Rye, 8.5% Malted Barley Proof: 118.2° Age: 15 years Further identification: Rare Release No. 6, from 18

This second barrel is assembled from 18-month air-dried wood and then toasted but not charred.

- Herman Melville, Moby Dick Between the early 1800s and Prohibition, Pennsylvania and Maryland were Later, the operation fell to Henry Large, born on the Fourth of July 1836. Scholouch, a store established in 1881 until Henry's death in 1917. We find vintage clothes racks at the Salvation Army, reminding Nick of a previous tasting of 18 Summers How could an 8 year old rye smell so close to an 18 year Kentucky bourbon from a similar era?

on Label: Louisville Spirits Group Whiskey Type: Finished Bourbon Mash Bill Percentages: 72% Corn, 18%

ABV: 46% // Cost: $80 18: Tyrconnell 10 Year Madeira Cask Single Malt Irish Whiskey Here's a funky one

"Mass #1 - Sweet Tart" Starlight Bourbon Barrel No. 18-0247 114.4 Proof - Aged 4 Years This is one of

, RD#3, is built in Baltimore, Maryland 1863:  Henry Hannis establishes the Hannis Distilling Company , which he calls Hannisville, RD#1 1870:  Hannis Distilling Company expanded production to meet this first prize at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1880:  The Hannis Distilling Company's Mt. Vernon Distillery, Registered Distillery #3), first established in 1858. Pure Rye actively advertised their mash bill, citing a 98% rye makeup consisting of 80% raw rye grain, 18%

Single Barrel Company on Label: Barton 1792 Whiskey Type: Bourbon Mash Bill Percentages: 74% Corn, 18% : 11% Corn, 74% Rye, 15% Barley Proof: 126.6° Age: 6 years Further identification: Barrel 6061, 115/182

This type of container used to be the gold standard for whiskey production in the 1800s, and it remained

The Courier-Journal, Tuesday, March 25, 1913 The Hermitage Distillery was organized in 1862 by Gaines , Berry & Co., with the distillery itself built in 1868 along the Kentucky River in Frankfort. Hermitage Distillery In 1868, the firm reorganized as W. A. company soon purchased the Old Crow Distillery on Glenn's Creek in Woodford County, and by the late 1880s experience that has been patiently exploring a dram of whiskey that was likely distilled in the late 1800s

Weller & Sons in 1893.

that produced the first "Blue Grass" bourbons and the legendary Boone's Knoll whiskey from the late 1800s