Gary has made some comment about "yellow whiskey" being used to describe Tennessee whiskey and comments upon some Dickel he had at the Bourbon Festival. While his comments are interesting I think he might be a little confused as to exactly what he had that night (or maybe not, so Gary feel free to correct me if I am wrong) and I thought some history might help here.
George Dickel started as a wholesale liquor company inn Nashville who found the best whisky came from the Cascade Hollow distillery in Tulahoma, so he bought all of their production and eventually the distillery. The distillery ran until prohibition came to Tennessee in 1910 and they were forced to move their operation to Louisville. There they signed a contract to use the Stitzel distillery on days when Stitzel was not making whiskey and even put in the charcoal leaching vats to make their whisky.
During prohibition the Stitzel distillery and W L Weller and Sons sold their whiskey as a medicinal whiskey, but the Shwab family still owned the whisky and the trademarks. After prohibition the brand was sold to Schenley who continued to make Cascade bourbon and George A Dickel's Cascade Corn whisky. In the late 50's, after Schenley failed to purchase Jack Daniel's, they decided to rebuild the Cascade distillery and introduced George Dickel, dropping the Cascade name because of the association of the name with a bourbon over the past 20 years. I think Gary is decribing the Corn Whiskey as the product he drank at the Festival. I have seen pre-prohibition Cascade and it is as red as any bourbon. I have seen (and drank) post prohibition Cascade bourbon and it too is red. I have seen, but not tried the George A Dickel Cascade Corn whiskey and it is more yellow than red.
Mike Veach