- Interesting things about the distillery:
- Expanded in 2023 and now makes about 2000 bottles a year
- Pot still only
- Uses Bloody Butcher corn
- Low yield, about 25% less
- A “Liberty Pole” was kind of like a banner posted by the Mingo Creek Society to protest the excise tax imposed on whiskey to help pay for the War of Independence
- Whiskey Rebellion
- Hamilton Vs Jefferson
- Hamilton wanted a stronger federal Government and felt the nation should assume the debt from the states from the war
- Jefferson believed the states should act more independently and pay their own debts
- Hamilton was the Treasury Secretary and won the battle
- Excise Whiskey tax of 1791
- Taxed the production of whiskey, not the sale
- Remained the law until Jefferson repealed it in 1802
- The effect in Western PA
- Western PA was mainly a grain economy. Many people were paid in grain, and it was easier to transport whiskey over raw grain
- Whiskey was a way of life, and everyone drank it as it was safer than water, a lot of times
- The battle
- Only one small skirmish
- Washington himself led about 13,000 troops against the few thousand rebels.
- The only time a sitting president ever was on the battlefield leading troops
- Rebels disbanded after seeing the force
- The ending
- Only 2 people were charged with treason, and both were pardoned by Washington
- MANY of the rules of protest we think about today were established here, as well as thoughts on free speech
- Hamilton Vs Jefferson
- Our Bottle: Old Monongahela Full Proof Rye
- 61% Rye | 13% Red Winter Wheat | 13% Rye Malt I 13% Malted Barley
- Sweet Mash
- 108 proof
- Pipe Pairings: Samuel Gawith full Virginia flake
- Cocktails:
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