Phony craft whiskey

[Dave W]

Caveat emptor.

Your 'Craft' Rye Whiskey Is Probably From a Factory Distillery in Indiana

[patman]

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.

[gearHed289]

There's "craft whiskey" now?  Our friend, "marketing", is hard at work I see... 

[nofi]

the "craft" is fooling the public.

[Pilgrim]

I'll stay with the craft brews from the area here in Fort Collins, thank'ee. 

[Dave W]

There really are micro-distilleries, they're spreading fairly fast although I doubt it will ever be as big as craft breweries. Here's a local story from late last year and another 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.