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Rye whiskey
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In the United States, rye whiskey is, by law, made from a mash of at least 51 percent rye. It is distilled to no more than 160 U. S. proof, the whiskey must be put into such barrels at not more than 125 proof. Rye whiskey that has been so aged for at least two years and has not been blended with other spirits may be designated as straight. Rye whiskey was historically the prevalent whiskey of the states, especially Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh was the center of rye whiskey production in the late 1700s, by 1808, Allegheny County farmers were selling one half barrel for each man, woman and child in the country. Rye whiskey largely disappeared after Prohibition, a few brands, such as Old Overholt, survived it, although by the late 1960s even Pennsylvania names such as Old Overholt were being distilled mostly in Kentucky. Today, a number of brands are produced by Campari Group, Diageo, Heaven Hill, Beam Suntory, The Sazerac Company. One notable producer is MGP of Indiana, which is a distiller for many brands marketed by others, rye has been currently undergoing a small but growing revival in the United States. Since the beginning of the 21st century, many producers have been experimenting with rye whiskey. For example, Brown-Forman has also production of a Jack Daniels rye whiskey, releasing unaged. A distillery at Mount Vernon, the homestead of George Washington, rye grain is known for imparting what many call a spicy or fruity flavor to the whiskey. Bourbon, distilled from at least 51% corn, is noticeably sweeter, all other things being equal, the character of the cocktail will be drier with rye. Canadian whisky is often referred to as rye whisky, since much of the content was from rye. In some cases the ratio may be as high as 9,1. Most contemporary Canadian whiskies contain only a fraction of rye, with the exception of a few brands, such as Alberta Premium and Canadian Club Chairmans Select, Canadian whisky must be aged in wooden barrels for at least 3 years. This requirement differs from regulations for U. S. blended whiskey, in which the bulk base spirits are not required to be aged
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Beam Suntory
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Beam Suntory, Inc. is an American manufacturer of spirits headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. It is a subsidiary of Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd, which itself is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan. The companys principal products include bourbon whiskey, tequila, Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey, Canadian whisky, vodka, cognac, rum, cordials, as a distinct entity, the company was established as Beam Inc. On December 16,2011, Beam Inc. agreed to buy the only independent Irish whiskey distiller that existed at the time, on April 23,2012, Beam announced it would acquire the Pinnacle vodka and Calico Jack rum brands for $600 million. On January 13,2014, Suntory announced a deal to buy Beam Inc. for about $13.6 billion. The acquisition was completed on April 30,2014, for a final cost of about $16 billion – when it was announced that Beam would become a subsidiary named Beam Suntory. Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Chicago Cubs and Beam Suntory announced a long-term sponsorship deal in January 2017, making Beam the official spirits partner of the Cubs and Wrigley Field. In addition to brands produced directly by the company and its subsidiaries, it imports and markets some brands produced by others, additionally, Beam facilities produce spirits for brands owned by other companies, such as Calvert Extra blended whiskey, now owned by Luxco. Beam Suntory – official company website
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Clermont, Kentucky
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Clermont is a USGS-designated populated place in Bullitt County, Kentucky, United States, south of Louisville. Clermont is located at and is 531 feet above sea level and this is in the Eastern Time Zone, ZIP code 40110. A large portion of Clermont consists of the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, Clermont is home to the famous Jim Beam distillery, and Bullitt County is a wet county. The Boy Scouts of America Camp Crooked Creek, which is associated with the Lincoln Heritage Council, is located in Clermont. The area was recognized by the USGS on September 20,1979. U. S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System, Clermont, KY
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Alcohol by volume
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Alcohol by volume is a standard measure of how much alcohol is contained in a given volume of an alcoholic beverage. It is defined as the number of millilitres of pure ethanol present in 100 millilitres of solution at 20 °C, the number of millilitres of pure ethanol is the mass of the ethanol divided by its density at 20 °C, which is 0.78924 g/ml. The ABV standard is used worldwide, the International Organization of Legal Metrology has tables of density of water–ethanol mixtures at different concentrations and temperatures. In some countries, such as the U. K and France, alcohol by volume is referred to as degrees Gay-Lussac and this results in the slight difference in marked % noted later in this article. Mixing two solutions of alcohol of different strengths usually causes a change in volume, mixing pure water with a solution less than 24% by mass causes a slight increase in total volume, whereas the mixing of two solutions above 24% causes a decrease in volume. The phenomenon of volume due to mixing dissimilar solutions is called partial molar volume. Details about typical amounts of alcohol contained in various beverages can be found in the articles about them. Another way of specifying the amount of alcohol is alcohol proof, for example, 40% abv is 80 proof in the US and 70 proof in the UK. However, since 1980, alcohol proof in the UK has been replaced by abv as a measure of alcohol content, in the United States, a few states regulate and tax alcoholic beverages according to alcohol by weight, expressed as a percentage of total mass. Some brewers print the ABW on beer containers, particularly on low-point versions of domestic beer brands. However, because of the miscibility of alcohol and water, the factor is not constant. 100% ABW, of course, is equivalent to 100% ABV, during the production of wine and beer, yeast is added to a sugary solution. During fermentation, the yeasts consume the sugars and produce alcohol, the density of sugar in water is greater than the density of alcohol in water. A hydrometer is used to measure the change in gravity of the solution before. The volume of alcohol in the solution can then be estimated, there are a number of empirical formulae which brewers and winemakers use to estimate the alcohol content of the liquor made. The simplest method for wine has been described by English author C. J. J, the number 0.7936 is the specific gravity of a 100% ethanol solution. The difference between the starting SG and the final SG measures the specific gravity lost to CO2 release
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Alcohol proof
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Alcohol proof is a measure of the content of ethanol in an alcoholic beverage. The term was used in the United Kingdom and was equal to about 1.75 times the alcohol by volume. The UK now uses the ABV standard instead of alcohol proof, in the United States, alcohol proof is defined as twice the percentage of ABV. The measurement of alcohol content and the statement of content on bottles of alcoholic beverages is regulated by law in many countries, the term proof dates back to 16th century England, when spirits were taxed at different rates depending on their alcohol content. Spirits were tested by soaking a pellet of gunpowder in them, if the gunpowder could still burn, the spirits were rated above proof and taxed at a higher rate. As gunpowder would not burn if soaked in rum that contained less than 57. 15% ABV, the gunpowder test was officially replaced by a specific-gravity test in 1816. From the 18th century until 1 January 1980, the UK measured alcohol content by proof spirit, defined as spirit with a gravity of 12⁄13 that of water, or 923 kg/m3, the value 57. 15% is very close to the fraction 4⁄7 =0.5714. Thus, the amounts to declaring that 100° proof spirit has an ABV of 4⁄7. From this, it follows that to convert the ABV to degrees proof, thus pure, 100% alcohol will have 100× = 175° proof, and a spirit containing 40% ABV will have 40× = 70° proof. The proof system in the United States was established around 1848 and was based on percent alcohol rather than specific gravity, 50% alcohol was defined as 100 proof. The use of proof as a measure of alcohol content is now mostly historical, today, liquor is sold in most locations with labels that state its alcohol content as its percentage of alcohol by volume. The European Union follows recommendations of the International Organization of Legal Metrology, oIMLs International Recommendation No.22 provides standards for measuring alcohol strength by volume and by mass. The document does not address alcohol proof or the labeling of bottles, since 1 January 1980, the United Kingdom has used the ABV standard to measure alcohol content, as prescribed by the European Union. The OIML system measures alcohol strength as a percentage of alcohol by volume at a temperature of 20 °C and it replaced the Sikes system of measuring the proof strength of spirits, which had been used in Britain for over 160 years. Britain, which used to use the Sikes scale to display proof and this scale, for all intents and purposes the same as the Gay-Lussac scale previously used by much of mainland Europe, was adopted by all the countries in the European Community in 1980. Using the OIML scale or the Gay-Lussac scale is essentially the same as measuring alcohol by volume except that the figures are expressed in degrees, in the United States, alcohol content is measured in terms of the percentage of alcohol by volume. The Code of Federal Regulations requires that liquor labels must state the percentage of ABV, the regulation permits, but does not require, a statement of the proof provided that it is printed close to the ABV number. For bottled spirits over 100 mL containing no solids, actual alcohol content is allowed to vary within 0. 15% of ABV stated on the label, alcohol proof in the United States is defined as twice the percentage of alcohol by volume
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Old Grand-Dad
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Old Grand-Dad is a brand of bourbon whiskey distilled at the Jim Beam Plant in Clermont, Kentucky. The brand was created by Raymond B, Hayden and named after his grandfather Basil Hayden, Sr. who was a well known distiller during his lifetime. A fanciful portrait of Hayden Sr. is depicted on the front of each bottle, today, it is owned and produced by Beam Suntory. As of December 2015, Old Grand-Dad and Old Overholt – both of which are Beam Suntory brands – are marketed together as The Olds. The Hayden familys first commercial distillery was created in 1840, during prohibition, the company produced medicinal whiskey for sick, blind, and lame patients. National Distillers had facilities in Cincinnati, Ohio and Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1987, National Distillers Group sold the spirits business to the Fortune Brands holding company, which became Beam Inc. Today, Old Grand-Dad is one of the ten best-selling straight whiskeys and it comes in three different bottling proofs,80 proof,100 proof Bottled In Bond, and 114 Barrel Proof in a short-height bottle gift box package. In 2013 the lower proof offering went from 86 proof to 80 proof, since 1992 Beam has also marketed another brand of Kentucky bourbon, Basil Haydens, named after the same person. Food critic Morgan Murphy said The sweet corn of this whiskey is hot on the lips but has a finish of vanilla. In Travels with Charley, John Steinbecks 1961 account of a road-trip across America, he stocks Old Grand-Dad on his truck and regularly offers a dollop to people he meets. Old Grand-Dad is featured prominently in the scenes of the film Bad Santa and in the Nick Stefanos novels by George P. Pelecanos. Former Pennsylvania State University football coach Joe Paternos son suggested that his father enjoyed Old Grand-Dad on the rocks, George Thorogood references Old Grand-Dad whiskey in his song I Drink Alone, in the lyrics. the only one who will hang out with me is my dear Old Grand-Dad. Old Grand-Dad is cited in the Lynyrd Skynyrd song Whiskey Rock-a-Roller saying, She likes to drink Old Grand-Dad, Old Grand-Dad is specified by James Bond in the novel Live and Let Die for his Old Fashioned. It is also mentioned in the Hank Williams, Jr. song Women Ive Never Had, I like sweet young things and Old Grand-Dad, in Cormac McCarthys Cities of the Plain novel, Old Grand-Dad is the drink of choice for many of the characters. In his book Truman, David G. McCullough writes extensively about President Harry S. Trumans love for bourbon and he further writes that the Presidents preferred drink was Old Grand-Dad on the rocks. In Robert P. Daviss 1976 novel The Pilot, Mike Hagen, the author Charles Bukowski frequently mentioned Old Grand-Dad in his stories. For example, in Post Office, the protagonist Chinaski buys Grandad for breakfast, in Hank Searls 1978 novelization for the film, Jaws 2, one of the attack victims drinks coffee laced with Old Grand-Dad to calm his nerves before going scuba diving. Kolt Racer Raynor, the character of Dalton Furys books Black Site and Tier One Wild
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Jim Beam
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Jim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey produced in Clermont, Kentucky, by Beam Suntory, a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings of Osaka, Japan. It is one of the best selling brands of bourbon in the world, since 1795, seven generations of the Beam family have been involved in whiskey production for the company that produces the brand, which was given the name Jim Beam in 1933 in honor of James B. Beam, who rebuilt the business after Prohibition ended, previously produced by the Beam family and later owned by the Fortune Brands holding company, the brand was purchased by Suntory Holdings in 2014. During the late 18th century, members of the Böhm family, johannes Reginald Beam was a farmer who began producing whiskey in the style that became known as bourbon. Jacob Beam sold his first barrels of corn whiskey around 1795, the whiskey was first called Old Jake Beam Sour Mash, and the distillery was known as Old Tub. David Beam took on his fathers responsibilities in 1820 at the age of 18, david M. Beam in 1854 moved the distillery to Nelson County to capitalize on the growing network of railroad lines connecting states. James Beauregard Beam managed the business before and after Prohibition, rebuilding the distillery in 1933 in Clermont, Kentucky. Beam Distilling Company was founded in 1935 by Harry L. Homel, Oliver Jacobson, H. Blum, jeremiah Beam started working at the Clear Springs distillery in 1913, later becoming the master distiller and overseeing operations at the new Clermont facility. Jeremiah Beam eventually gained full ownership and opened a distillery near Boston, Kentucky. Jeremiah later teamed up with childhood friend Jimberlain Joseph Quinn, to expand the enterprise. Booker Noe, birth name Frederick Booker Noe II, grandson of Jim Beam, was the Master Distiller at the Jim Beam Distillery for more than 40 years, working closely with Master Distiller Jerry Dalton. In 1987 Booker introduced his own namesake bourbon, Bookers, the companys first uncut, straight-from-the-barrel bourbon, fred Noe, birth name Frederick Booker Noe III, became the seventh generation Beam family distiller in 2007 and regularly travels for promotional purposes. The Beam family has played a major role in the history of the Heaven Hill Distillery. All of the Master Distillers at Heaven Hill since its founding have been members of the Beam family, the original Master Distiller at Heaven Hill was Joseph L. Beam, Jim Beams first cousin. He was followed by his son, Harry, who was followed by Earl Beam, Earl Beam was then succeeded by the current Heaven Hill Master Distillers, Parker Beam and his son, Craig Beam. In 1987, Jim Beam purchased National Brands, acquiring brands including Old Crow, Bourbon de Luxe, Old Taylor, Old Grand-Dad, Old Taylor was subsequently sold to the Sazerac Company. On August 4,2003, a fire destroyed a Jim Beam aging warehouse in Bardstown and it held about 19,000 barrels of bourbon. Flames rose more than 100 feet from the burning structure, burning bourbon spilled from the warehouse and set a nearby creek on fire
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West Overton, Pennsylvania
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West Overton is located approximately 40 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, in East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is on PA819 between the towns of Mount Pleasant and Scottdale and its latitude is 40. 117N and its longitude is -79. 564W. West Overton Village was established in 1800 by German Mennonites from Bucks County, today it operates as a museum complex and is an example of a 19th-century rural industrial village. It is the only pre-American Civil War village still intact in Pennsylvania, the museum has undergone a complete renovation and will focus on the Overholt industries of whiskey distillation, grist milling and coal and coke operations. The museum was scheduled to reopen for tours in August 2012 with the Overholt Homestead to reopen in June 2013, West Overton Historic District is a national historic district located at East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 19 contributing buildings in the village of West Overton and they are a collection of mid-19th century buildings in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It includes the Christian S. Overholt Store and House, Abraham Overholt Homestead, the springhouse of the Abraham Overholt Homestead is the birthplace of Henry Clay Frick. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, West Overton Museums website Frick Art & Historical Center website All of the following Historic American Buildings Survey records are filed under West Overton, Westmoreland County, PA, HABS No. PA-5654, West Overton,1 photo,3 measured drawings,43 data pages,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5655, Henry S. Overton House,1526 Frick Avenue,4 photos,7 measured drawings,15 data pages,1 photo caption page HABS No, pA-5657, Overholt Company Workers House B,2 photos,12 data pages,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5656, Christian S. Overholt Store & House,6 photos,6 measured drawings,13 data pages,1 photo caption page HABS No, pA-5658, Abraham Overholt House,10 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5658-A, Abraham Overholt House, Springhouse,3 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No, pA-5658-B, Abraham Overholt House, Smokehouse,2 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5658-C, Abraham Overholt House, Summerhouse & Shed,2 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No, pA-5658-D, Abraham Overholt House, South Stables & Hog Pen,2 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5659, A. & H. S. Overholt Company Distillery,7 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No, pA-5660, A. & H. S. Overholt Company Coke Over,1 photo,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5661-A, Abraham Overholt Farm, Farm House,2 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No, pA-5661-B, Abraham Overholt Farm, Large Barn,4 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5661-C, Abraham Overholt Farm, Barn,2 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No, pA-5661-D, Abraham Overholt Farm, Stables,2 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5662, Overholt Company Workers House C,2 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No, pA-5663, Overholt Company Workers House D,2 photos,1 photo caption page HABS No. PA-5664, Overholt Company Workers House F,2 photos,1 photo caption page
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Suntory Holdings
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Suntory Holdings Limited is a Japanese brewing and distilling company group. Established in 1899, it is one of the oldest companies in the distribution of alcoholic beverages in Japan and its business has expanded to other fields, and the company now also makes soft drinks and operates sandwich chains. With its 2014 acquisition of Beam, Inc. it has diversified internationally, Suntory is headquartered in Dojimahama 2-chome, Kita-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. Suntory was started by Torii Shinjiro, who first opened his store Torii Shoten in Osaka on February 1,1899, in 1907, the store began selling a sweet tasting red wine called Akadama Port Wine. The store became the Kotobukiya company in 1921 to further expand its business and in 1923, production began in December 1924 and five years later Suntory Whisky Shirofuda, the first single malt whisky made in Japan, was sold. Due to shortages during World War II, Kotobukiya was forced to halt its development of new products, but in 1946 it re-released Torys Whisky, in 1961, Kotobukiya launched the Drink Torys and Go to Hawaii campaign. At the time, a trip abroad was considered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, in 1963, Kotobukiya changed its name to Suntory, taken from the name of the whisky it produces. In the same year, Musashino Beer Factory began its production of the Suntory Beer, in 1997, the company became Japans sole bottler, distributor, and licensee of Pepsi products. On July 14,2009, Kirin announced that it was negotiating with Suntory on a merger, on February 8,2010, it was announced that negotiations between the two were terminated. In 2009 they acquired Orangina, the soft drink for 300 billion yen. On 2 July 2013 the company debuted on the Tokyo stock exchange, in January 2014, Suntory announced an agreement to buy the largest U. S. bourbon producer, Beam Inc. for US$16 billion. This deal would make Suntory the worlds third largest spirits maker, the acquisition was completed on April 30,2014, when it was also announced that Beam would be renamed as Beam Suntory. Also in January 2014, Suntory purchased the division of British GlaxoSmithKline. This included the brands Lucozade and Ribena, however, the deal did not include Horlicks, in 2003, Suntory acquired a 98. 5% equity holding in Florigene. Prior to this, Florigene had been a subsidiary of global agrochemicals giant Nufarm Limited since 1999. In July 2004, Suntory and Florigene scientists announced to the world the development of the first roses containing blue pigment and it will produce Suntory Oolong Tea, Boss and Orangina. Suntory and its various products are featured in the Ryū ga Gotoku/Yakuza series of games, Suntory was one of the first Asian companies to specifically employ American celebrities to market their product. One of the most notable is Sammy Davis, Jr. who appeared in a series of Suntory commercials in the early 1970s, in the late 1970s, Akira Kurosawa directed a series of commercials featuring American celebrities on the set of his film Kagemusha
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Osaka
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Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Japan. Historically a merchant city, Osaka has also known as the nations kitchen. Some of the earliest signs of habitation in the Osaka area at the Morinomiya ruins comprise shell mounds, sea oysters. It is believed that what is today the Uehonmachi area consisted of a land with an inland sea in the east. During the Yayoi period, permanent habitation on the plains grew as rice farming became popular, by the Kofun period, Osaka developed into a hub port connecting the region to the western part of Japan. The large numbers of increasingly larger tomb mounds found in the plains of Osaka are seen as evidence of political-power concentration, in 645, Emperor Kōtoku built his Naniwa Nagara-Toyosaki Palace in what is now Osaka, making it the capital of Japan. The city now known as Osaka was at this time referred to as Naniwa, although the capital was moved to Asuka in 655, Naniwa remained a vital connection, by land and sea, between Yamato, Korea, and China. Naniwa was declared the capital again in 744 by order of Emperor Shōmu, and remained so until 745, in 1496, Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists established their headquarters in the heavily fortified Ishiyama Hongan-ji, located directly on the site of the old Naniwa Imperial Palace. Oda Nobunaga began a siege campaign on the temple in 1570 which ultimately resulted in the surrender of the monks. Toyotomi Hideyoshi constructed Osaka Castle in its place in 1583, Osaka was long considered Japans primary economic center, with a large percentage of the population belonging to the merchant class. Over the course of the Edo period, Osaka grew into one of Japans major cities and returned to its ancient role as a lively and its popular culture was closely related to ukiyo-e depictions of life in Edo. By 1780 Osaka had cultivated a vibrant arts culture, as typified by its famous Kabuki, in 1837 Ōshio Heihachirō, a low-ranking samurai, led a peasant insurrection in response to the citys unwillingness to support the many poor and suffering families in the area. Approximately one-quarter of the city was razed before shogunal officials put down the rebellion, Osaka was opened to foreign trade by the government of the Bakufu at the same time as Hyōgo on 1 January 1868, just before the advent of the Boshin War and the Meiji Restoration. Osaka residents were stereotyped in Edo literature from at least the 18th century, jippenisha Ikku in 1802 depicted Osakans as stingy almost beyond belief. Edo writers aspired to samurai culture, and saw themselves as poor but generous, chaste, Edo writers by contrast saw zeeroku as obsequious apprentices, stingy, greedy, gluttonous, and lewd. The modern municipality was established in 1889 by government ordinance, with an area of 15 square kilometres, overlapping todays Chūō. Later, the city went through three major expansions to reach its current size of 223 square kilometres, Osaka was the industrial center most clearly defined in the development of capitalism in Japan. It became known as the Manchester of the Orient, the rapid industrialization attracted many Korean immigrants, who set up a life apart for themselves
