Despite the bottle’s claim that it’s been “FAMOUS SINCE 1894,” I’d never heard of it. As it turns out, I was not alone.
While visiting relatives in upstate New York a few months ago, I stopped into a lovely little liquor store to buy a bottle of wine or egged me on to try it: “drink it, i dare you, you won’t regret your entire life when you wake up in a small room with doritos everywhere.”
Then I remembered someone commented on my post that Philadelphia Whiskey may now made by Heaven Hill Distillery in Bardstown, Ky., which also makes the very-Philly-centric-named Rittenhouse Rye, which I am familiar with.I had a late editor who often said, “You can have a sip of Rittenhouse Rye and that’ll make every emergency better.
“‘The Heritage Whisky,’ a special occasion treat, yet one you can afford to enjoy…regularly and often,” several ads read. In fact, as Cassell pointed out, there’s actually a Philly-based company called the Philadelphia Whiskey Company, but it doesn’t make Philadelphia Whiskey (Publicker shuttered its facilities in the 1980s and several of its brands, including Philadelphia Whiskey and Rittenhouse Rye, were bought by Medley, which in turn was bought and merged with several other companies before the brands went to Heaven Hill in 1993, according to theNow that we’ve distilled down the facts, it’s on to the burning...
“It’s always a proportion of vodka and whiskey and caramel coloring, which doesn’t add to the taste, it’s just to fool the eyes,” he said. “This is more of a hangover of prohibition, to stretch the limited inventory…it’s a thing all of our grandparents drank. Anybody who’s ordered a 7 and 7 has also had blended whiskey.
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