If they are opened, it’s usually for some type of charitable auction or tasting to make sure other people enjoy them or appreciate them. From Prohibition, I probably have a dozen and probably another dozen from the ’40s. They look like you’ve opened them (because the volume is down), but they’re still unopened. They are mostly unopened and intact but some of them have lower fills in them because the sealing material was somewhat porous.
I’ve got some old whiskey - Prohibition-era bottles and bottles from the 1940s that date back to the World War II era.
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Full Prohibition-era liquor bottles (Chris Morris)ĭo you keep any special liquor in your office? It’s made from 100 percent copper, so it’ll last forever if I take care of it and keep it in that frame. I’d say this one is probably from around the Prohibition repeal, so 1920s or so. Occasionally we’ll give them out as awards and prizes because they’re quite expensive and quite valuable. How many master distillers before me touched it? I don’t know. When I became master distiller 17 or 18 years ago, I was awarded a very old Brown-Forman whiskey thief by the company. An antique whiskey thief (Chris Morris)ĭo you have anything historic from Brown-Forman? A third of Kentucky was named after him and I’ve got his signature on a tax document for the industry. He went on to help put down the Whiskey Rebellion. He was released and he accepted Charles Cornwallis’s surrender sword at Yorktown and then handed it to George Washington. Woodford died while he was a prisoner of the British, but Lincoln did not. He was a Revolutionary War general who captured by the British along with William Woodford, for whom Woodford Reserve is named. InsideHook: Do you have a favorite item in your office you like to show to other people?Ĭhris Morris: I have a tax document that was signed by Benjamin Lincoln, which is pretty cool. A signed 1803 wine tax import receipt (Chris Morris) Stuck at home like so many of us are during the lockdown, Morris took us on a virtual tour of his home office on the second floor of his Kentucky home to show off some of his favorite details. Almost a decade later, in 1997, Morris returned to Brown-Forman to begin training for the role of master distiller, a position he has held since 2003.Ī dyed-in-the-wool whiskey aficionado, the Louisville native authored the Society of Wine Educators Certified Spirits Specialist program, has served on the Kentucky Distillers Association and Kentucky Bourbon Festival Board of Directors, and is the chairman of the Order of the Writ Society. The seventh master distiller in the 150-year history of Brown-Forman, Morris began working at the company in 1976 as a trainee in the central lab, then parlayed that into a job at Glenmore Distilleries Company in 1988. One of three generations of his family to work with the legendary Brown-Forman spirits brand, Woodford Reserve master distiller Chris Morris has bourbon in his blood.
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