George Washington's Whiskey Sells Out

(ABC) Just 213 years after George Washington started distilling his rye whiskey, it has once again hit the market. A nearly 15-year process of research and archeology allowed historians at Mount Vernon to recreate the first president's whiskey recipe. The distillery, just three miles from Mount Vernon outside of Alexandria, Va. opened for business after the Virginia General Assembly approved sales in small amounts, selling out all 471 bottles at $85 dollars a pop. Continued

Image: Moonshine still recently confiscated by the Internal Revenue Bureau photographed at the Treasury Department, between 1921 and 1932 (Library of Congress).