Canadian Club
| Canadian Club | |
|---|---|
| country | Canada |
| Type | Canadian blend |
| status | active |
| owner | Beam Suntory |
| Founded | 1858 |
| founder | Hiram Walker |
| Website | www.canadianclubwhisky.com |
Canadian Club is a Canadian whiskey .
At the start of production in 1858 it was known as Hiram Walker's Club Whiskey. Canadian Club (so called since 1884) is the most commercially successful whiskey from Canada . The blend ("Blended Canadian Whiskey") is now sold in more than 150 countries.
history
As in the USA, the settlers of that time in Canada made their first attempts at burning in the 17th century, especially with rye. In contrast, whiskey production in Canada has long been overshadowed by US. This only changed around 1860 when the American Hiram Walker, who came from Douglas (Massachusetts), immigrated and founded his first distillery in Ontario - in what would later become Walkersville . Hiram Walker made his name a brand and printed “Hiram Walker” on his kegs and bottles. This was a kind of revolution in brand strategy at the time. Walker was particularly popular in clubs and restaurants . Walker then added the name "Club" to his product. In the 1880s, Walker expanded his delivery area to the United States . Walker had an incredible success there too, whereupon the American whiskey manufacturers forced him to label his products with the designation "Canadian". From then on his whiskey was called "Canadian Club". The Prohibition in 1919 in the US was a unique opportunity for Canadian whiskey. Because of this success and its fame, the whiskey was offered in several countries.
Walker's company was bought out in 1987 by Allied Lyons , a British company, which shortly thereafter merged with the Spanish group of companies (Allied) Domecq .
sorts
- Canadian Club 6 Years Old / Canadian Club Premium: Is the most famous and best-selling whiskey. Distributed in more than 150 countries such as New Zealand and Australia.
- Canadian Club Reserve
- Canadian Club Classic: 12 year old whiskey
- Canadian Club 100 Proof
- Canadian Club Sherry Cask
- Canadian Club Dry: Sales started in Australia in 2001. Is a ready-mixed six-year-old whiskey with ginger ale.
literature
- Charles MacLean (Ed.): Whiskey. World Guide, Regions, Distillers, Malts, Blends, Tasting Notes. Dorling Kindersley, London et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7566-3349-3 .
- Walter Schobert: The whiskey dictionary. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 978-3-596-15868-3 .
- Gilbert Delos: Les Whiskeys du Monde. Translation from French: Karin-Jutta Hofmann: Whiskey from all over the world. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-442-7 , p. 128 f. and 132 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gilbert Delos: Les Whiskeys du Monde. Translation from French: Karin-Jutta Hofmann: Whiskey from all over the world. Karl Müller, Erlangen 1998, ISBN 3-86070-442-7 , p. 133.