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When it comes to the oldest continuously operating distilleries in the United States, you'd assume prohibition enforced a hard reset. Indeed, from 1920 to 1933, it was illegal to make, transport, or sell alcoholic drinks in America (via Encyclopedia Britannica ).
However, there were some licenses granted by the government to six distilleries that allowed them to continue to produce during these years to help supply the medicinal market.
During Prohibition, six distilleries were allowed to remain open. These were the George T. Stagg, A. Ph. Stitzel, W. L. Weller and Sons, A. Overholt, Joseph S. Finch and John D. Taylor. The George T Stagg Distillery was the first to receive special permission to open, allowing them to distil whiskey for “medicinal, scientific and sacramental use.
That includes during Prohibition when it was the George T. Stagg Distillery and bottled whiskey, government-stamped and bottled in bond at 100 proof, to be prescribed via doctors' orders....
During 13 years of Prohibition, American whiskey distillers lost a generation of expertise and knowledge, decimating the United States’ domestic distilling industry. This is the fascinating story of Prohibition’s impact and Jim Beam ’s subsequent recovery, revitalizing America’s bourbon industry.
Distilleries are trendy in rural New York. But this one was open 88 years ago, during Prohibition.
The six Kentucky distilleries that held medicinal licenses during Prohibition were: Brown-Forman, Glenmore, Frankfort Distilleries, Schenley, American Medicinal Spirits, and A. Ph. Stitzel . There were numerous whiskey brands available for sale during Prohibition, including H. Kraver Bourbon, though it was not being sold directly from Kentucky ...
The PCS folks recently discovered a tunnel in their basement that runs five blocks to what was, a century ago, Distillery Commons, one of the five functional Louisville distilleries during Prohibition. They found 100-year-old alcohol bottles and a miner’s lantern modified with a Model T taillight.
Just six distilleries were able to operate at all during Prohibition, and that was only thanks to a little something known as a medicinal whiskey permit. When the 21st amendment was ratified in 1933, Prohibition was repealed and “the Great Experiment” finally came to an end.
Prohibition supporters got a boost when the United States entered World War I in 1917 and President Woodrow Wilson instituted a temporary wartime prohibition during which distillers could produce only industrial alcohol.