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Samuel Breitenbach

Rare Find; old sour mash yellow whiskey jug

Kenneth Burk dug up a large, yellow whiskey jug on his farm East of Hawesville recently. The writing on it reads: C.F. Breidenbach, Distiller of sour mash, handmade liquor. C.F. Breidenbach’s family and friends called him Charlie. He ran a riverboat out of Hawesville and had a distillery under the river bank, in a cave.…

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