Given the limited availability of ice during Prohibition years, whiskey was often drunk neat (without ice). This gave popular contemporary reference to the historical idiom “The real McCoy”, signifying something as being the genuine article. McCoy earned his honorable reputation as a rumrunner through consistently selling his merchandise unadulterated. When most Prohibition alcohols were diluted to maximize profit, Captain William S. The MAN show during New York’s Men’s Market Week 2014 will be spotlighting this rare and refined Cutty Sark “Prohibition Edition” whiskey for the first time at Le Baron in NYC.
Matured in American oak casks and non‐chill filtered, this 100 proof whiskey gives a super smooth finish with lingering warmth and subtle hints of spice. Cutty Sark “Prohibition Edition” is a handcrafted, small batch Scotch blended from top quality grain and single malt whiskies. Reinstated with their right to intoxicate, Prohibition ended in 1933, remaining to this day the only Amendment to the United States Constitution to have ever been repealed.Ĭutty Sark celebrates this public victory by honoring one of Prohibition’s most notorious smugglers, Captain William S. Indulging their love of booze with such unanimous disregard for the law, the people reinforced the inevitable failure of Prohibition. As actual consumption was never illegal, the subsequent untaxed and inflated alcohol prices motivated immense investment in the party scene, giving rise to an era of celebration that appears in hindsight as a decadent public bender. The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, was passed into law in 1920 outlawing the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages.
However, the introduction of a nationwide income tax dissolved this dependence and paved the way for over a decade of merriment and mayhem. The excise tax on alcohol was such a significant contributor to the US economy that it seemed the pietistic efforts of the teetotaling Anti-Saloon League would remain in vain. The New York Whiskey Club presents Cutty Sark “Prohibition Edition”.
Prohibition in the US caused a popular tantrum that resulted in an era of decadence and disregard that still captures the public imagination.
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