George Washington's whiskey unearthed

Interesting read from CNN about George Washington's still:

At its peak, the distillery produced 11,000 gallons of liquor, which fetched the then-astronomical sum of $7,500.

"Washington was making what today would be called rye whiskey," White said. "It was about 60 percent rye, 35 percent corn and about 5 percent malted barley." Though it was probably distilled several times, White said modern distillers would consider it "white lightning, mad dog, moonshine" -- clear, young and sharp-tasting.

"We do think that he drank his own," she said in an interview. "They flavored quite a bit of the whiskey and we know that when Washington died in 1799 there was cinnamon whiskey stored in the cellar of Mount Vernon."

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