Old Forester #infographic

Published by Web Desk Friday, October 2, 2015

Whisky was once one of the few medicines people had access to on the American frontier. But doctors kept running into quality issues. Since it was sold by the barrel, tavern keepers would often add ingredients to stretch their supply. When doctors prescribed whisky, they had no idea what they were giving their patients. Sometimes it contained benign ingredients such as water or prune juice, but sometimes it contained disgusting things like tobacco spit and rattlesnake heads. An enterprising young pharmaceutical salesman named George Garvin Brown started bottling safe whisky nearly 3 decades before there were any regulations. Learn more from this infographic!

Infographic by: oldforester.com

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