In 1898, the IRS initiated a survey of 33 distilleries examining the whiskey production processes from mash bills to equipment to barrel management, shocking the American populous by actually being useful for a change. (Needless to say, the IRS was a bit different back then.) The document was the catalyst for Todd Leopold and Leopold Bros. Distillery to resurrect a lost relic of American whiskey history: the three-chamber still.
The three-chamber still is thought to have originated in Scotland in the early 1850s and was originally made from wood. The still became an integral part of the rye whiskey industry that was
