“George Washington distilled bourbon at Mount Vernon, Abraham Lincoln’s father was a seasonal distillery hand, and Lincoln’s General-in-Chief, Ulysses S. Grant, was a dedicated consumer of bourbon. The novelist Walker Percy wrote an oft-reprinted essay in praise of the stuff, but he was no connoisseur, since, like me, he spent the bulk of his early life in Mississippi, which remained dry until 1966. Consequently, we were able to avail ourselves only of the brands the local bootlegger had on offer, which, in the case of bourbon, was generally Old Crow— a favorite of Grant, Mark Twain, and our postman, for whom my mother left a bottle in the mailbox every Christmas.”
Nice story from 2008 about bourbon on Newsweek.com.
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