[george76]

After five years of archaeological excavations, the distillery has been authentically rebuilt by a team of restoration architects, craftsmen and historians using 18th-century building techniques.

[elkfersupper]

MADD will be furious.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Hazcat]

What is the actual brand name?

[BW2221]

Personally, I'd be more impressed if the Playmate of the Month was cutting the ribbon than British Royalty.

[Pharmboy]

The Washington Family Coat of Arms

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Thanks for the post and the ping, George76. Although he must have enjoyed his whiskey occasionally, The General favored madeira and always served rum punch to his guests. As I understand it , the distillery was a business venture more than anything else.

[Trajan88]

The greatness that's George Washington never ceases to amaze.

[CWOJackson]

This is kind of like inviting a New Yorker to cut the ribbon at a monument to Robert E. Lee.

[NelsTandberg]

Interesting! And this is the same George Washington who invoked the Militia Law in 1792 and personally led troops into western Pennsylvania to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion?

Perhaps he was just regulating competition, half-a-decade before opening his own distillery.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

"George Washington was one of the most successful whiskey distillers of his time and symbolizes everything modern distillers stand for: responsibility, moderation and quality."

Very interesting...never heard this before.

[Tench_Coxe]

bookmark.

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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