Bourbon Empire (36 page)

Cherokee Indians,
52

cherry bounce,
56

Chez Panisse,
249

Chinese Americans, in whiskey advertisements,
147
–48

Churchill, Winston,
107
,
186
,
239

Cincinnati Enquirer,
194

Cincinnati Post,
192

Citra Double IPA,
266

Civil War,
95
–102

Claiborne, Craig,
249

Clay, Henry,
90

Cleveland, Grover,
119
–20

Cleveland Whiskey,
269
–70,
274

cocktails for Hitler,
216

Code of Responsible Practices,
211

Coffey, Aeneas,
87
,
116

cognac,
63
,
64
–65

Cohn, Roy,
242

Collier’s,
158

Collins, Richard,
57
,
130

Colonel E.H. Taylor, Jr.,
152

Colony, Myron,
115

Colosimo, Jim,
184

column stills,
87
,
116
–18

conglomerates,
220
–22

Connery, Sean,
241

connoisseurship,
75
–80

phenolic compounds and,
76
–77

price and status and,
77
–78

rating systems and,
78
–80

scoring and,
78
–79

wine’s influence on,
75
–79

contamination,
89

continuous stills.
See
column stills

contract distilling,
47
–48

Coolidge, Calvin,
4

Cooper, James Fenimore,
53

Coppersea Distilling,
282
–88,
287

cordials,
37

corn,
5
,
36

American diet in nineteenth century and,
70
–71

Kentucky bourbon and,
54
,
55

Native American cultivation of,
17

percentage of, federal regulation requires for bourbon,
15

Thorpe’s experiments with,
13
–14,
17
–18

Cornwallis, Lord,
33

corruption

in Gilded Age,
111
–16

Whiskey Ring,
111
,
112
–16

Corsair Distillery,
266
,
267

Costello, Frank,
212

counterfeiters,
156
–58

Cowdery, Charles,
66
,
79
,
269
–70

craft distilleries,
10
,
265
–74

aging shortcuts and,
268
–71

boom in, of twenty-first century,
47
,
75
–76,
265

Coppersea’s hybrid of old and new distilling techniques,
282
–88

determining what constitutes,
252
–53

Maker’s Mark and resurgence of, in 1980s,
246

relabeling and,
268

size of company and,
253
–54

Craig, Elijah,
11
,
51
–54,
56
–57,
62

Craig, Lewis,
52

Craig myth,
56
–57,
130

Crawford, Joan,
240

Cream of Kentucky Bourbon,
147

Crèvecoeur, Hector St. John de,
53

Crow, James,
82
,
86
–91,
152
,
153

Curtis, Wayne,
272
–73

Dad’s Hat Rye,
35

Daines, Heather,
277

Daniel, Jasper Newton “Jack,”
106
–7

Darrow, Clarence,
192

Daugherty, Harry,
188

Davis, Greg,
251

Davis, Miles,
81

DBA (doing business as),
47

Deadwood
(tv show),
8

Declaration of Independence,
10

DeVoto, Bernard,
35

Dewar’s,
199

Dewey, George,
148

Dewey’s Old Manila Whiskey,
148

Diageo,
8
,
236
,
252

Dickens, Charles,
69
,
72
–73

diet of Americans, early to mid-nineteenth century,
70
–71

direct firing,
282
–83

Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, The
(Filson),
53

distillation,
20

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS),
34
,
145
,
228

Distilled Spirits Institute (DSI),
3
,
211
–14,
216
–17,
227
–28

distilleries.
See also
specific distilleries

consolidation

into Big
6
, during Prohibition,
185
–86

post-Repeal,
198
–99

post-World War II,
220
–22

craft (
See
craft distilleries)

foreign ownership of,
256
–58

independents and start-ups

post-Repeal,
199
–204

post-World War II,
222
–24

industrial alcohol production, during World War II,
215
–16

number of

in early 1800s,
87

between 1933 and 1958,
220

during Prohibition,
185
–86

in 2000,
46
–47

in post-World War II era,
219
–24

Prohibition and,
171
–72,
185
–86

in Whiskey Ring era,
116
–19

World War II and,
215
–19

Distillers and Cattle Feeders Trust (Whiskey Trust),
122
–27

distilling process,
19
–21

distinctive U.S. product resolution, 1964,
1
–4,
7
,
12
,
234
–35

distribution channels, three-tier system for regulation of,
210

Doak, Samuel,
33

Dodge, Franklin,
191

Domestic Manners of the Americans
(Trollope),
71

doubler,
20

Doyle Dane Bernbach,
229

Dreystadt, Nicholas,
253

drugstores,
186
,
187
–88

drummers,
134
–35

Duffy, Walter,
157
–58

Duffy’s Famous Malt Whiskey,
158

Durrett, Reuben,
129
–30

Dylan, Bob,
242

Early Times,
185

East of Eden
(Steinbeck),
32

Economist,
228

Eisenstadt, Alfred,
222

Elijah Craig,
52
,
56
–57,
129
,
138
,
204

Eliot, T. S.,
63

Elite Traveller,
261

Elston, Charles,
192

Embury, David,
218

Ephron, Nora,
212
–13

Esquire,
242

esterification,
60
–61

Evan Williams,
129
–30,
138
,
157
,
204
,
250

Evan Williams Bourbon Experience,
167

evaporation,
3
,
60

Everclear,
117

Fahey, John,
283
–84

Farnsley, Alex,
108

Farnsley, Charlie P.,
108

Faulkner, William,
107

federal regulation.
See
government regulation

feints,
20

Ferguson, Patrick,
33

fermentation process,
19
–20

Crow’s experimentation with and standardization of,
88
–91

Fighting Cock,
204

Filson, John,
53
,
62

First Bank of the United States,
74

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
183
,
197

flavor

consistency, mixing or rotating of barrels for,
155
–56

extraction of,
59
–60

flavored whiskies,
277

Fleischman Company,
187

Flock, Tim,
179
–80

Food and Fuel Control Act (Lever Act),
176

food and whiskey pairings,
76

Foraker, Joseph,
162

Forand Bill,
228

Forbes, Malcolm,
25

Ford, Henry,
175
–76,
177
–78

Forman, Lou,
9
,
203

Forrest, Nathan Bedford,
130
,
131
,
132

Forrester, William,
131
,
133

Fortune,
209
,
212
,
220
,
259

Fortune Brands,
251

Four Roses,
8
,
156
,
221
–22,
223
,
231
,
243
–44,
257
,
260

Four Roses: Return of a Whiskey Legend
(Young),
223

Four Roses Yellow Label,
233

France, Bill,
179
,
180

Frank, Sidney,
226

Frankfort Distilleries,
185
,
221

Freiberg, Julius,
138

frontier whiskey,
9

Gaines, Berry and Co. Distillers,
142
,
153

Gallo, Ernest,
78

Gambino, Carlo,
212

Garino, David,
249
,
251

Gates, Horatio,
29

gaugers,
113

George, Henry,
158
,
159

George IV, King,
232

George T. Stagg,
152
,
199
,
229

Georgia Moonshine Wars,
105

Germantown, battle of,
30

Gibson, George,
125

Gilded Age,
111
–27

boom-and-bust cycles in,
120
–22

cartels in,
122
–27

corruption in,
111
–16

large distillery processes during,
116
–19

Whiskey Ring and,
111
,
112
–16

women and minorities in whiskey advertisements during,
145
–48

gin,
129
,
145
,
240
–41

Glenmore,
222

Godfather, The
(movie),
212

Good Housekeeping,
166

Gould, Jay,
112

government regulation.
See also
specific laws

corn, percentage of, required for bourbon,
15

labeling regulations,
157
,
160
–65

late 1800s,
119
–21

post-Repeal,
209
–11

straight whiskey, aging requirements for,
210

three-tier system, for regulation of distribution channels,
210

Graber, Adam,
276

Graham, Sylvester,
85
–86

grain neutral spirits,
116
–17,
163

Grant, Ulysses S.,
101
–2,
111
,
114
,
115
–16

Great Gatsby, The
(Fitzgerald),
186

Great Western Distillery,
124

Greenbriar Whiskey,
148

Greene, Graham,
230

Greene, Heather,
77
n

Green Hat,
273

Greenhut, Joseph B.,
123
–25,
162
,
175

Greenlee, Walter,
205

green malting,
282

Green Mountain Distillery,
126

Green River,
139

Greenspan, Alan,
262

Grey Goose,
226

Gruppo Campari,
231

Guinness,
236

H. H. Shufeldt and Company,
125

Hall, Harrison,
63
,
64
,
67
,
267

Hall, Roy,
178

Hamilton, Alexander,
4
,
185

economic vision of, and whiskey industry,
46
–49,
87
,
199
,
220
,
254
,
265

whiskey tax and,
38
–41,
44
,
45
,
74

Hammond, William,
96

Haner, Carl,
208

Harding, Warren,
168
,
188
,
189

Harper, John,
136

Harris, Scott,
265

Harrison, William Henry,
90

Hayden, Basil,
51

Haynes, Roy,
189

Headquarters for Murders, The
(pamphlet),
174

heads,
20

hearts,
20

Heavenhill, William,
202
,
204

Heaven Hill Distillery,
52
,
56
–57,
108
n,
130
,
138
,
167
–68,
201
–4,
208
,
219
–20,
222
,
224
,
247
–48

Helton, Mike,
180

Henry Clay Distillery,
142

Henry McKenna,
204

heritage,
7
–9

heritage distilling techniques,
282

Herrick, Myron,
176

Heublein Spirits Group,
224
,
239