Prohibition: Part 1

Whiskeys: Old Forester Bourbon • Old Fitzgerald Bourbon • James E. Pepper 1776 whiskeys • Old Grand-Dad Bourbon • Four Roses Bourbon • Old Overholt Rye • Jack Daniels Single Barrel Rye • Pikesville Rye

Topics: The Women’s Christian Temperance Union wanted to ban alcohol... everywhere on Earth • Carrie Nation: The Crazy Old Hatchet Lady • Some states outlawed alcohol years before the 18th Amendment • Americans at the turn of the 20th Century were drinking A LOT of whiskey (and beer) • The powerful German immigrant breweries (still around today!) • Wayne Webber's Anti-Saloon League turned the country against booze • The surprising anti-alcohol connections between income tax and the 1920 census • “Liberty Cabbage” was the original “Freedom Fries” • Somebody edited the Bible (!) to remove all references to alcohol • Significant whiskey events prior to 1900 • Old Overholt Rye QuickTaste™

Music Credits: “Hello Ma Baby” by Arthur Collins (1899, public domain) • “Over There” by George Cohen (1917, public domain)