Southwestern Pennsylvania’s whiskey industry overflowed with more than 100 distilleries making rye whiskey between the 1880s and early 1900s, but they went dry when Prohibition took effect a century ago.
Source: The Tribune-Review
Prohibition thinned ranks of Western Pa. distilleries, breweries — but some survived
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