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George Washington, the Revolutionary King of Rye Whiskey

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Washington was not just a patriot, war hero, and the first commander-and-chief. He also owned the U.S.’s biggest rye whiskey distillery on his Mount Vernon estate in Virginia.

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Noah Rothbaum

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