Old Lexington Club – A Pure Medicinal Whiskey
Here’s a Kentucky whiskey from the prohibition era (Bottled in Bond: Spring 1917 – Fall 1933) from my collection that is in excellent condition…
Here’s a Kentucky whiskey from the prohibition era (Bottled in Bond: Spring 1917 – Fall 1933) from my collection that is in excellent condition…
“If you don’t know how to spell a word, I suggest you look it up in the dictionary”, is something one would hear often from…
For this installment of Collector Conversations, I bring to you, my dear old Dad! He has been collecting for over 60 years and has the…
https://youtu.be/pV-budka-6U Be sure to watch this edition of Collector Conversations featuring Rotem Ben Shitrit. Rotem’s collection is nearing 10,000 miniature whiskey bottles and he admits…
I spend so much time on whiskey that sometimes it is good to get out of my lane for a bit. For this installment of…
“Kentucky Bourbon is the ONLY bourbon”, they say. “You can’t really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it’s a combination of the barrels and the…
I’ve been meaning to post this article for quite some time so today I bring you my Chicken Cock Whiskey collection. There are several interesting…
Interesting note: the whiskey in this bottle spans the entirety of prohibition! Bottle Information Brand: Four Roses Size: Pint Barrelled: 1917 Bottled: 1934 Distiller: H.S.…
Over the years I have been chasing a complete run of the same brand of prohibition whiskey bottle sizes: quart, pint, 1/2 pint, 1/4 pint,…
Forrest Cokely who writes for Old Liquors Magazine was kind enough to reach out for a short interview and include me in this very informative…
The biggest thing I have learned from collecting prohibition medicinal whiskeys is that the brand doesn’t matter the vast majority of the time. For example,…
In this post I want to share one of my favorite brands: Old Sunny Brook. It isn’t particularly hard to find and doesn’t excite many…
It has been yet another long while since I’ve posted to this blog so I thought I would focus on some of the more obscure…
Today’s post is a salute to distiller Stitzel-Weller and the brand Old Fitzgerald. These bottles, all unopened, range from the prohibition era up to the…
Hello fellow Whisky Benders! This time I’m going to let the pictures do the talking as I share photos sent in for appraisal or general information…
A fellow whiskey enthusiast and a reader of this blog (aka a “WhiskeyBender”) sent the following amazing specimen of a pre-prohibition bottle of Golden Wedding Whiskey. For…
Here is one of my favorite bottles in my collection. I’ve seen two others out there that are sealed and unopened and one is a…
It has been too long since my last post, what with life and all. I have so many delicious whiskey posts planned but with so…
<movie_trailer_voice> Imagine a world where Coca-Cola is bottled in Pepsi containers. Imagine a world where Pepsi is put inside RC Cola cans. Imagine a world where…
As a relative newbie to the American whiskey scene, I am truly fascinated by the heritage of the brands, distilleries and those old pre-prohibition whiskey…
Being a marketing guy by trade, I really admire these old advertisements from National Distillers (circa July 1934). Create sense of urgency. Check. Weave a…
This week, as I devoured the blog posts of my fellow whiskey bloggers, I realized I’m more of a museum curator rather than a historian.…
Circa 1950, these Old Fiddles have been in the family for a while and I’m the current caretaker. Known for their “fiddle” shape, they were…
After doing some of my typical Internet hunting I bring back to my whiskey tribe a beast of an article. Tom Eblen, from the Lexington…
I thought I would go north of the border with this post and share my Lincoln Inn Old Rye Whiskey bottles. One is a full…
Let me introduce myself. My name is David Spaid, former editor of The Miniature Bottle Collector, which is now out-of-print. I’ve been collecting bottles of…
This magazine ad from October 1934 sheds light on the fact that there was a lot of prohibition era whiskey left over after Repeal. Since…
You know, it really doesn’t dawn on you that people could easily get whiskey during prohibition until you see the medicinal whiskey prescriptions and logs…
So, I was slumming around on Craig’s List the other day looking for a swing set, yeah a swing set, and I found this delicious…
During one of my typical Google outings I stumbled upon this photograph of a nice old collection of prohibition whiskey bottles. The owner of this…
Have you ever wondered what a bottle of medicinal whiskey distilled nearly 100 years ago tastes like? Yeah, I’m sure you’re thinking what most people…