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From Medicine To Modern Revival: A History Of American Whiskey, In Labels
Many a book, blog and news article has been devoted to the topic of whiskey: the way it's aged, where to drink it, how to store it and serve it or pair it with food. But comparatively little attention has been paid to how whiskey is packaged.
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I do love to read about whiskey. I suspect aging is a lot of the reason it gets so much history involved with it. Not only does someone spend years thinking up a good story about it, as you see with the Diego Orphan Barrel products at the end of the article, but there's also so much that changes. The stuff I'm drinking now was first put in a barrel shortly after 9/11 and before the Recession, when the US was very different from today. Some of the rarer stuff in my cabinet was put in a barrel during the dot com boom. With history like that, it's hard not to be nostalgic.