Transcript for Founding Spirit: The Making of Washington's Whiskey at Mount Vernon

Hello welcome to top line -- Olivier -- of Yahoo! News and I'm David -- from eighty students are coming to you today from the distillery room at George Washington's fabled mountain Vernon estate. We're master distillers -- -- -- is making whiskey the way the father of our country did more than 200 years ago. Hey thanks for hosting us well thank you very much that walk us through what goes into a bottle of George Washington authentic which. But the first thing is we start out five boiling water and using -- -- People didn't believe that we think was appropriate or are are useful in making whiskey -- in fact the -- there. There for anti bacterial purposes put it very early in the process. And then -- bucket brigade. -- the -- the hot water and refer matters to. -- about three bushels for the grain in the grain as is George Washington's historic recipe for a 65% rise in 35% climb. Then let it cool down. At malt and Barley to it. Then let it cool down some more and then had. Proprietary yeast strain that -- format for about Florida. We'll get to build appropriately had enough time to bring out the quality whether -- 234 times. And one -- on what that -- -- that improve the product will be just like it was 2 o'clock there. -- we should -- the George Washington was the biggest distillers in America at the time and this building is actually where his distillery was. And it's been rebuilt. The reason we're able to do this though he had as scotsman who has as the Stiller right who was a pretty good no takers do you actually have his recipe the recipe with more forensically determined. I'm rather than having -- recipe directly. It was game by adding up all of the -- usage and then. Great feeling about it turned out that that ratio -- very nicely with what we know with the good Maryland right recipe for its time. For the got a marvelous job of the study before -- in order to get everything just perfect and and so everything as it sits now is right back where it was. Some of the ingredients have evolved over time. Obviously it's very appealing to think I'm having the same -- that. Maybe he had valley forge or maybe had you before putting on whiskey rebellion -- into the -- how do you know that you got it right. Because he wouldn't have made bad stuff and that and so the the proof is in the pudding it is a very tasty spread. Contrary what people might -- the other -- colonialism might have had. Rough edge spirit that this -- -- rather refined thirty them for being an -- the second thing is. The water is that a very dramatically over the overtime hops up and about very dramatically the ride. Interestingly -- because there hasn't been a lot of interest and hybrid -- -- and so the riot going to be too far off from what colonial -- The corn may be a little bit because there's obviously been a lot of hybrid I think Clark over the years. But because that faith is really from the ride this witness come from the -- I believe that this is they paid fair representation of what the problem with what. Why did Washington -- he was a businessman right he was a merchant hit a lot of activities that went off on the side here partly. It has to take care of the staff that live here. Partly to sell off other places and -- substantially. Large portion of the total revenue. Coming in from outside was derived from the facility -- I'm always -- fan I need to get to really important questions outlined. How do you get your hands on a bottle of this stuff and how would you recommend we drink. I would always recommend that you start with me. So that you can -- that the -- of the distillers and no ice no water no -- no water for the first set. After -- had the first set. That just the pace a little bit a lot of little that I. Or if you want to do something fun with that is what -- -- all book. And and let -- of what Manhattan out of it does that make -- through a -- and it is available. From time to time here at Mount Vernon you can come here that for two years have been trying to get a bond act act and unsuccessfully so much. -- growth thank you very much thank you could happen here. That's all the time we have for top line Ali knocks at Yahoo! News follow me on Twitter at -- knocks and -- David -- confined me it gave it underscores currently. And -- where we find this operation. You can find that it does that and fever you -- us all week -- news dot Yahoo.com and abcnews.com. -- ever click on the.

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