George Dickel

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George Dickel
legal form Diageo subsidiary
founding 1877
Seat 1950 Cascade Hollow Road, Normandy, Tennessee, USA
Branch spirits
Website http://www.dickel.com

The Cascade Hollow distillery reopened in 1958. The current building dates from this period.

George Dickel is the brand name of a Tennessee whiskey named after the German-American liquor dealer and whiskey distiller Georg Dickel , which is produced in Cascade Hollow (near Tullahoma ), Tennessee , USA . Today the brand belongs to the Diageo group. Two whiskeys are produced in the George Dickel distillery, namely George Dickel No. 8 and No. 12 Tennessee whiskey. No.8 has an alcohol content of 40 % vol. , No.12 has an alcohol content of 45% vol.

George Dickel uses the traditional Scottish spelling "whiskey" (instead of "whiskey"). Legend has it that this goes back to the fact that Dickel believed that his product achieved the same quality as the best Scotch whiskeys . The distillery is on the American Whiskey Trail and is approximately 15 miles from Jack Daniel’s Distillery.

history

Georg Adam Dickel, photographed by Carl Giers , Nashville

Georg Adam (George A.) Dickel was a businessman born on February 2, 1818 in Grünberg , Hessen-Darmstadt, who immigrated to the United States in 1844 and moved to Nashville , Tennessee around 1853 . From 1863, Dickel operated wholesaling whiskey there and also had a liquor store. In 1888 he acquired the right to bottle and market the entire whiskey of the Cascade Distillery, founded in 1877 , of which two-thirds belonged to his business partner Viktor Emmanuel Shwab (1847-1924) at that time. He produced his first whiskey in 1870.

After Dickel's death on June 11, 1894, his wife Augusta inherited his shares in the company. Contrary to the advice to sell everything, Augusta kept the shares until her death. She ran the company together with Shwab, who owned the Cascade Distillery. After Augusta's death, long-time business partner Shwab took sole control of the distillery. The prohibition in Tennessee forced the company in 1910 to buy their whiskey from Kentucky. In 1919 the company had to be completely closed due to the start of national prohibition.

After the end of Prohibition in 1933, Cascade Hollow Whiskey and the Dickel brand name parted ways for a time. Stitzel-Weller from Kentucky, who had already made whiskey before Dickel before Prohibition, now advertised their own Cascade Hollow Whiskey. The Shwab family sold the Dickel brand name to Schenley Industries , which operated Dickel Whiskey in their distillery in Frankfort (today: Buffalo Trace ). After 1958 legal changes allowed the production of whiskey in Cascade Hollow again, Schenley bought back the rights to the Cascade Hollow name from Stitzel-Wellter and began building a new distillery in Cascade Hollow. Although the whiskey is now being made in Tennessee again, the Cascade Hollow bottling facility closed a few years ago and the whiskey is now being driven in tank trucks to Louisville , Kentucky for bottling . Various mergers and sales have resulted in the George Dickel brand being part of Diageo.

After the American whiskey crisis between the late 1970s and 2000s, Diageo parted ways with almost all of its whiskey brands in 1999, keeping only George Dickel and IW Harper.

In 1999, Diageo also stopped marketing for George Dickel. The distillery was closed and George Dickel only sold old stocks. In 2002 Diageo resumed marketing, and the sales success was satisfactory enough for the group to reopen the distillery in 2003. It is operated under the direction of John Lunn.

Manufacturing

George Dickel Whiskey corresponds to the basic requirements of a Bourbon whiskey . As with these, the underlying grain mix consists of at least 51% corn, rye, and malted barley. After the fire, the whiskey is stored in new American oak barrels for at least four years. Similar to the other great Tennessee whiskey Jack Daniel’s , George Dickel undergoes charcoal filtration before storage. Unlike Jack Daniel's, George Dickel is cooled before this filtration. In terms of taste, George Dickel is even rounder and softer than Jack Daniel's.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Charles K. Cowdery: Bourbon, Straight - The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey . Made and Bottled in Kentucky, Chicago, Illinois 2004, ISBN 0-9758703-0-0 , pp. 120 .
  2. ^ 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. 146.
  3. ^ Charles K. Cowdery: Bourbon, Straight - The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey . Made and Bottled in Kentucky, Chicago, Illinois 2004, ISBN 0-9758703-0-0 , pp. 122 .
  4. ^ Charles K. Cowdery: Bourbon, Straight - The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey . Made and Bottled in Kentucky, Chicago, Illinois 2004, ISBN 0-9758703-0-0 , pp. 123 .
  5. ^ A b Charles K. Cowdery: Bourbon, Straight - The Uncut and Unfiltered Story of American Whiskey . Made and Bottled in Kentucky, Chicago, Illinois 2004, ISBN 0-9758703-0-0 , pp. 124 .

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Coordinates: 35 ° 26 ′ 18.9 "  N , 86 ° 14 ′ 41.2"  W.