Some Ask Rye, Others Ask Rye Not
February 20, 2007 at 3:27 pm
At last! Proof — 90 proof, as it were — that elected representatives can do more than raise taxes. They can raise glasses.
George Washington may be best known for his role in building a new nation, but visitors to his Mount Vernon estate should soon have the chance to taste one of the Founding Father’s lesser known talents: making rye whiskey. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, is expected to sign into law a measure that would allow Mount Vernon to sell small amounts of Washington’s Whiskey at the rebuilt George Washington’s Distillery, which is scheduled to open to the public in a ceremony next month.
Good ole George Washington. He couldn’t tell a rye.
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