by bourbonv » Sat Jan 27, 2007 10:54 am
John,
Great photographs. For those that do not know, the reddish building in the first photgraph was the office of W L Weller and Sons after they purchased it from Bernheim Bros. around the turn of the 20th century. That scene is Main Street looking north toward the river, just east of the 2nd Street bridge.
Linn,
Your idea sounds simple but unfortunately it is not. In order to sell barrel proof whiskey from the barrel you would have to start changing laws on the local level, then the state level and finally the national level. I don't see it happening. Especially if Ann Northup was to become Governor of the state. She was no friend to the distilling industry as a congresswoman and I don't see her being any friendlier as governor.
Your idea is a grwat one for the consumer, but it would be resisted by too many politicians for it to ever happen.
Mike Veach
"Our people live almost exclusively on whiskey" - E H Taylor, Jr. 25 April 1873