Riptide Cask Strength Rye Whiskey

Rye Whiskey has deep roots in the story of American Whiskey. When the colonists pushed out British Rum they didn’t give up drinking, they just started making whiskey – Rye Whiskey. Even George Washington had his own still at Mount Vernon, and made a Rye Whiskey for sale. It was an unaged, unfiltered white lightning, but he double distilled it and sent it off to market. Early in his presidency, Washington imposed a tax on all whiskey made in the US. The Rye Whiskey makers of western Pennsylvania objected to the tax and started the Whiskey Rebellion. President Washington himself saddled up and led a Federal Militia into Pennsylvania to put down the insurrection. Facing the Father of the Country backed by 12000 troops, the rebel farmers and distillers quietly dispersed. Not a shot was fired, and the rebellion came to an end. The authority of the new national government was upheld, and Rye Whiskey – duly taxed – again flowed freely into pubs throughout country. “Good old boys were drinking