Myths about JP Wiser continue to proliferate: For his 200th birthday here are the facts to refute four of them.
1 From the beginning JP Wiser was a co-owner of the Prescott-based distillery, not his uncle’s employee.
2 JP Wiser probably did not create or produce Wiser’s Red Letter Rye
3 Wiser was not first to bottle whisky
4 Wiser’s sons, not Albert Whitney, took over the distillery; it was destroyed in 1912 and never made whisky again; Corby bought the land in 1920.
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