Jack Daniels Distillery Nestled in a quiet mountain glen just outside of Lynchburg Tennessee you’ll find the Jack Daniel’s distillery. Started in 1866 by a man named Jasper Newton Daniel, he started distilling a sour mash whiskey now known as Jack Daniel’s. “Using spring water free of iron traces, he added the finest white corn, the best rye, and barley malt, both fresh and ripe yeast to make a "sour" mash, different from most bourbons.”(sippin’ whiskey) He let it ferment 24 hours longer than ordinary bourbons, then leached it through vats of sugar-maple charcoal to purify it, and finally aged it four to six years in new, charred white oak barrels. This process helps give Jack Daniels its unique smoky taste combined with a smooth richness that makes it, to such famed connoisseurs as Lucius Beebe, Novelist William Faulkner and onetime Vice President John Nance Garner, “the best sippin' whisky of all.”(sippin’ whiskey) One morning in 1911, Jasper Newton Daniel showed up to work early. He tried to open the safe in his office but had forgotten the combination. Out of frustration he gave the safe a good solid kick. The blow broke his toe and would lead to a blood infection which took his life a couple of weeks later. Jasper never married and had no children but had grown very close to his nephew Lem Motlow, whom he deeded the distillery to. One of Lem’s accomplishments was getting the company incorporated before his death in 1947. Jack Daniels Distillery has overcome several obstacles over the years. In the early 1900’s it was forced to shut down its distillery in Lynchburg and move to St.
The man that paved the way for many sober alcoholics was born on the 26 of November, 1895 in East Dorset, Vermont. His parents were nam...
World History, itself is a very well complicated topic to discuss. Many other authors have tried to condense many years of history in one book. Subjected to fail, Tom Standage’s attempt was a success. Instead of Standage trying to sum up the history, he simply based the book upon a single topic, in this case beverages.
Breckenridge Brewery is a craft brewer which was established by Richard Squire. Richard turned his passion for brewing good home made beer into a lucrative business. In 1989, he started his first Breckenridge Brewery and Pub at Breckenridge which has a production capacity of 3,000 barrels per year. During his first two years in business, he sold out the brewery's annual maximum capacity. He opened a second brewery and brew pub in Denver in November 1992.
Did you know that in the 1920s the American government poisoned alcoholic beverages to stop excessive use of it from the consumers? Of course, this happened during Prohibition which was the America government’s attempt to stop and illegalize the manufacture and marketing of beer. Surprisingly, Prohibition lasted from 1920 until 1933.Throughout the prohibition period, many famous and infamous leaders rose, such as Alphonse Capone, Carry Nation, and Adolphus Busch. Expectedly the use of alcohol during the 1920s caused strong and respectable men to become diverted dull and to be extremely abusive to their spouse and children; therefore causing it to be a necessity to be abolished in the eyes of the American government. “We Sang Rock of Ages”: Frances Willard’s Battles Alcohol in the late 19th century is a selection from an autobiography by Frances Willard in which it provided detailed report of her experience participating in a temperance movement. Frances Willard’s literary piece uplifts the idea of humane purity against foul and slow working toxins that are capable of corrupting the most innocent kind of men, and stresses the importance for men to not be pressured to follow the crowd. Frances Willard’s “We Sang Rock of Ages” essay indicated the temperance movement’s pursuit to heal social morals, abolish the excessive use of alcohol, and target slaves of alcohol to turn to God through prayer as well as song.
Once people wanted a drink, nothing stopped them. Subsequently, prohibition sparked American ingenuity to step to the forefront. A black market emerged, as brewing beer making wine, and distilling whiskey, became a national past time. Enterprising home brewers could make enough Home brew, Dago Red, Bathtub Gin or Moonshine to quench their thirst and to sell as well. Therefore, stills begin popping up in basements, barns, backrooms, and the deep woods. Both Canada and Mexico were wet, and their border towns offered many opportunities for thirsty Americans to quench their thirst. Ships anchored outside the three-mile limit on both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, loaded with alcohol becoming floating bars and nightclubs. Additional ships offered cases of alcohol spirits only to the professional rumrunners. Illegal liquor grew to such an extent that enforcement became virtually impossible.
People have believed in medicinal benefits of alcohol since ancient times, using it to cure snake bites and control disease. Even though the belief has begun to dwindle in the early twentieth century, alcohol was legally manufactured for medic...
In September 15, 2002 an article was printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The artical was about giving liquor licenses to three “dry” towns. Jake Wageman wrote the article titled “Giving liquor sales a shot in 3 towns, an effort to boost the economy is on the way or on the ballot”. The article contained several opinons, on the topic. The idea was, wether or not, to give these towns a licenses to sell liquor and boost the towns economy. The people want a place to go to have a drink with family or friends, but they don’t want to go to a bar. That is opposite of what they want. The people want a nice, sit down restaurant where they can go to eat and have a drink if they want. People can see nothing wrong with a place to go have a drink, if they want to.
Even till this day no one truly knows the origins of Black Jack. Though most agree it originated in a French casino around the 1700’s. Should also be noted that Spanish and Roman had similar games but the most prevalent theory is that the French created the modern black jack game we all know today. Vingt-et-Un refers to the French word for 21 though the games rules might have changed the concept remains the same player to get closets to 21 wins.
Tom Scott and Tom First started Allserve, a floating convenience store serving boats in the Nantucket Harbour during their summer holidays in college. After graduation, during the winter of 1990, First recreated a peach fruit juice drink that he came across in Spain and started a side business selling fresh juice. Everyone loved the product and they went on to open the Allserve General Store on Nantucket's Straight Wharf. They named the fruit juice "Nantucket Nectars".
While many historians and scholars look back on moonshiners with a clearer understanding of the economic need and the importance of distilling tradition, no study has called out Wilkes County’s long and traditional moonshine culture.” Charles D. Thompson, Jr.’s Spirits of Just Men (2011) depicted a corrupt “pay for protection” scheme in Franklin County where state and local agents blackmailed moonshiners during Federal Prohibition, while Joshua Blackwell’s Used to be a Rough Place in them Hills (2009) covered the clannish and violent nature of the nineteenth-century moonshine trade in the so-called “Dark Corners” of Appalachian South Carolina” (Thompson 13)(Blackwell
...required to sell alcohol, and those that did still had difficulty obtaining alcohol to serve. Some legal establishments were forced to buy directly from speakeasies and bootleggers. Others opened up stock remaining from pre-Prohibition days as well as bottles purchased in the ensuing years under medicinal permits. (Brayton)
My late great-great-grandfather was the first known Jewish pharmacist in the city of Toronto during the 1910’s. He died at the young age of 42 during one of Toronto’s influenza outbreaks. The artifact I have chosen to present is an embossed druggist bottle from his pharmacy. The name printed on the bottle is my great-great-grandfathers name, A B Hashmall, which is short for Ainsley Benjamin Hashmall. He immigrated to Canada in 1903, but only began working as a pharmacist in 1913, when he set up his own store at 119 Agnes Street. Ainsley remained at his store on Agnes street for only a year before moving to 11 St. Patrick St. He was at that location when these bottles were produced. I know that because that exact address is embossed onto the glass bottles.
From just one restaurant in San Bernadino, California, run by two brothers, McDonald’s has grown to become the best known and most popular fast food restaurant chain in the world.
Although drinking liquor had been prohibited by law and many drinking establishments had disappeared, people began to find other ways to obtain their alcoholic beverages illegally. Shortly after the Amendment banning all alcoholic beverage sales was enforced, illegal drinking establishments were opened throughout the whole country. Even people living out in the country learned methods to start making their own alcoholic beverages. They build stills and hid them deep in the woods and started moonshining. This w...
Bootleggers supplied speakeasies with alcohol. They were responsible for bringing the shipments of alcohol to th...