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Pre-Prohibition whiskey is higher proof, he says, with a “deeper baritone note.” At a late November pre-auction tasting of the Leonis lot that will go on sale this week, ...
Mark Wade, an amateur historian and dusty-bottle hunter, has built one of the most extraordinary pre-Prohibition whiskey collections in America. From his first 1940s E.H. Taylor to forgotten ...
Simple but endlessly satisfying, this classic sour is a pre-Prohibition era hit. In a cocktail shaker without ice, combine bourbon, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white. Dry shake for 20 ...
Today, Jameson is the best-selling Irish whiskey in world, and has been a catalyst for the revival of the Irish whiskey industry’s fortunes. Prohibition almost spelled its death knell, however ...
During Prohibition, medicinal whiskey wasn't special just because it was legal (via prescription). The quality was high and the likelihood of going blind from drinking it was low.
During Prohibition, booze was banned, but "medicinal" spirits weren't, a loophole whiskey makers exploited. That's just one of the tidbits a new book tracing the history of whiskey labels reveals.
A whiskey river wasn’t on Austin Contegiacomo’s mind when he found an ocean of it — a Prohibition-era stash, to be exact — washed up on a New Jersey beach while he was walking his dog l… ...
A Pennsylvania man will soon stand trial for raiding a secret stash of historic hooch, a100-proof-plus cache of pre-Prohibition whiskey valued by one expert at more than $100,000.
The bottom of a whiskey bottle with a diamond shape may indicate the whiskey was bottled during prohibition. Austin Contegiacomo. But how the whisky bottles ended up in the sand is a mystery.