Michter's Small Batch American Whiskey

[fricky]

The point that I was trying to make is that not all whiskey sold by Michter's, Schafferstown was distilled by Michter's in Schafferstown and maybe the Michter's, Schafferstown whiskey that you really like was not distilled by Michter's in Schafferstown.

[ethangsmith]

It wasn't? I'm not being smart or anything. I honestly didn't know that Michter's was not always distilled in Schaefferstown. I am doing very in-depth research about the brand and the distillery and this is the first that I have come across this. I had always heard that Louis Forman was buying whiskey from Pennco from the Schaefferstown distillery to fill his Michter's products with. After Mr. Forman sold the distillery to Veru in 1979, Michter's became a distiller and bottler of their product. Where was Michter's coming from if it wasn't all made at Schaefferstown?

[AVB]

Supposedly the 10 yo Rye was the same as the PVW rye at close to 18 yo even though both were labeled with younger stated ages. Having had them I can see where that might be true.

I don't know about the bourbon.

I like the 10 yr old single barrel Michter's Bourbon and the 10 yr old single barrel Michter's Rye.

[barturtle]

Supposedly the 10 yo Rye was the same as the PVW rye at close to 18 yo even though both were labeled with younger stated ages. Having had them I can see where that might be true.

I don't know about the bourbon.

No, actually it was the 13yo-stated stuff that VW did under the Hirsch name. I have a thread on it here, where I sorted through Julian's posts on the subject.

[AVB]

There is a mention by dgonano about VW bottling this here. That is what I was thinking of.

[barturtle]

There is a mention by dgonano about VW bottling this here. That is what I was thinking of.

Ah, yes. The first Mitchers 10yo were bottled by VW, but weren't from his stock. it's in post 7 of the thread I linked to.

[AVB]

Ahhh, I'll stand corrected.

All I have/had were the early Michter's 10 yo rye and I thought they were pretty good albeit expensive.

[dgonano]

AVB,

When I made that post(2004), I had no idea the source of the whiskies.

Tim's time and effort to produce such an accurate trail is well appreciated.