Mixing It Up With Whiskey

April, 1978

Now that everyone—except a few gin diehards and the outreachers who are into white rum or tequila—is drinking vodka, whiskey is passé, right? Don't you believe it. The U.S. has been a whiskey-drinking country almost since its inception. Bourbon makers often remind us that their product was "born with the Constitution," in 1789. The fledgling nation's first full-scale insurrection, the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, was fought over an excise tax on distilled spirits imposed by Secretary of...