June 20, 2024
Windsor Canadian!
- History of distillery
- Alberta Distillers Limited
- Started in 1946 by Frank Mchahon and Max bell
- Ranch hands deserve great whisky at a great price
- Frank Mchahon
- Oilman. First to go into western canada to look for oil and discover it.
- He was also a race horse owner and owned Majestic prince, winner of the Kentucky derby and Preakness in 1969
- He seems to have been the money man
- Max Bell
- Married Franks Brothers wifes sister
- Was a newspaper magnate and oilman
- Inherited his dads paper that was riddled with debt, was able to get it out of debt, buy more papers, and then get into the oil game
- Also owned race horses
- Won the irish derby with Meadow court
- ⅓ owner with Frank Mchahon and… bing crosby (Frank went to college with Bing at Gonzaga
- George Conrad Reifel
- Brought on shortly after
- Brewer and distiller who worked in Japan to start the anglo japanese brewing company
- The Why is not stated, but there is a distillation process that goes into oil as well, so that may have been part of the connection
- Built outside of calgary on 23 acres
- By 1957 had 3 heat controlled warehouses and 100,000 aging barrels on 28 acres
- After alberta Distillers Limited
- 1967 purchased by National distillers and chemical corp
- Expanded to 600,000 barrels on 42 acres
- One of few warehouses in canada that can age both rack and pallet style
- Has 2 rail spurs and can ship out and receive in tankers
- They decided to sell when standard and poors gave a negative outlook for whiskey
- 1986 purchased by american brands
- Renamed to fortune brands in 1997
- Split in 2011 to fortune brands home and security and Beam Inc
- Beam purchased by Suntory
- 1967 purchased by National distillers and chemical corp
- The juice
- 100% prairie rye whiskey (unmalted)
- Ground into a flour at the distillery using a hammer mill
- Distilled using continuous distillation then a pot still
- 3 years old
- Ex-bourbon barrels
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