Tag: Speakeasy

Speakeasy Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 94.4 proof/750ml, no age statement $30 suggested retail The story: The label may say this is bottled by the Bardstown Club Distilling Co., but that’s one of many fictitious distillery names used by Willett Distillery….

The word “speakeasy,” first used to describe an unlicensed saloon around 1890, is the combination of the words speak + easy, from the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not…