Dennis J. Pogue has written the definitive book on this topic, Founding Spirits: George Washington and the Beginnings of the American Whiskey Industry (Harbour Books, 2011). Pogue has toiled many years at Mount Vernon, and is uniquely positioned to comment on Washington’s distillery.Continue readingA Book on and Videos of George Washington’s Distillery at Mount Vernon
Over at A Cook Walks Into a Bar, we see a very nice post on a visit to the Copper Fox Distillery of Sperryville, Virginia. This distillery makes the Wasmund’s brand of whiskeys, which include both aged and unaged barleyContinue reading5/2010 A Visit to the Copper Fox Distillery
It is 10:21 AM in Clermont, Kentucky, a sparsely populated non-town 27 miles southeast of Louisville, and I am sipping 135 proof bourbon fresh from the still. It is water-clear, and tastes of sweet corn and spicy rye. When IContinue reading10/2008 The Kentucky Bourbon Festival