Every Picture Tells a Story
Whiskey-making in America wasn’t fully industrialized until the final quarter of 19th century, but then it became very big very fast. Using a photo to tell the story of the Greendale Distillery, near Lawrenceburg, Ind., when no records of the pre-Prohibition plant seem to be available. (Chuck Cowdrey Blog)
Indiana Grown: Hopwood Cellars Winery & Distillery
“The bourbon’s delicious,” Eric Abel for Hopwood Cellars Winery & Distillery, Zionsville, Ind., tells WISH-TV. “There’s a 16 acre vineyard. We have 2,200 vines, barns, It’s beautiful. Well actually start doing events for the middle end of July. We’ll have music out there, we’ll do some possible movie nights, walking tours of the vines for everybody,” he says.
Raise a glass to the memory of Willow Springs Distillery in Omaha
“Willow Springs whiskey was the barrel beverage of all the saloons on the frontier in the days when the buffalo still roamed in monster herds on the western Plains,” wrote John H. Kearnes in the Omaha Daily Bee in 1918. “It was the drink of the thirsty plainsman, cowboy, sheepherder, miner, railroad laborer and the aristocracy of the old west when the saloon man and his bartenders were among the social elite of town and camp.” (Omaha World-Herald via KPVI)