Caveat emptor.
Your 'Craft' Rye Whiskey Is Probably From a Factory Distillery in Indiana (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/your-craft-whiskey-is-probably-from-a-factory-distillery-in-indiana.html)
Interesting ...My mom's family was from there...we visited every Sunday. only a forty minute drive from Cincinnati (maybe an hour back then).
Grandpa worked there (Seagrams), in the forties, I believe (he was dead by 1950)...I used to love the smell of the town. Sour mash smell permeated everything. There were two distillers there back then: Seagrams and Schenley.
Regardless of being from a huge factory, it's probably good stuff. Those folks know whiskey.
There's "craft whiskey" now? :rolleyes: Our friend, "marketing", is hard at work I see... :bored:
the "craft" is fooling the public. >:(
I'll stay with the craft brews from the area here in Fort Collins, thank'ee.
There really are micro-distilleries, they're spreading fairly fast although I doubt it will ever be as big as craft breweries. Here's (http://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/11/26/regional/far-north-craft-distillery) a local story from late last year and another (http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/01/22/small-batch-distilleries?from=business)from this year. These people really are operating small batch craft distilleries. It's just unfortunate that a lot of the other ones aren't real at all.
Years ago (late 90s) I happened to be talking to a beverage chemist from Archer Daniels Midland and was surprised when he told me that a number of so-called distilleries actually bought their liquor by the tank car load from ADM.