Searching for the Soul of Rye Whiskey - Fix Me a Drink
Fix Me a Drink with Noah Rothbaum & David Wondrich Podcast
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The Dutch Influence on American Whiskey
Half the Menongahela rye was made north of Pittsburgh and not in the menongahela valley at all. It was made like, you know, on the Allegheny or other stuff. We're these terms. We see them on old labels, right? Ads. The earliest for Menongahel a rye I've seen is somebody maybe a Natchez advertising barrels of old MenongahelA rye in 1807. That's old. Hell, that's pretty old for scotch, right? Scotch whiskey up until like 17, 20 or 30 was a flavored thing,. Or their biggest customer was where the gin distillers would take their distillers.
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