This agency eventually became part of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Everyone seemed to have it out for the distillers. Tennessee enforced statewide Prohibition in 1910. In the late 1800s, Irish whiskey distilleries began to add an 'e' to the spelling of "whisky" to distinguish themselves from their competitors making scotch, and Jameson Irish Whiskey was certainly one to follow suit. One man whose name has certainly not been forgotten was the notorious preacher, Elijah Craig, who arrived in Kentucky in 1786 and was making whiskey three years later. Drinking was still legal in some areas of the country--but not for too very much longer. 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. Whiskey had great value during the Civil War. Tennessee whiskey must be made in Tennessee, while bourbon can be produced anywhere in the United States. Fact was, the farther away from the coast people traveled, the more expensive it was for them to make rum from imported molasses; in reaction, more people turned to whiskey for solace. It has no interest apart from the church. The Ripy brothers opened a distillery in 1905 that would later be known as the Wild Turkey Distillery. After watching people in Saghetti Westerns and Civil War Documentaries shoot whiskey like it was nothing, I was wondering about the strength of alcohol in the 19th century. Felix graf von Luckner, a visitor to America during Prohibition, painted a marvelous scene of the effects of the experiment in his book, Seeteuful erebert America, 1928: Prohibition has created a new, universally respected, a well-beloved, and a very profitable occupation, that of the bootlegger who takes care of the importation of the forbidden liquor. But, as we well know, if the public wants whiskey they shall jolly well have it, and the people who profited most from this very high tax were none other than the moonshiners. It is what its name indicates--a League. April 30, 1803: Jefferson buys Louisiana from France, doubling the size of the country. Most of them didnt linger long to mingle with the settlers on the coast--they had left Ulster to go west and go west they did. Furthermore, we can track the creation of bourbon and Tennessee whiskey back to their very roots--a rare opportunity when the subject is food or drink. Therefore, if we want to know who first produced bourbon whiskey as we know it, sour mash must enter the picture. States reacted to the prohibition with varying degrees of complicity. Grants actions in this sordid affair can be interpreted in several ways: Grant was trying to help out some old friends; he was afraid that his alleged affair with Sylph would be revealed; or members of Grants family--or maybe even Grant himself--was implicated in the Whiskey Ring. Just over two years later, on January 17, 1920, after the Volstead Act that enabled the National Prohibition Law, had been passed by 287 votes to 100, the nation was officially dry. Here again, the whiskey business contributed to the war effort by keeping cattle and pigs well fed when food for the general populace was at a premium. Skirmishes continued between whiskey-makers and the tax collectors and resulted in a few revenue agents being tarred and feathered and others terrorized into handing over their excise books to the delinquent taxpayers, but the revolt didnt really come to a head until 1794. During the post-war period, the distillers were busy either going broke or going for broke. 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. Its easy to see that national prohibition was inevitable sooner or later. The log was then stood upright and filled from the top with fermented mash. No one knows the answer. In fact, although pot stills were used by most of the legitimate distillers, some poorer folk were still running it on the log. This was a backwoods method of distillation that seems rather convoluted--but it worked. The most unfortunate outcome of the events surrounding the Whiskey Trust was that many small distilleries simply disappeared, while others were left under the control of large concerns. None, however, were as successful as Aenaes Coffey, who, in 1831, patented his perfected continuous still in Britain. Frederick and Philip Stitzel built their first distillery in Louisville in 1872. 23 gallons of industrial alcohol were required in the manufacture of a Jeep. J. Bourbon was becoming a little more sophisticated. . (This time period remained in effect until the Forand Act of 1958 increased it to 20 years.) Oh, the guys in Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia werent too pleased about the taxes either--there were skirmishes and demonstrations, and tax collectors were burned in effigy--but it seems to have boiled down to Washington choosing to quell one area to set an example for the rest of the country. During the months leading up to Repeal, speculation was rife about how the liquor industry would handle the expected new business. The country drank and drank, hardly knowing what was in the glass, everyone was out to achieve the high of all highs, and no one cared much how they did it. 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. The corn question is relatively easy: Since corn was the predominant grain within the state, the majority of distillers in Kentucky most likely used corn to make their whiskey. In this same speech Lincoln stated his belief that people would be more likely to stop drinking if, instead of being preached to about the evils of alcohol, they were shown examples of how sobriety would enhance their lives. alcohol. This was, after all, the first time that Washington had ever enforced federal law in the United States, and in order to persuade men to fight their fellow countrymen, Washington needed to prove he was a strong leader. Not content with that destruction, Carry Nation then set fire to the contents. in the manufacture of rubber, antifreeze, tetraethyl lead (used in the production of aviation gasoline), rayon for parachutes, and ether, among other things. And the American whiskey distillers took note. 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. The still-popular Lairds Applejack can trace its roots to Scotsman William Laird, most probably a whisky distiller, and most definitely from the Highlands of Scotland. Even though some documents pertaining to the case were stolen (allegedly by a man in the employ of Grant himself), Babcock was indicted. Whiskey was rationed during the war, and some brands were discontinued. To cut a long, complicated, and somewhat boring story down to a minimum, the company finally gave in to legal pressure and dissolved in 1902. The whiskey man noticed an improvement in his liquor, figured out what had happened, and from that day forth charred barrels were preferred by whiskey-makers. The Trust had effective ways of dealing with these offenders and with those who wanted to remain independent--they destroyed their distilleries. But 21 years had passed since Prohibition had taken such wonderful, big-bodied, rich, flavorful whiskeys away from the public. The government did allow a couple of distillation holidays toward the end of the war, but it would be the late 1940s to early 1950s before most distilleries were once again up and running full force with a decent supply of aged whiskey on hand. 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 1893, one of the most colorful characters ever to grace the whiskey industry, Julius Pappy Van Winkle, entered the whiskey business as a salesman for W. L. Weller and Son. The scene and the amounts are merely hypothetical, but it gives you a rough idea of why the farmers had empty pockets. The distillery operated for a few years, but Hope was shattered and forced to close when all of the capital was spent. His son, another T. W. Samuels, took over operations after Leslies death and ran it until 1943. Bourbon whiskey is America's native spirit. Bushmills is the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world. Owsley Brown (Brown-Forman), Frank Thompson (Glenmore), and a group of other concerned distillers met with attorneys from the Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association in Washington, D.C. Their aim was to unite the entire distilled spirits industry, write a code of conduct (it was actually drafted by Harris William of the Department of Agriculture) that would be acceptable to all, and convince everyone to sign it. In the 1790s American distilled spirits (whiskey, gin, rye, bourbon, etc.) And although Grant allowed Babcock to return to his job at the White House, officials made sure that he was replaced just a few days later. However, many of the residents of these states sided with the Confederate cause--states rights. However, the treasury was not to be deterred. Barley was also grown in these states, and it was familiar to the farmers and distillers. 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. (America was mainly a rye whiskey country until the early-1800s.) During this time, the liquor was kept under governmental supervision in bonded warehouses. 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. 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. Methyl alcohol has a direct affect on the optic nerve, and as little as one ounce has been known to cause death. There are three recipes for making imitation Old Bourbon in Stephens book, one calls for 20 gallons of proof spirit (neutral spirits diluted to 100? The most avid of these budding aficionadas and aficionados worked at learning about their drinks. Lincoln himself implied that he believed that the injuries were a direct result of the use of liquor--a bad thing. 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. 60During the 1800's, many ventured west in search of a new frontier. 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.. 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? Did They Have Whiskey In The 1800S? During the dry years, Seagram had used the same name in Canada, but American bootleggers sold an inferior whiskey that they called Golden Wedding, and thus the public was still very aware of the name. When the Pennsylvanians arrived in Kentucky, they were met by other masters of the still who had preceded them by a couple of decades and started some new whiskey-making traditions. After news of the occurrence reached the ears of similar-minded women around the country, over 50,000 promoters of temperance followed suit. 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. They were shipping whiskey to all sorts of colorful Western towns--Laramie, Tombstone, Dodge City--but it wasnt always too good; much was completely unaged and cut with water. All whiskeys were, once again, whiskeys--some were blended, and some were straight--but the label had to declare which type was in the bottle. Captain James Thorpe, a missionary in Virginia at that time, wrote to friends in London that he had learned to make a drink from Indian corn that was so good, he sometimes chose it over English beer. Weak homebrew beer (typically around 1 to 2% ABV) was the closest thing to potable water in european (and colonial) homes since medieval times. Follow the American Whiskey Trail and the Distilled Spirits Council on Twitter! It was too much for the industry to bear. But them as didnt would bring their grain to them as did and have it made into whiskey. And dont think they didnt complain. Jack Daniels No. The mail-order business continued, but with not nearly as much spirit as before. So who was the first whiskey man in Kentucky? Some bootleggers took a shortcut and produced highly toxic methyl or wood alcohol instead of ethyl (beverage) alcohol. They had the right idea, and if they just could have waited another 50 years or so, they might have made a fortune. Chevalier Whiskey Bottle, Brown 1800's Whiskey Bottle, Root Beer Color Antique Collectible Bottle gotRUSTandMORE (2,268) $50.00 Rare antique 1870s brown 8 sided whiskey bottle glorydaysephemera (98) $42.49 $49.99 (15% off) Hudson Bay Whiskey Bottle, Pro Pelle Cutem, Vintage Bottle, Amber Bottle, Barware, Scotch, England, For Decorative Use Only Rye, another European grain, was a hardy crop that took root and fared well almost immediately in the middle colonies, and since the Europeans were accustomed to working with rye grain, they turned to it as the next best thing to barley. Those choosing to give up all forms of booze had their names marked in the register with a T for Total--they were the worlds first tee-totalers. Interestingly, the Redemption Website contradicts this information by listing that only 600 bottles were produced. Elijah Pepper (James E. Pepper and Old Crow Bourbons) settled in Old Pepper Springs, Kentucky, in 1776. When a movie cowboy orders three fingers of red-eye (although a dictionary will tell you that red-eye is cheap whiskey), he is actually demanding the good stuff--it dont get red until its aged. As the U.S. population grew and the 1800's progressed, we see a steady rise in the consumption of American distilled spirits. 2020 Distilled Spirits Council of the United States | Equal Opportunity Employer | Distilled Spirits Council. The company bought the Old Fitzgerald brand name*by 1933 veach in 1933 and went on to become part of United Distillers in the 1980s. During the war, American distilleries were enlisted to produce industrial alcohol for the war effort, and once again the whiskey supplies began to dwindle. Distillers throughout the country were vexed about these new taxes, but nowhere did their anger turn into violent revolution as universally as in Pennsylvania. Their company would later merge with the Weller company and become known as Stitzel-Weller. McDonald was somewhat of an old pal of the Presidents, having been recommended for his position by more than a couple of Julia Grants familys friends. Washingtons written proclamation on the Whiskey Rebellion, August 7, 1794, gives us his views on the uprising. We should take time here to understand exactly what these new taxes meant to the farmer-distillers of the time--these guys didnt have any cash. This is the all-important filtration system, in which whiskey is dripped, through a minimum of 10 feet of sugar-maple charcoal before it is put in barrels for aging. 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. The first cotton mill in America had opened in 1789, and when America signed a treaty with Spain in 1795, the Mississippi River became the old man whose back would carry goods for sale or trade with no hindrance from the Iberians. 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? What a pleasant surprise on Rainey Street. It is estimated that, although relatively little wine or beer was poured during Prohibition, consumption of the hard stuff actually increased by more than 15 percent per person. Around the turn of the century, most saloons were unruly places that served liquor, wine, and beer to almost anyone--young or old, sober or drunk, morning, noon, or night. Less than 10 years later, Carry married David Nation, a lawyer and minister of the Christian church who eventually divorced her because of her slightly insane ways of demonstrating her distaste for alcohol. Not that she hated only alcohol, mind you, Carry also hated sex, tobacco, and Teddy Roosevelt. At the turn of the century, in Britain, blended Scotches were the cause of much controversy when single malt Scotch producers sued certain retailers of blended Scotch for selling an article not of the nature and substance demanded. Blended Scotch, they said, was a silent spirit, whereas a pure malt went down singing hymns. The Distillers Company (a group of blended Scotch producers) fought back, claiming that because single malts contained many more impurities (flavor-giving congeners) than blends, theirs was the purer spirit. And these were not the bygone days when men were the sole decision makers, by this time women, too, had buying power--and they were discriminating consumers. After that time, surveyors and prospectors offered land for sale at very reasonable prices to pioneers heading west. A Few Other Whiskey Men Who Appeared in Kentucky Before 1800, All of these families helped bring the tradition of American whiskey-making into the nineteenth and right through to the twentieth century. After the companys 1934 fiscal year didnt turn out to be as profitable as predicted, its president, Owsley Brown, did the honorable thing and offered half of his stock to his disappointed investors in lieu of a dividend. Whiskey at the Close of the Twentieth Century. However, much whiskey was being sold in bulk to rectifiers and bottlers of the time, and the problem of unscrupulous wholesalers (and retailers) adulterating good whiskey just had to be tackled. 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. One of the first acts to upset the American drinker, designed to raise money for the crown, was the taxation of the sugar, molasses, and rum being imported *from the any of the colonies or plantations in America, not in the possession of or under the dominion of his Majesty. Although not mentioned by name, the tax was directed specifically at the main competition for British traders in the Caribbean--the merchants of French West Indies. The advantage of this new type of packaging was that the potable became more portable. Maybe as a matter of routine, distillers who invested in used cooperage would set fire to the interior of the barrel to rid it of any lingering odors or dirt, and once again, at some point, charred barrels were recognized as having a good effect on whiskey. However, European Vitis vinifera grapevines didnt fare well on the East Coast. A Treatise on the Manufacture, Imitation, Adulteration, and Reduction of Foreign Wines, Brandies, Gins, Rums, Etc. The book serves as an indication that a number of cheap whiskeys were being produced just before and (in larger quantities) after the Civil War. They were not, however, the only group of immigrants to have a major impact on the whiskey industry, the Germans who settled in Pennsylvania and became known as the Pennsylvanian Dutch were also well versed with the alembic, and by 1775, there were just as many Germans here as Scots-Irish. In 1942 they introduced Wild Turkey bourbon to the marketplace. Schenley, under the guidance of its owner, Lewis Rosenstiel, had acquired a number of distilleries, brand names, and quite a stock of whiskey during Prohibition. In fact, according to Mike Veach, archivist at United Distillers, it is more probable that Elijah Craigs name was used to fight the prohibition movement in the late nineteenth century simply because he was a Baptist minister. Rates were based on the alcoholic strength of the product, spirits made from home-grown products were taxed less than those made from imported goods (rum, made from imported molasses, therefore, was more-heavily taxed than whiskey), and an annual tax was levied on each still, dependent on its capacity. The company had $100,000 in capital and bought 100 acres of Louisville land where they built a huge distillery. We do know that he was a whiskey distiller in the late eighteenth century, and that his whiskey was probably known as Kentucky whiskey or maybe even bourbon, but theres no real evidence to prove that he was the first person to make bourbon. Decorative glass and ceramic bottles containing whiskey were a novelty that had been around since the early 1800s. No--it didnt contain neutral spirits or added flavorings or colorings. The whiskey from the middle colonies eventually became known as Monongahela or Pennsylvania or Maryland whiskey, named for its various locations, not the grain used to make it. Here are the 12 best bourbon whiskey brands you should be drinking in 2023. . In the latter part of the eighteenth century, both John Ritchie and Elijah Craig were shipping whiskey on flatboats to New Orleans, and they probably werent the only ones. Their mission was to fight for the death of the saloon. In short, where America has been, so has American whiskey--and where whiskey has traveled, so have Americans been influenced by its presence. The Volstead Act all but destroyed many of the legitimate whiskey distilleries. One of his first acts was to convince Congress to grant money to investigate the alleged corruption within the Internal Revenue Service. 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. And although it is possible that some early settlers built their own from imported raw materials, most were probably imported from Europe. 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. 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. For some reason, everyone seems to want to know the name of the very first person to make bourbon. 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. Whatever his product actually was, however, was strong enough to get a whole bunch of native Americans so drunk that they scalped and killed him in 1622. World Class 'Sipping' Single Malt Whiskies Under $100, Ranked. 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. Leslie Samuels (Makers Mark) reopened his Deatsville distillery in 1933, and sold T. W. Samuels bourbon (named for the first Samuels to open a commercial distillery). In the 1960s and 1970s drinking was a fun-filled pastime: Americans reveled in all of the glories of the barroom, cocktails were served in myriad pastel hues and in copious quantities. Nobody stopped making bourbon, rye, or Tennessee whiskey simply because sales werent as good as expected; they dealt with the situation as best they could. After trading the slaves, gold, and pepper in Barbados, the ship returned to Rhode Island carrying 55 hogsheads of molasses, 3 hogsheads of sugar, and over 400 in bills of exchange. Colony did a very thorough job and accumulated enough data to place John McDonald (the St. Louis-based superintendent of the Internal Revenue) at the head of the Whiskey Ring. The Sassenach Blended Scotch Whisky. But these enterprising farmer-distillers, much like the earlier distillers of plums and berries, were distilling whiskey more or less for themselves and neighbors. Well, something was done, and when the law was enforced in 1907, all grain spirits other than straight whiskey had to be labeled compound, imitation, or blended. Consumers interpreted this language to mean that the only true whiskey was straight whiskey, and this wasnt really fair to the producers of blended products, so when Taft took office in 1909, he decided to establish further standards of identity and clarify the definition. . One of the women who had joined the Womens Crusade and was president of the WTCU. The other two formulas use less straight whiskey but add flavorings such as tinctures of cloves and allspice. They were sold in a small glass which normally held a gill (4 ounces) and cost 5 cents. Some depicted Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Grover Cleveland, and Carry Nation, while others pictured tableaux, such as a jockey on horseback or a Continental soldier. Cabin Still and Kentucky Tavern whiskeys were both trademarked in 1903. Thus, he teamed up with Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle, and together they lobbied for the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897.. The company was acquired by the Jim Beam Brands Company in the 1980s. Back in the mid-1800s, the Crown began taxing barley a strategic way to indirectly tax the single-malt whiskey (whiskey that . Its clear that the whiskey business had its problems: The swingers of the twenties preferred gin to whiskey; post-Prohibition whiskey drinkers got used to blended whiskeys; and then the demon rum reared its head during World War II. Most rectifiers were--and are--reputable wholesalers who bought whiskey from different distilleries (or a selection of casks from just one distillery) and mingled them together to arrive at a consistent product they could call their own. Pardons were offered to anyone who agreed to comply with the law henceforth. And although the Governor of New Yorks office wasnt mentioned in the telegram, it is said that, even during the dry years, Franklin D. Roosevelt was wont to serve cocktails from his desk every afternoon at four. And while they had the governments attention, the distillers took the opportunity to have them look at the fact that paying taxes on unaged whiskey, a product that couldnt yet be sold, was another problem that should be dealt with. In a personal recollection of a meeting between Lincoln and Douglas in 1854, James S. Ewing referred to a decanter of red liquor, red liquor being a term for bourbon that would become widely used by the end of that century. The Stitzel distillery joined forces with the Weller company to form Stitzel-Weller. Many proofs were bottled, including 113 proof, 121 proof, 122 proof, 123 proof, and 127 proof. The rum business in the United States was doomed, but its demise created plenty of room for the up and coming whiskey industry. 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. That's 80 percent alcohol for those new to this game. And by this time, aged whiskey was preferred by far over the raw spirit that had been acceptable some 60 years previous. Other major changes that affected the whiskey industry in the early 1800s included the actions of that marvelous gourmet, President Thomas Jefferson, who, in 1802, repealed the excise tax that had caused the Whiskey Rebellion and thereby lightened the financial load on the distillers. The theory that whiskey improved with age was proved once a whiskey-maker tasted his product after its journey downriver to New Orleans. Most settlers from Maryland and Pennsylvania started their trip to Kentucky in Pittsburgh and floated down the Ohio River on flatboats into Kentucky. When Grant was elected U.S. president in 1868, the whole countrys relief was palpable. Two bottles were sold in Glasgow in 2010, one to a US-based collector and one to a UK-based investor. Was this a blended whiskey? Other such organizations within the industry existed in various parts of the country around this same time, but the distilling industry in Peoria, having started with one distillery in 1844, had actually outgrown its counterpart in Kentucky by 1880. 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. 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 . 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