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George Washington's Whiskey For Sale?

Mount Vernon recreates Founding Father's rye whiskey recipe for the public.

The distillery, just three miles from Mount Vernon outside of Alexandria, Va. opened for business after the Virginia General Assembly approved sales in small amounts, selling out all 471 bottles at $85 dollars a pop.

Unlike whiskey made today, however, the general's batch wasn't aged. According to historians, the saying goes that Washington's whiskey was aged from the time it took to get from Mount Vernon to Alexandria for sale, all of a distance of eight miles....

Read entire article at ABC News