In November 2019, we will release Remus
Volstead Reserve Straight Bourbon Whiskey, a one-time, extremely limited, 14 year old bottled-in-bond offering.
They were Arthur Capper, who served as governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 and then as a senator from 1919 to 1949, and Andrew
Volstead, a congressman from Minnesota who had recently become chair of the House Judiciary Committee.
98 YEARS AGO (1919) The US Congress passed the
Volstead Act, paving the way for Prohibition in January, with a ban on producing and selling intoxicating liquor.
Other than stimulating the growth of organized crime and NASCAR racing, the Eighteenth Amendment and the
Volstead Act did not produce a lasting impact on American history.
Previous histories of the war between liquor smugglers and the Dry Navy during the
Volstead Era (1920-33) have relied on anecdotes and personal recollections, says Funderburg, but her account is drawn from legal records, scholarly sources, newspaper archives, and the US Coast Guard files at the National Archives and Records Administration.
The product portfolio includes several pioneering brands including the grain to glass Westward Oregon Single Malt Whiskey, Krogstad Aquavit, and
Volstead Vodka.
On Valentine's Day 1920, less than a month after Prohibition began, a raid to enforce the
Volstead Act ignited a firestorm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
The Bronfman family expanded their liquor business by supplying the US market after the
Volstead Act shut down the (legal) industry there.
Remarks by Representative
Volstead and Senator Hitchcock indicate
Officially it was the Eighteenth Amendment, or the
Volstead Act.