Larceny Barrel Proof!

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• History of distillery
• John E Fitzgerald
  • Worked as a treasury agent guarding the bonded warehouses
  • With access to great bottles, he would sneak in at night and steal sips of whiskey from the barrels.
  • When it came time to bottle, some barrels were lighter than others and some thought them to be good barrels
    • These became known as fitzgerald barrels, and later bottled and sold as old fitzgerald bottled in bond
• Truth in story
  • It is said that fitz had a private still that he sold only to select people
    • In a later biography we learn he never distilled himself, but his work as a treasury agent has been proved
• Heaven hill
  • Heaven hill acquired old fitz in 1999
  • They released larceny in 2012 
    • Named after the act that made John Fitzgerald famous
• History of heaven hill Distillery
  • 1934-The 5 Shapira Brothers were approached by Joseph L Beam and other investors to start a distillery
    • Joseph Beam was the first master distiller, and all master distillers since have been members of the beam family
  • 12/13/1935, first barrels began to be filled, Bourbon Falls is the first brand
  • 1996, Massive fire destroys the still and 90,000 barrels.  At one time the creek that supplied the water was on fire for 2 miles
  • Until 1999 brown-forman and jim beam let them use their facilities
  • In 1999 heaven hill purchased the Bernheim distillery and could start production again
• The name heaven hill
  • Named after the former owner of the distillery site, William Heavenhill
    • Legend is he was born in 1783 under a waterfall during an indian attack
• The bottle
  • 6 years old 
  • 68% corn, 20% wheat, 12% malted barley

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