Getting the flavor of...Our Founding Father’s finest

George Washington’s estate is getting into whiskey—and not for the first time.

Our Founding Father’s finest

George Washington’s estate is getting into whiskey—and not for the first time, said Julia Edwards in The Washington Post. Three miles from his Mount Vernon home (mountvernon.org), the nation’s first president operated a gristmill and distillery at a site that’s drawing more and more visitors as interest in craft distilling grows. Twice a year at the rebuilt distillery, a small group led by a former master distiller from Maker’s Mark creates rye whiskey using wood fires, water from a local pond, and Washington’s own recipe. The ex-president went big into booze after leaving office: In the two years before his death, he produced more whiskey and brandy than any other East Coast distiller, using just eight men to do the work—two paid and six enslaved. Act fast if you want any of the 1,100 bottles of whiskey that today’s team released on April 4. At the gift shop, the $95 treasures “usually fly off the shelves.”

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