Did America import its whiskey during the Wild West?

Most of today's Whiskey's brands we are told generally wouldn't taste very familiar to cowboys from the Old Wild West. ... read more

The "Wild West" only occurred on movie sets. Americans have been making their own whisky since the beginning of the nation (and well before although they were not Americans then). They developed their own style (Rye and Bourbon) but also imported liquor from places like Scotland and Ireland. read more

The Old West Whiskeys had the tendacy to taste more similar to today's inconsistent "boot leg" whiskey of poor quality, higher and cheaper grains like rye and worst of all a high fusel oil content which is not that pleasant a drink for me or most of us. read more

John Piper's saloon (serving the theater audience in its last few years) was a fairly nice place, but its meat did not equal the African American place. For drinks, the Irish had a slightly higher percentage of whiskey bottles, but differences in relative bottle quantities were slight at best. read more