Riannon Walsh uncovers the work of archaeologists rebuilding an important piece of American, and whiskey, history- the distillery owned by George Washington, celebrated General and the first President
George Washington to James Anderson, Plantation Manager, Mount Vernon Virginia, 1797: "I consent to your commencing a distillery and approve of your purchasing the stills and entering of it..."
In the early autumn of 1777, George Washington led 11,000 troops, recently battered and defeated at Bran...
Whisky History
from Issue 15 published on 16/4/2001
