Whiskey Tangent

Whiskumentary - Prohibition | Part 4: We Haven’t Learned a Damn Thing


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Whiskeys: Old Crow • Old Grand-Dad • Basil Hayden’s • Knob Creek • Baker’s • Booker's • Knob Creek Single Barrel • Henry McKenna 10-Year Bourbon • Willet Family Estate Rye

Topics: Part 3 Recap • The state of the post-Prohibition whiskey industry (from a 1933 Fortune magazine article) • National Distillers Products Corporation owned half of all whiskey in America at the end of Prohibition • Ed steals Scott’s idea about drinking whatever the hell we want • The Enduring Legacy of Prohibition: A Discussion • Counties and towns where you still can’t buy alcohol today • States where you can’t buy alcohol on holidays • Get your shit together Mississippi! • Women actually gained rights during Prohibition #fuckthecorset • The War on Drugs is worse than Prohibition ever was • How to stop gang wars with saltwater taffy • Utah serves high-alcohol beer at room temperature • Luxembourg is the #1 alcohol-consuming country • Organized crime and speakeasies are still with us today • We Haven’t Learn a Damn Thing: An Essay

Music Credits: Ain’t Nobody’s Business by Sara Martin (1922, Public Domain) • Whiskey on the Mississippi by Kevin MacLeod | Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io | License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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