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To: Lurker

Sometimes in the morning you can smell the distilleries. Interesting. Lot better than the paper mills in Savannah when I was a kid.

Yeah, the tour at Heaven Hill Bourbon Heritage Center is nice. The tasting is fun. We go everytime someone comes to visit. The whisky/bourbon heritage of this area is quite interesting.


4 posted on 06/09/2007 7:13:18 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
The whisky/bourbon heritage of this area is quite interesting.

It dates all the way back to the Whiskey Rebellion IIRC. The distillers moved into that region to avoid paying the Federal excise taxes on distilled spirits.

Happy circumstance let those tax dodgers find some of the finest spring water on the planet. And we are all richer for that.

L

6 posted on 06/09/2007 7:15:16 AM PDT by Lurker (Comparing moderate islam to extremist islam is like comparing small pox to plague.)
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