(NOTE: FOUNDERS ARE LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
Scotland Whiskey Founders
Misc. Scotch Founders
The South Central States Region includes the States of: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas
Below are links to Whiskey Founders that have made huge contributions to the growth of the South Central States Region’s Whiskey Industry. These may have been historical figures that lived long ago before prohibition or may be living leaders that have advanced the cause of the industry as a whole. Craft Whiskey has now been its own whiskey category for years.
1
Andreas Coffee
In 1830, Aeneas Coffey applied for a patent, and it is was granted in early 1831. The basic idea was straightforward in principle and profound in impact: instead of distilling in batches of heat, boil, condense, empty, clean, repeat, Coffey’s apparatus allowed distillation to proceed continuously.
2
Charles Chree Diog
By 1890, Charles Doig was running his own practice, specializing in distilleries at exactly the right historical moment. Scotland, and specifically Speyside, was in a period of great expansion; new distilleries planned from scratch, older sites rebuilt, capacities pushed upward as demand for Scotch increased worldwide.
3
Robert Stein
In 1826, Robert Stein patented his revolutionary whisky still. With the apparatus, he had devised a method of near-continuous distillation. This meant spirit could be produced much faster and more efficiently than had previously been the case with traditional pot stills, largely because pot stills had to be cleaned and recharged between batches.