by Kinsey Worker » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:19 am
Gary, I can not tell you what a thrill it was when my friends told me...we found something awesome for you! Needless to say, I tried it and found it to be one of the most flavorful Rye Whiskeys I have ever had. It now sits with my collection to be tasted at special times. Not Knowing when it was put in the shelf in Maintaince, I can only say one thing...the bottom yr date is 1978. So, it sat in the Bottle house for 31 1/2 years waiting to be found and kept and enjoyed. Also, to Robot AZ & Kendel...Thanks for the Kind words. I try to make this as interesting as i can for the History of it all.
The one thing best of all it was not found by the younger people who just break in there to smash things. A little story back in late 2005...My Friend Don and I went into the open Explosion Proof Warehouse to find that the people that smash things had smashed some 1955 Old Hickory, Coffee Carafe, Bottled In Bond full bottles...that had been left behind. It was able to save some of the labels and put them on an unlabled one my Dad had, from when he worked there.
That is also how I got my Owners manuel for the carafe...telling you how to use it, once empty, to make Hot toddies with coffee and Old Hickory 80 & 100 Proof BIB.
I also that year, say that they smashed the only Full Quart of Pinwinnie Scotch Whiskey One that I have tried to get and try for many years! It is only sold in Europe now and was a Continental Original!
This is why I do what I can to find things before they can be destroyed. One day, My Friends saw people with bags full of Breaking tools there but they ran and got away. It is sad when the only thing people can do is destroy history.
By the way, there was at one time a whole case of the Old Hickory BIB In carafes, as my friend found the smashed case. I repaired it for him and found an original panel from another one and saved it to my collection. I have my mind on something else I want to get soon but, I will not say what it is...till they can get it for me, in fear that they may see it in my pictures and destroy it.
Once I get it...I will post it. I was very lucky they got me my Explosion proof Phone as they were trying to destroy it when they cut the wires and broke a place on the housing at the bottom trying to smash it.
I will be posting some pictures from last Sunday, now, just a few...then more later. I wonder how Heaven Hill Rittenhouse would compare to our Export? Myself, I would say ours would blow the doors off it but, I am very glad to know that just as they continued the use of Continental Distilling on their Bottles of Rittenhouse Rye that they continue the 80 proof Export 10 yr Rye!
We always had good terms with the great Distillers of KY and did much work for them and sometimes they did small batches of stuff for Us. Also, thanks for the Kind comments from others responding to my thread. It is a work of love doing this for the memory of Kinsey.
Gary and everyone else, here are a few shots in the Incoming Spirits Area.
It is my hope that my writtings and pictures help to Keep the memory of Publicker Industires, who I consider in its time to be the most prolific Distiller in its years of Operation and the Greatest Pa Distiller to ever operate.
Kinsey Worker -- Dave Z
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Kinsey The Unhurried Whiskey For Unhurried Moments
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- Scotch Whiskey Chiller near water tank platform
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- Looking up at the Plaform and square water surge tanks from floor
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- One of the water surge tanks
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- Top of one of the water surge tanks
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- Here is a shot of the piping going off the plaform which sits in the incoming spirits area
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- Close up of Whiskey Heater NO 2 Taken on Plaform that also held the Square Water Surge tanks
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- Platform in the incoming area I was fearless and climbed up Here we Have Whiskey Heaters NO.1,#2,#3 taken Sunday Oct 18, 2009 Water Surge tanks sit to the right
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