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their different perspectives on
why do we do this project here
making whiskey in Melbourne and
number one for those of us who
make it it's an incredible
opportunity as historians to be
involved in doing this the real
way the old way we gained a lot
from that and it helps us become
better historic interpreters
secondly it brings a lot of
attention to Mount Vernon people
are interested in Washington and
the whiskey story in the late
18th century the distillation
equipment was essentially a
piece of farm equipment every
farm had had a set and George
Washington's was no different at
45 farms I think it was on the
side and one really nice size to
still making whiskey at Mount
Vernon is always a bit of a
challenge because we choose to
continue to use
eighteenth-century means that
matter and mostly just
back-breaking manual labor start
out we have to get thirty
gallons of boiling water into
the match time and that's
accomplished by by a conga line
of people that take turns epic
would bucket in the boiler and
caramel water over the dam
panama's time and storing the
grains and it's an incredibly
manual procedures we have a long
handled bowl and it's very much
like a rolling action if you
could imagine the growing a
rowboat through then we've gotta
get a bucket brigades to get it
out of the fermenters and over
to the still bucket brigades to
get it out of the still and send
that over to the farm there is
just a lot of hard stuff around
here that's just not done
anymore and and modern
historians because the advent of
pipes and pumps I think we got a
new perspective on the lives of
the people that worked here in
the 17 nineties
we run the numbers a lot and
look at what we did in about two
weeks time and we made about a
hundred and thirty four gallons
of whiskey
in 1799 them at eleven thousand
gallons which means they had to
make about thirty to fifty
gallons a day I used to think
that it was going to be random
is going to be hit and miss it
wasn't that good but after the
first round of making George
Washington's Rai Ken two
completely different conclusion
caused by golly I drink that
stuff out of the still all day
long