MICHTER'S

Originally known as Shenk’s and later as Bomberger’s, the whiskey company which ultimately became known as Michter’s was founded by John Shenk, a Swiss Mennonite farmer, in Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania in 1753 produciing whiskey from rye grain, a favourite local crop in the Pennsylvania Blue Mountain Valley where the distillery was located. According to local historical lore, this particular rye whiskey was so valued that when the Revolutionary War broke out, General George Washington visited the distillery and purchased whiskey to fortify his men as they hunkered down in their camp through the long, brutal winter at Valley Forge.
Over 200 years later, management would say Michter's was “the whiskey that warmed the American Revolution”