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What Did America's First Bourbons Taste Like?

Summary by VinePair
I’ll never forget how longtime bar owner and spirits buyer Thad Vogler referred to bourbon in his wonderful 2017 memoir “By the Smoke and the Smell: My Search for the Rare and Sublime on the Spirits Trail”: “Sweet oak juice.” Thanks to the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897 and further U.S. regulations passed after Prohibition, bourbon has been made pretty much exactly the same way — from at least 51 percent corn aged in new charred oak containers — fo…
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VinePair broke the news in on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.
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