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I am just now watching Wagon Train on Youtube, of course in a bar scene they are drinking whisky. Any idea just what brands of the firewater would have been sold back then?

local home made, panther piss comes to mind

Red Eye! Seriously, a lot of the whisky back then was rye whisky. Prohibition killed off a lot of the old brands.

And a lot of it was contaminated with lead, arsenic, and other nasty stuff. Blind drunk was not a euphemism. Nor was dead drunk. Much of it wasn't barrel aged. Just a mix of raw alcohol (ethanol and even the deadly methanol) plus some kind of coloring and flavoring. True rot gut, because it did.

The type of whiskey produced is largely geographical and the cheapest or most plentiful grain in the region or that which could be shipped to same.

You could have just typed Scotch.

I like this, definitely not modern bourbon.
Mello corn

Turn of the century. (J Reiger), (Alantic& Pacfic), (Old Quaker Club, Rye Rosenham bros), were national labels. Most was shipped in barrels and then had private labels of local sellers. GW

That was funny. I don't care who you are.

Anyone besides me and Kaywoodie ever see Gary Cooper and Walter Brennan in "The Westener"? Brennan plays Judge Roy Bean. There is a great but very quick shot of spilled local whiskey eating away at the bar surface.

Old Crow has been around a long time.

I've seen it, but it was years ago.

Old Crow. also, Kessler from Leadville Colorado.

Damn, Scott! I liked good Scotch! Probably still would. Poor Scotch come under the panther piss label.

I've never liked Bourbon of any sort.

I love my scotch but that was damn funny

They did not have too many delivery trucks back then. They did have a few wagons usually from with in the state. Whisky was brewed local and then distributed to who buy it. Then the whisky was watered down to make a larger profit. That is why they always wanted the good stuff not the stuff served to Indians.

Scotch knows..

A couple of things, the whiskey tasted so bad sweet fruity drinks were invented. Read a recipe for whisky where they dropped a couple chunks of plug chew in to give it color and flavor.

Good whiskey isn't any harder to make than good bread.
Back in the day there was some very good bakers--same with distillers.
If it weren't for govt intervention good whiskey wouldn't cost anymore than a loaf of bread

First you have to determine if you are talking about "whisky" or "whiskey". I'm not being insulting but the difference is an important one especially pertaining to the question.