we see a steady rise in the consumption of American distilled spirits. While Presidents Johnson and Grant were going through their personal and political strifes, the excise tax that Lincoln had been forced to impose in 1862 had taken its toll on the whiskey industry. So who was the first whiskey man in Kentucky? Further north, the Pilgrims also were making beer, and according to John Hull Brown in his book, Early American Beverages, they werent above adding flavorings in the form of molasses, tree barks (spruce, birch, and sassafras were popular), and fruit and vegetables, such as apples and pumpkins, to their brews. 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