I’m not sure I understand the connection to prohibition. Light whiskey was an attempt to populate a new market niche made possible by a regulatory change during the summer of love. (Disclaimer: Galaxy was a Seagram’s product, and 2 years after its release I went to college on a scholarship underwritten by Seagram’s.)
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I am so sorry, it’s good!
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So what’s your frat?
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“Go on and take you a sip. You’ll see… But not for long!”
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I love you more than teddy bears!!!
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If we’re going to do whiskey/Star Trek tie-ins, one of my prized posessions is a Sarian Brandy bottle I found at a flea market (which was actually a bottle of George Dickel).
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The author’s assumption that the fancy labeling on medicinal whiskey implied that they weren’t intended to be medicinal at all betrays an ignorance of medicines at the time. It was an age of fancy labelling on all kinds of medicinal and quasi-medicinal products. Alcohol has been prescribed for a variety of conditions before, during, and after national Prohibition, sometimes in dry counties and states, and sometimes to justify a tipple to someone who couldn’t socially get away with it otherwise. Hospitals today will occasionally prescribe a beer for an alcoholic patient so that alcohol withdrawal doesn’t interfere with the condition they’re treating. I have prescription forms from the 30s with brand-specific indications: eg, one Bass Pale Ale.
If the book relies on conjecture as the pull quote does, it is poor history indeed.
Ironically, I never drank hard liquor in college. They didn’t seem to care.
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