Five Wild WHISKEYS of the West
As any 19th-century “tarantula juice”-drinking Wild West barfly could confirm, quality American whiskey production wasn’t exactly born in these parts. Like people, it was naturally drawn here over time.
During the 1790s, an unpopular whiskey tax would lead dissenting Pennsylvania distillers to head for the nascent bourbonlands of Kentucky and Tennessee where whiskey history was truly reborn. But the barrels didn’t stop there.
Fast-forward a couple centuries and some of today’s finest bourbon, rye, and American single-malt outliers have,
