MARYLAND RYE: Straight from the Bottle
“Three drinks of rye whiskey would double the pleasure to be got out of Il Trovatore. Try it yourself.”
-H.L. Mencken
The Maryland State Archives, in collaboration with Case[werks], LLC is extending their exhibit about Maryland’s rye whiskey industry that thrived for centuries until the early 20th century. The exhibit features some of the really interesting – and funny – names, labels, and bottles that were features of the state’s distilleries, the last of which went out of business in the 1970s.