TO SCIENCE!
ulian P. ‘Pappy’ Van Winkle was famous for his disdain for chemists. There is a photo of him at the distillery he owned, Stitzel-Weller, standing next to a sign that proclaimed: No Chemists Allowed! The feeling among a lot of the original folks in the post-regulation industrial days of distilling, particularly in Kentucky, was that they didn’t need a scientist telling them what they already knew.
