clayton Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Louisiana? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 27, 2004 Author Share Posted August 27, 2004 Sorry, It is not Minnesotta.Try again.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 27, 2004 Author Share Posted August 27, 2004 Interesting thought, but wrong. Try again.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 27, 2004 Author Share Posted August 27, 2004 This is correct. If the state had more than one district, then there could be multiple DSP No. 1 distilleries in the same state.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneCubeOnly Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Another clue is this state had the only 4 digit DSP numbers I ever saw.Okay, here's my last shot at it: having no knowledge of how DSP numbers work, I'll guess a 4-letter state to correspond with a 4 digit DSP: I'll guess Iowa.Lots of corn there which needed facilitated transport down the Mississippi!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 27, 2004 Author Share Posted August 27, 2004 Iowa, Lots of corn, but not distilleries. Try again. Let see, we have ruled out:AlaskaHawaiiKentuckyOhioIllinoisMissouriCaliforniaTennesseeNew YorkPennsylvaniaMarylandIndianaMinnisotaIowaVirginiaWest VirginiaThe list is getting short of available states. Keep trying.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayton Posted August 27, 2004 Share Posted August 27, 2004 Georgia? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 27, 2004 Author Share Posted August 27, 2004 No its not Georgia, try again.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musher Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Not to complain, or anything, but since I'm a life-long resident of the state, I've got to defend its honor. Twice now, you've misspelled its name (Minnesotta and Minnisota). The correct spelling is Minnesota! Now that I've got that out of the way . . . . Back to the guessing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markw Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Connecticut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelshare Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Given the recent Conecuh Ridge hype, I'd have to guess Alabama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 No, not Alabama. Try again.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 Interesting guess. They had some rum and gin distilleries in that area, but not that many.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDKnaebel Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Colorado. JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 My apologies. I never learned to type and sometimes the keys don't seem to work right. I will try to do better.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 No, wrong again. Try another state?Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDKnaebel Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 No, wrong again. Try another state? Mike Veach North Carolina. JD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markw Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 Surely not Delaware? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesbassdad Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 New Jersey?Yours truly,Dave Morefield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 We ahve a winner folks! The state of North Carolina had more registered distilleries than any other state prior to prohibition. According to the Microfilm sent to me at U.D. there were only a couple of districts and each had over a thousand distilleries, but few of them had a capacity of over three barrels a day. It seems that this was a pot still whiskey state.The big distributing company in the state was Casper's Whiskey with the colbalt blue bottles. Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 Sorry Dave, we have winner with answer of North Carolina.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bourbonv Posted August 28, 2004 Author Share Posted August 28, 2004 Surely not. The winner is North Carolina.Mike Veach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vision Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 I just read a story on this.North Carolina may have had the most distilleries, but I think Maryland was the largest producer of spirit for the young nation, from the Whiskey Rebellion to Prohibition. Rye grew very well in Maryland's fields. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgonano Posted August 28, 2004 Share Posted August 28, 2004 From my readings, an estimated 20,000 distilleries could be found in the U.S. in 1830. Most were small pot stilled. The reason was barrelled whiskey was more cost effective to ship than barrelled grain. Also many wholesalers, in Baltimore and other seaports, shipped many farm supplies throughout the country and were repaid in liquified grain.The wholesalers became grocers( meaning they sold whiskey )and registered themselves as distillers.I should let our bourbon historians do the reporting but I believe Pennsylvania and Maryland,in that order, were a distant second and third behind Kentucky in whiskey produced before Prohibition. Also Maryland rye grain was excellent but apparently wild onion intruded into the grainfields. Many Maryland distillery records indicate the preferance for New York and Wisconsin rye in the recipe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeNell Posted August 29, 2004 Share Posted August 29, 2004 How about Iowa? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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